Apache Cordova (formerly known as PhoneGap). One of many HTML, CSS and Javascript frameworks that allows you to build a nearly native-like application for many platforms, including Android, iOS, Windows, Linux and sometimes more.
Adding a mobile ads to monetize your mobile applications is a quite easy task, when you’re compiling your applications locally. And there were many articles written about this (like the one at PhoneGap Wiki).
But, when you compile in-the-cloud, using PhoneGap Build only, things are getting much more complicated.
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This is just as quick as possible example on getting you to the subject, without unnecessary blah, blah. Only pure detail on how to sent AJAX / JSON calls (cross-domain!) from your PhoneGap application. With references to other intresting and more comprehensive sources in the end.
BTW: You don’t even need a response server ready to get started! Example is based on JSON Test — Simple testing for JSON-based applications service.
This article assumes that you’re using jQuery in PhoneGap application.
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If you ever encounter problem, that you can’t update (on your mobile device) applicatation compiled with PhoneGap or PhoneGap Build, first what you should do, is to try to uninstall it and then perform fresh install.
If that succeed, any following updates should run without problems.
This is caused, by PhoneGap version change (either manually, if you’re building by-hand, or automatically, if you’re building using PhoneGap Build). This is one of documented bugs in PhoneGap and hasn’t been fixed as of writing this article.
Ever since PhoneGap 2.1.0, every application build with PhoneGap Build always opens all links in WebView on Android. No matter what configuration changes has been done. This is a reported issue, but though we already have PhoneGap 2.4.0, nothing has been actually done around this.
Details and some workaround follows.
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This article shows an example, how to respond, when user of your mobile application taps on Back button and how to exit application, after getting user confirmation, that he or she is willing to do so. It also explains, why you shouldn’t do it at all, if you plan to ship your application to multiple platforms, including Apple iOS.
Since PhoneGap is used to build mobile applications for many destination platforms, out of one source files package, and since each platform contains many mobile devices, with different screens sizes and orientations, it is fairly hard task to design set of mobile application icons and splash screens to suit all needs.
This post is meant to help you with solving this problem, but it is nothing more than a bunch of links to an external sources plus some comments.
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There are various things you have to consider, when developing a PhoneGap application, if you want to control when and how your application’s splash screen will be shown or hidden. This post summarizes all my knowledge in this area. Most information presented here are obvious to more experienced PhoneGap developers, so this post works more like memo to myself.
When I first time checked PhoneGap I immediatelly felt in love with it. That was something just amazing and nearly impossible. Use well known HTML5, CSS and JavaScript to build mobile applications with direct out-of-the-box support for eight different mobile apps platforms? No Java, no Objective-C? Hard to believe!
But it was true… Then I moved to famous Getting Started Guides and actually died! Oh, my f*king goodness! Eclipse? Insane number of SDKs? And then PhoneGap Build has been born and my soul has been saved! :]
Here you have three different pages, each holding links to 25+ beautiful icons sets:
There are 109 total icons sets presented on these three webpages. Most of them are free. Some of them are devastating beautiful, some have medium quality. But, put together, makes a strong icon sets compilation, in which nearly anyone should find something interesting for his or her current project.
Usually mobile applications have a header and a footer, both of a fixed height, and remaining body, that fills the rest and contains entire application content. No matter if main application content is long enough to produce vertical scrollbar or not, header and footer are always visible and always have fixed height.
A layout like this can be build in pure CSS and HTML. Thus it is useful for PhoneGap applications developers.
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