One of the difficulties with developing hybrid apps is passing data between views and persisting information between app sessions. Minimongo is an implementation of a MongoDB like database that can run within the browser. The database can be stored in memory, in IndexedDB (browser based storage), or persisted with SQLite using the Cordova plugin for […]
Category: Cordova (Phonegap)
Developing native apps that work across the iOS and Android platforms is difficult enough by itself, and with PWA’s it can be even more challenging to account for the differences between each browser and platform. Capacitor is an open source library from the folks behind the Ionic framework that changes that providing a javascript framework […]
Late last year I mentioned an open source project called Ratchet that provides HTML/CSS/Javascript components for quickly prototyping iOS apps. Here’s an extensive example of a To-Do list app from Tim Badolato that uses Ratchet for the user interface. The To-Do list app also features an online backend utilizing Parse, and can be dropped right into […]
Previously I mentioned a set of examples demonstrating how have a Cordova (Phonegap) Cleaver component as a modal view within an iOS Objective-C app (which unfortunately have been removed from Github). There are many potential advantages to doing this for both Phonegap and Objective-C developers, and Holly Schinsky has created an in-depth tutorial. Special Offer – […]
In the past I mentioned an excellent set of beginner Phonegap tutorials, but one of the topics that was not covered was the compass. I came across a few examples, but there seemed to be issues with iOS devices. So here’s a great iOS tested working compass example with a spinning face created with Cordova […]
For several versions now (Since v1.4.0) it’s been possible to use Cordova (Phonegap) embedded as a component within iOS Xcode projects – with component being named “Cleaver”. Cordova projects themselves actually use Cleaver. Since many things are easier to do with html5/css/javascript vs. Objective-C and creating plugins for Cordova can take up valuable time hybrid […]