Want to use Android’s Roboto Font? Check this post.Often we developers under-estimate the value that a proper font adds to the look and feel of our apps. We are usually OK with using the system font. The problem with doing this in a PhoneGap app is that the system font can look very different from […]
Read more "Using Google Fonts in a PhoneGap App"If you are a long-time PhoneGap developer like me, you may have missed a release note somewhere like I did. When PhoneGap released version 2.0, they dropped support for Xcode templates. While that sounds like a bad thing, it wasn’t. The templates never seemed to live up to their promise, plus it probably wasn’t easy […]
Read more "Removing Obsolete "Cordova-based (pre 2.0)" template from Xcode"In my next post I will show how to make the Twitter API v1.1 client run on Windows Phone 8. Once again we will use ChocolateChip-UI to get that great WP8 look and feel. Porting this will be so easy it make you wonder why you haven’t ported all of your PhoneGap apps to WP8. […]
Read more "PREVIEW: WP8, PhoneGap 3.0+ and Twitter API 1.1 – part 1.5: User Timelines"Want an easy PhoneGap app? Check out this post.In a previous post I showed how to use Twitter’s application-only authentication to gain access to a user’s timeline via API version 1.1. Now it is time to show some love to my PhoneGap friends as well. Here is the complete code to access a user’s timeline. […]
Read more "PhoneGap 3.0+ and Twitter API 1.1 – part 1: User Timelines"See the finished post is here.I am currently working my next post which is calling the Twitter API v1.1 from PhoneGap/Cordova. I just got the code executing, but I still need to do some clean up. This post is only a preview. In addition to PhoneGap, I also use the following open source packages: jQuery, […]
Read more "Calling Twitter API v1.1 from PhoneGap (preview)"This is the second article in this series. The first post, Android Twitter API 1.1 App, should be read first. As stated in the first article, you will need your own consumer key and secret. These are available from dev.twitter.com for free. The app described in the article will not work without the key and […]
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