Jesse MacFadyen has provided an update on the status of PhoneGap support for Windows Phone 8. The bottom line? There's a release candidate , and official support should come in version 2.3.0 due out the first week of January.
The HTC One X+ is my favorite smartphone (for the time being). It's an incremental improvement over the One X (which as previously noted I am a fan of), and it is fast, and lightweight, the screen is perfect, the battery life is good, HTC Sense is useful and lightweight ... all in all it really is...
If you haven't been able to attend any of the Create the Web Tour events in person, join us tomorrow December 20th for an online presentation . This is part of a new Adobe TechLive program (as explained here by Alan Greenblatt).
Mark Penfold has published .NET magazine's annual web tool roundup in The 20 best new tools for web design and development of 2012 . Among the winners are: Dreamweaver CS6 Edge Inspect Brackets PhoneGap
Christophe Coenraets has written a detailed step-by-step tutorial on Developing a PhoneGap Application . Christophe covers data storage, layout, integrating with the camera and contacts, layout and styling, transitions, native notification, and much more.
HTC features a nice built-in SMS backup / restore feature on its phones. From within the SMS app you can export messages to a .hbk file, and then you can import that file (on the same device or another) to restore. It's all explained in this support page . Simple, right? Well, nope! That page...
The folks over at Fig Leaf Software are offering a Free ColdFusion 10 jQuery Mobile Tutorial , a 50 page PDF with lessons and exercises.
Ray Camden has been experimenting with the new globalization support in PhoneGap 2.2, and has posted his findings . This one is an interesting read (despite the rather disturbing screenshots of cutting edge mobile apps rendering UI using bordered HTML tables circa the mid-90's).
PhoneGap contributor Simon MacDonald has written a superb explanation on Building a[n Android] Native Menu with PhoneGap Android . This is invaluable content, and superbly presented. Thanks, Simon!
Paul Krill has written a piece for InfoWorld entitled Native mobile app dev vs. HTML5: Why not both? . Paul contrasts the "native experience is second to none" with the ease of development and reduced cost associated with web standards based app development (including PhoneGap), and concludes:...