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Intel fights back against iOS with free tools for HTML5 cross-platform mobile development

By tim, on April 16th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Today at its Software Conference in Paris Intel presented its HTML5 development tools.

There are several components, starting with the XDK, a cross-platform development kit based on HTML5, CSS and JavaScript designed to be packaged as mobile apps using Cordova, the open source variant of PhoneGap.

There is an intriguing comment here:

The XDK

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Adobe Brackets: a different type of HTML and JavaScript code editor. Interview with Adobe’s Adam Lehman.

By tim, on July 24th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

On Adobe’s Tools and Services page there is an intriguing remark about the company’s plans for a code editor. “We think there’s a need for a different type of code editor – we’re working on something and will have more to share soon.”

That something is Brackets, a code editor written in HTML and

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PhoneGap 2.0 released with WebView, Windows Phone support

By tim, on July 20th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has released PhoneGap 2.0, its framework for creating cross-platform mobile apps using HTML and JavaScript. Using PhoneGap, you can wrap a web application as a native app, taking advantage of the browser control available in all the major mobile platforms.

New features in PhoneGap 2.0 include Windows Phone support, WebView which lets you embed

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS6, PhoneGap Build, and HTML5 app tooling

By tim, on April 24th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I am looking forward to trying out Adobe’s new Creative Suite 6 but have not yet got my hands on it. However one thing I am watching with interest is the work Adobe is doing to integrate PhoneGap developing into the suite, in particular in Dreamweaver.

PhoneGap lets you build native mobile apps for several

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Appcelerator Titanium gets Mobile Web SDK, cloud services

By tim, on April 20th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Appcelerator’s Titanium cross-platform development framework has moved up a gear with the announcement of two new features:

A set of cloud services, based on those acquired with Cocoafish in February this year. These are now known as Appcelerator Cloud Services (ACS). Support for mobile web applications as well as native

These features are integrated into

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Apple breaks web storage in iOS 5.1, does not care about web apps?

By tim, on April 1st, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Many iOS apps which rely on web storage APIs for persistent data have been broken by the recent upgrade to iOS 5.1. The issue affects apps built with PhoneGap or others which use WebKit APIs to store data. The affect for users is that they lose all their data after the upgrade. For example, it

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PhoneGap is Adobe, Cordova is Apache

By tim, on March 20th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

The hot cross-platform mobile toolkit PhoneGap was created by Nitobi, a company acquired by Adobe last year. Almost at the same time, the project was submitted to Apache as an open source project. However, the Apache project is not called PhoneGap; it was briefly known as Callback and is now called Cordova (the name of

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Adobe acquires PhoneGap company Nitobi

By tim, on October 3rd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has announced the acquisition of Nitobi, the company which created and sponsors the open source PhoneGap project for creating cross-platform mobile applications using HTML5 technology.

Apparently this does not affect the plan to donate PhoneGap to the Apache Software Foundation:

We are also excited to announce our donation of the PhoneGap code to the

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PhoneGap likely to move to Apache Software Foundation

By tim, on September 28th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Nitobi’s Brian LeRoux, who works on PhoneGap, has announced the start of a process to move the project to the Apache Software Foundation:

We have initialized the process to contribute PhoneGap to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The process is straightforward beginning w/ a submission of a proposal to the ASF that describes the move

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PhoneGap is at version 1.0

By tim, on August 3rd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve just spotted that PhoneGap has reached version 1.0. The release was announced at PhoneGap day in Portland, on Friday 29th July.

I have spent some time trying out various cross-platform mobile development tools. PhoneGap is among the most interesting and popular, and is also open source and free to use. If you believe that

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