Comments on: PhoneGap for iPhone exposed

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:58:55 +0000

Have a look at the Camera/Capture apis as well as fileTransfer to upload the image to a server.

http://docs.phonegap.com/phonegap_camera_camera.md.html
http://docs.phonegap.com/phonegap_file_file.md.html#FileTransfer

By: Kam

Kam — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:58:51 +0000

Hi,

I want to make a photosharing application, where people can take images and upload to a server/space online … will this be easy to do with PhoneGap and what would be the best starting place?

I’m a junior front end developer so can work with html/css/ and I know basic javascript so any examples or web links would be very helpful ..

thank you

By: Totti Anh Nguyen

Totti Anh Nguyen — Tue, 03 May 2011 03:13:23 +0000

Tried to find out how PhoneGap works and ended up at your post.

Thanks for the post with very useful insights.
The thing I was looking for is your explanation that
“all html/css/js files are bundled into the application and run from the file:// protocol.”

Cheers,

Totti

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Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:35:49 +0000

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By: zyanlu

zyanlu — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:20:15 +0000

I’ve just setup PhoneGap and then copy one of my web project into the www directory , guess what , every thing works fine! it’s just like voodoo and magic.

i can’t help to google “how phonegap works” and then find this post, thanks a lot.

btw : i’ll read the source code of phonegap (if i have time :p)

By: DeYo

DeYo — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:28:28 +0000

I have noticed that navigator.notification.alert works only on iPhone Device 3.0 and later. Is there any way that it could be used on earlier versions of iPhone (2.2)?

By: Tom Birchmire

Tom Birchmire — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:39:39 +0000

Hi,
The attraction of PhoneGap for me is that I can have the index.html file as part of the app and let AJAX access the database and PHP logic on my server. Actually, I left the index.html file on the server but it could have been part of the app. In any case, app fly-with-me-A.apk works wonderfully well so long as it has a data connection.
Best Regards,
Tom Birchmire

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:04:59 +0000

Dwight,
This post was an explanation of how PhoneGap works on iPhone, the other platforms work in a similar fashion, but not necessarily exactly the same. The cool part is that the complexity is hidden from you for the most part, and the same js/html can be used for multiple platforms.

If you did deeper at phonegap.com on the community pages, you should find more info/examples on the other platforms. You are definitely NOT alone in wanting to target other devices.

In reply to your last question, web content can only access this functionality if it is loaded from a PhoneGap based application, and not the devices normal web-browser. However, the recommendation is that you perform your application logic on the client within your application and not simply on the server.

Typical phonegap apps contain their business + presentation logic in JavaScript on the client, and if a server is used, it is usually accessed via json/xhr through an API that primarily serves data.

By: Dwight Vietzke

Dwight Vietzke — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:17:18 +0000

Any chance you could point out some simple example pages? Everything listed at phonegap are i-tunes downloads. I’m more interested in the cross-browser capabilities than just the i-Phone stuff, (yeah, I know I’m probably the only one who is).

For some of us, the world doesn’t revolve around only Apple. Or maybe thats my point. Can this be used as a cross-browser/device web app? I get the part about using it as a Safari/WebKit file w/JavaScript include (as an app on the device), but can it be used just as web content with javascript access?

Still, the project looks really interesting. Keep on blogging.

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