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Christophe Coenraets On Backbone.js And PhoneGap

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Fellow Adobe evangelist Christophe Coenraets recently posted a three part article on building a CRUD application using HTML and the Backbone.js framework. He has now followed it up with a post on building a mobile app using Backbone.js And PhoneGap.

PhoneGap 1.4 Released

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PhoneGap 1.4 has just been released, and here's a list of all that has changed.

jQuery Mobile 1.0.1 Released

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jQuery Mobile 1.0.1 has been released, full list of enhancements in this blog post.

Ray Camden On Getting Started With PhoneGap

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The latest Inspire Magazine is out, and it includes an article by our own Ray Camden on Combining your web skills with PhoneGap to build mobile apps.

Chicago Tribune Likes The AIR Based Politifact App

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The Chicago Tribune is running a story on how to Track the primaries and the candidates this election season. The first app they picked? The Flex and AIR based PolitiFact app.

PhoneGap Wins InfoWorld's 2012 Technology Of The Year Award

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Title says it all, PhoneGap has won an InfoWorld's 2012 Technology Of The Year Award.

Harish Sivaramakrishnan's HTML Graphing Experiment

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Fellow Adobe evangelist Harish Sivaramakrishnan has posted a Demo of Data visualization inspired by Google Zeitgeist 2011, and as he notes, "it's almost Flash like, but built in HTML, CSS and JavaScript".

Preventing Annoying jQuery Mobile Page Transitions

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The default jQuery Mobile page transitions are slide for pages and pop for dialogs. And on Android these can be sluggish and appear to flash on and off annoyingly. Turning off transitions is easy, well, once you know the code you need. The following (which is not overly clear in the docs) was given to me by fellow Adobian, and jQuery Mobile contributor, Kin Blas. dollarsignr(document).bind("mobileinit", function() { dollarsignr.mobile.defaultPageTransition = "none"; dollarsignr.mobile.defaultDialogTransition = "none"; }); Simple, right? Well, there is one catch. The mobileinit event has to be bound before jQuery Mobile is loaded. In other words it needs to be after your code that loads jQuery, but before the code that loads jQuery Mobile. You can put it right inline, or in its own .js file, which you can include.

Series On jQuery Mobile Theme Skinning

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The Fireworks team has started a 5-part blog series on jQuery Mobile Theme Skinning using Fireworks CS5 and the CSS3 Mobile Pack extension.

EchoSign eSignature App For iOS

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Need legally-binding electronically signed documents on the go? Check out the free Adobe EchoSign app. Details here

jQuery Mobile Control Refresh Gotcha

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jQuery lets you manually manipulate controls like lists. For example, you can do something like this to add an item to a list: $('#myList').append('

• Some text
• '); In jQuery Mobile, if you manually update lists like that, then when you are done you must force the list to refresh so that formatting and styles are applied. To do this, just use: $('#myList').listview('refresh'); But, there is one gotcha you should be aware of. jQuery Mobile apps are usually comprised of pages, each defined with a

, and often with multiple in the same .html file. jQuery (and thus jQuery Mobile) lets you manipulate any controls in your page, so you can append or change controls in a page not currently being displayed. But, the .listview('refresh') call? That will only work if the control is on the currently displayed page. If you try to .listview('refresh') a control on a page that is not displayed, you'll see this error: Uncaught cannot call methods on listview prior to initialization; attempted to call method 'refresh' So, if you do need to update controls on a not currently displayed page, remember to load that page before triggering the refresh.

JTSage And The Missing jQuery Mobile Controls

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jQuery is freaking amazing, you all know that already. jQuery Mobile? It's a great v1 effort (and it just won the Innovation of the Year award), but is not quite as complete as it needs to be. If you are playing with jQuery Mobile, you owe it to yourself to check out JTSage's jQuery Mobile plugins, DateBox (a date and time picker, it blows away the in development jQuery Mobile experimental datepicker), and SimpleDialog (a replacement for JavaScript alert() or dialog()). Both are must haves!

BlackBerry PlayBook Hard Reset

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My BlackBerry PlayBook hung yesterday. It took some digging to find the magic "hard reset" button, so I'm posting it here for when I need it next. Simultaneously press the power button and the volume down button, and hold for 10 - 15 seconds. Tada!

Play Game Of Flex, Win Flash Builder

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A group of my fellow Adobe evangelists have created the Game of Flex for iPad, Android tablets, and (soon) Blackberry PlayBook. The game consists of questions to quiz you on Flex development. If you correctly answer the quiz, you'll get a chance to win a copy of Flash Builder 4.6 (one license per month). Game of Flex is not only a game, it's also a fantastic learning tool that showcases all the new features of Flex 4.6.

3 PhoneGap Videos Posted

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Now on Adobe TV:

• Getting started with PhoneGap
• PhoneGap: Developing for iOS
• PhoneGap: Developing for Android