In order to use Feedhenry AppForms on Windows 8.1 we need to build them locally. Not only that, but you’ll need to add a compat script in order to have support for dynamic content. I’ve created a script that shows all the steps

It’s been a while since Windows 10 started it first preview releases and now the release date is approaching (29 July), it’s time for me to find out what it’s all about especially from a developers point of view. So the biggest change is going to be that there is no longer a need for 2 different binaries, the same code will run on windows desktop tablet and phone (and even xbox). That means if you want to migrate your app and you have #if statements you’ll need to change them to run time checks:

We have released a new version of the cordova push plugin the new version 1.0.2 a new feature is support for external configuration. Now instead of using code you can store the variantId and secrets into a separate json file. With more platforms support coming this will not pollute your code anymore.

Hi all,

A new version of the push plugin (0.6.0) has been released. It now uses the latest push sdks and has a better test suite. Although we have plans to make the tests even better. The full list of changes is:

Cordova has a nice API for creating your own plugins. When you need to do something in native code, (for improved speed or security) or need to access some hardware, you can create your own plugin. Our team is concentrating on Android and iOS at the moment and one thing that I noticed is how different the API is between those 2 platforms. For instance creating a Echo plugin on iOS that has a method called echo all you need is this:

So as you all know you don’t need to know any objective-c to build great looking iOS apps. You can build them using HTML5 and javascript, but you still needed a mac to build it into an app and put it into the Appstore. With the introduction of phonegap build that was over you could build it in the cloud and test it on a device.

You probably know that we have a Unified Push server that enables you to notify multiple clients (e.g. Apple, Android and Web) using the same notification. We have had requests in the past to add Java client. I thought how hard could it be and had a go at it.

One of our feature that is nearing completion is crypto. Even though we have Javascript support for this feature, we decided that we would create a Cordova Plugin for this as well. With a Plugin we can use the native libraries and by doing so we add a bit more security and more importantly we improve speed. I’ve tried to stay as close as possible to the Javascript API, but Cordova demands us to work asynchronous so I’ve ended up with something that is not exactly the same:

A cool thing about mobile device is that it is mobile it’s a computer that you take with you. That is why we developed a Cordova plugin to make geo location inside your Cordova application easier. The first thing we did is to create some Javascript to easily create some maps that are mobile optimised and have some convenient functions for typical use cases. For instance have a map that shows where the device is located and a circle indicating the accuracy of this location:

All of my javascript colleges already knew this probably, but I just found out today that the DevTools on Chrome Canary are so great that you can use it as IDE. They have added a way to save files to disk and automatic reload. So what I used to do is load up an page and change the css styles in the inspector because it didn’t look right. Then copy those changes and put them in my css. Of course then I forget a couple that then are lost on reload. But now all changes are saved automatically even the ones that you make in the inspector that is to awesome for words.

We support developers that want to use Cordova to develop mobile apps. We already have a lot of documentation on how to get started with Cordova on our site. Now we’ve added some specialised plugins to start using AeroGear functionality in a Cordova project.

When I started with programming in 1998 there were still companies that invested in their own libraries. Finding help with things online was still hard. We were building state of the art software with the newly released struts. Inventing our maven based on ant with CVS, and our own OR mapping tool of course. Java guys love building frameworks.