We have just released PhoneGap 2.6.0! Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to get this release out.
In this release, the community mainly focused on bug fixes. View the 2.6.0 commits in the changelog on GitHub.
If you find any bugs with this version, help out our community and project by reporting them on our issue tracker.
The PhoneGap Build team just released 2.5 support and is already hard at work on supporting PhoneGap 2.6.0. Stay tuned.
Original article here.
On August 15, Adobe will no longer offer Flash for Android through the Google Play store. Any Android device that does not already have Flash will be unable to download it any longer. It is the end of a very long, difficult road for Adobe as it cedes video on mobile browsers to HTML5.
Come tomorrow, if you do not already have Flash on your Android smartphone, you will not be able to get it. Adobe has planned to put Flash for Android to rest since fall 2011. The company announced on June 28th that it would un-publish Flash from Google Play on August 15.
Tomorrow will not bring the complete end of Flash support on Android devices. Existing Flash for Android users will continue to receive security updates, but that is the extent to which Adobe will continue to support the plug-in.
Read the whole article here.
Our 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday Aug 16 will be “Mobile WebDev: The Horrors”, with John Bender of Adobe.
TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)
Progressive Enhancement is a technique that was born out of a desire to provide the best possible experience at all levels of browser capability. Now, as the mobile web becomes a prime target for new applications many developers experienced with Progressive Enhancement are happily hanging up their PE hats, grateful that Webkit has formed the foundation for so many mobile browsers. Sadly, it might be too early to declare victory. From rendering issues, to wildly different event timing, to extremely popular browsers like Opera that aren’t Webkit at all, the PE approach has never been more important.
jQuery Mobile has been built, from the start, with the goal of providing a serviceable foundation for the oldest and least capable browsers and then building up to a beautiful user experience on those that are newer and more powerful. Here we’ll discuss some of the more difficult issues facing mobile web developers today and exactly how jQuery Mobile can save you valuable cycles with its approach.
MEETING URL: http://experts.adobeconnect.com/cfmeetup/
Came to an end the fight Google x Oracle, at least in the courts.
This is because a California jury today declared the innocence of the search company, on charges of patents infringement of the Java language to develop the Android operating system.
According to the website The Verge, the ten members of the jury agreed unanimously that Oracle has not proved any of his accusations that Google had infringed the patents of Java to develop for Android tablets and smartphones.
Google issued a statement on the decision:
“The sentence that Android does not infringe patents of Oracle is a victory not only for Google, but for the entire Android ecosystem.”
Translated from Olhar Digital
Curious about PhoneGap? Have questions? Today, Andrew Trice and myself are hosting a 2 hour Adobe Connect session on PhoneGap. This will be an open session for your questions, not a presentation. The Connect URL is: http://my.adobeconnect.com/adobehtml. The date/time is Tuesday 1PM CST to 3PM CST (that’s 11AM to 1PM PST).
Original post from Ray Camden: http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/5/7/Open-Session-on-PhoneGap-Development
Our 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday Apr 28 will be part two of two in the day from different speakers, but both on JQuery Mobile. Second up at 6pm will be “Using jQuery Mobile for your Next Web Application”, with Andy Matthews. At noon Ray Camden will have offered a preliminary talk (details in its separate announcement).
TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)
jQuery is everywhere. It’s a JavaScript framework, it’s an application development framework, and now it’s a mobile framework. Built around the rules of progressive enhancement jQuery Mobile is a mobile application framework for the next version of mobile optimized websites. In this session Andy will discuss background research done by the jQuery Mobile team, concepts used in the development of jQuery Mobile, and of course lots of code and demos. If you’re on the fence about whether to use jQuery Mobile, this session will answer all your questions.
MEETING URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/
DURATION: Approx. 1 hour
Meeting will be recorded. URL will be posted after meeting at recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com