JavaScript for Line of Business Applications

I built my App using Ionic Framework, which is based on AngularJS, but these lessons should apply to other frameworks too. Angular has built-in support for animations, and Ionic comes with some default transitions for sliding pages left and right. I used that, and added a Javascript animation for the “Hero” element. It extracts the element from the card and positions it so it’s in the same place on screen, then animates it to it’s new location before removing it. The corresponding element in the details page is initially hidden during the animation, and revealed at the end so it appears to be the same element.

Google’s success at making the OS available at lower price points means that many users have devices with relatively limited performance. Giving those users a good experience is vital. Here are some lessons I’ve learned while optimising my App to look good on older or slower devices.

The proliferation of command-line tooling has exploded over the last few years – and hybrid mobile developer tools have been no exception. Where once we were downloading PhoneGap 1.2 and installing Xcode templates to develop our iOS apps, today we have platform-agnostic tools and utilities to help us fulfill the promise of cross-platform mobile app development. Today we have choices – and to help provide some guidance, I present you with a high-level comparison of three of the most popular command-line interfaces (CLIs) available today for hybrid mobile development.

LigerMobile is a lightweight open source framework that helps you develop hybrid apps quickly and easily. If you are looking for a tool to build a hybrid app, create a prototype, or just need a stepping stone to full native app development — this is a great way to begin.

What can one create during the New Year and Christmas holidays? As it turned down – quite enough. Even if you have two kids and a bunch of family members whom you want to visit. The only thing you cannot accomplish in time is to finish an article for Dzone. It takes a lot of time, nearly the entire January.

By the 5th of January I had a laptop and a couple of days to spend on some development. Having estimated what I can do here, I decided to create a mobile app that would work faster than the original. For this, I needed to find communicative creators of a popular app.

The Gartner research company reports that by August, 2013 most of the enterprise mobile software was created using PhoneGap or PhoneGap-based products (like Kony). From my consumer experience, it's far from true. Maybe I was wrong?

I'm not so good at HTML and JavaScript. I can create mark-up with stackoverflow.com and I can write simple selectors with jQuery. I can also find the required information in their documentation. In other words, HTML+JS was a gap in my knowledge and I was ready to fill it or gain some experience.

Thus, I planned to create a cross-platform application that could become an advantage over the original iOS-only Spender app. Moreover, I wanted to spend my time in the most effective way. On the one hand, I had a potentially effective JS framework, on the other – a lack of JS experience. I hoped that the JS framework advantages could balance my poor experience.

This article introduces the capabilities of these tools and how to use them, and even provides some code examples.

The first thing we need to do is install Ionic. Follow the installation instructions provided on the Ionic Getting Started page. (Note that Ionic has a dependency on NodeJS, so the instructions will require you to install that as well if you don’t already have it on your machine).

The AngularFire 5 minute tutorial is a great place to begin getting familiar with Firebase. And if you’re a “tinkerer” or a tactile learner like me you may want to pull my implementation from GitHub and start playing with the code.

Is creating mobile apps with AngularJS and PhoneGap a viable alternative to native development?

Mobile development is converging. Websites are beginning to feel like applications in their own right, with hardware powered graphics, smooth interfaces, and multiple versions for multiple devices. That begs the question, can web technologies power a full blown app?

n order to make an application feel as responsive as its native counterparts we'll need to take advantage of several new technologies. Having an interface to access the functionality of the phone such as accelerometer, camera and gps is crucial. PhoneGap allows us to do this, interfacing with the device to allow access to these hardware features through javascript.