From our archived blog:
Hopefully you saw our post from last week about waiting for our application's approval. So I'm going to fill you in on how I've kept busy the last few days. I've been tasked with beginning a new project. I can't really tell you any specifics about the project or whom I am doing the project for. Simply because it's still in silent mode, but I can tell you some of the gory technical details. So the simple needs are I need a phone app. A phone app that runs on Android and iPhone. I need the app to pull data from a third party. Oh and I need it in two weeks. Awesome. So you may be wondering how I'd pull this off. The short answer: PhoneGap (changed to Cordova). PhoneGap is an amazing platform that allows you to build native apps. The twist to it is that you build these apps in html 5 and javascript. Then you can move the folder containing this html and javascript to a different platform minus at least one specific javascript file. (I found this out the hard way.) So say you started in Eclipse building an Android application. You decide it's time to fire up Xcode (assuming you have an Intel Mac), and you copy the html directory into your iOS project. At this point with usually a little tweakage you can have the app running within a few minutes in the simulator. Or so the theory goes. Pretty cool stuff. Now I'm in the very early stages of this project. That means that I found out about it yesterday. Today the designer and I have begun the bulk of the work. While the designer is off setting up the UI and making it look amazing (he is very talented), I have begun to design the folder hierarchy as well as the stubs for database control and logging. Hopefully in the next few weeks I can unveil this app here to let you take a look.