Capacitor was built as an alternative to Cordova, and although much is similar in terms of its methodology, the workflow and commands you will use in a Capacitor application will look quite different to Cordova. In this tutorial, we start out with a simple Ionic application and walk through how to integrate Capacitor and how […]
Publishing a Custom iOS Capacitor Plugin on NPM
Earlier this week, I published a tutorial that described how to use Capacitor to run custom iOS native code in Ionic. We built a Capacitor plugin that allowed us to automatically retrieve the latest photo on the user’s camera roll, resulting in an application that looked like this: In order to achieve this, we just […]
What Does iOS8 Mean for HTML5 Mobile App Developers
In short: very good things HTML5 mobile applications rely on the browser and the performance of JavaScript. Fortunately each new iOS software update has consistently brought about performance increases. The trend for all browsers has gone this way for a long time now, with the big players constantly competing with each other, JavaScript comes out […]
5 Reasons Apple Might Reject Your HTML5 Mobile App
There was one particularly remember-able rejection I received from Apple. I was working with a not for profit organisation to create an app for an event they had coming up soon. Considering the time sensitivity of the project, I put a lot of care into making sure the app would not be rejected by Apple. […]
Take Complete Control of the iOS Status Bar with PhoneGap Build
The status bar is the little horizontal bar at the top of an iDevice that displays network connectivity, time, battery and so on. By default a Sencha Touch application packaged with PhoneGap Build will just inherit the native behaviour of the iOS status bar. In the most recent iOS updates the default behaviour of the […]
How to Create an iOS Provisioning Profile and P12 with Windows
When I first started developing with Sencha Touch and PhoneGap on my Windows machine I was ecstatic to learn that I could create iOS applications without a Mac and XCode. This enthusiasm would later be crushed when I attempted to actually put the application on my phone, and learned of the various certificates, profiles and […]