I helped drive Adobe's acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi. AMA

Re:I helped drive Adobe's acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi... by ivankirigin on Monday October 03, 2011 @05:59PM (#3068308)

Have you seen any good examples of iOS apps made from HTML5 with PhoneGap that are actually good?

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Re:I helped drive Adobe's acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi... by kberger on Monday October 03, 2011 @06:18PM (#3068386)

There's a variety of examples here: http://www.phonegap.com/apps

I'm also a fan of the Travelocity Android app, which was built with PhoneGap.

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Re:I helped drive Adobe's acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi... by dcurtis on Monday October 03, 2011 @08:16PM (#3068786)

None of those are actually any good. I installed the Travelocity app, and after fighting with the keyboard to select the airport from a dropdown, I got a javascript error that rendered the app useless.

PhoneGap does not make good apps.

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Re:I helped drive Adobe's acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi... by ryanglasgow on Monday October 03, 2011 @09:04PM (#3068906)

Phonegap has nothing to do with form inputs, and is used to access native phone functionality (camera, address book, location, device information etc).

I'm building mobile app with HTML5/CSS3/Backbone.js/PhoneGap and it's an excellent stack that allows you to build native-like apps for multiple OS's. Everyone I've demo'd the app to has no idea it's not written in Obj-C..

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Re:I helped drive Adobe's acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi... by noisebleed on Monday October 03, 2011 @11:17PM (#3069202)

You're absolutely right. I've spent hours debugging strange form input behavior related to quirks in Mobile Safari / UIWebView which are hardly Phonegap's fault. It really comes down to optimization and ironing out all of the wrinkles, though it can be a bit painful since most mobile browser quirks aren't well documented online.

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Re:I helped drive Adobe's acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi... by apike on Monday October 03, 2011 @11:22PM (#3069213)

My friends at Nitobi directed me to Xero Touch, which is IMO the best example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6wM5QJhVus&hd=1

While an iOS designer like myself sees a lot of telltale signs it's HTML (the flicker of loading buttons' assets for example) it looks very nice.

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