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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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