Announcing my eBook – jQuery Mobile + PhoneGap + Drupal 7

Last year, I worked on a blog post series about building a jQuery Mobile HTML 5 App with PhoneGap and Drupal 7. After getting really deep in the weeds on that project, I ended up with some very complicated JavaScript to manage the creation of Drupal nodes with an authenticated user. That experience led directly …

Update on Drupal iOS Plugin for PhoneGap

I’ve made progress with the Drupal iOS plugin for PhoneGap, and I’m really happy with the results. I’m holding off on writing more posts in the Building a jQuery Mobile App with PhoneGap for Drupal series until I get all the functionality I need into the plugin – I’ve just got to add the file …

Building a jQuery Mobile HTML5 App with PhoneGap for Drupal 7, Part 2

In this post, we’re going to add functionality to take a picture to our jQuery Mobile app using the PhoneGap Media Capture API. We’ll add a button with jQuery Mobile that brings up the mobile phone’s camera. With jQuery Mobile, to make buttons, we can use the <a href> tag with a data-role=”button” attribute. If …

Building a jQuery Mobile HTML5 App with PhoneGap for Drupal 7, Part 1

In this series of posts, I’m going to discuss how to build a jQuery Mobile HTML5 App that talks to Drupal 7 using AJAX, REST and JSON. I’m going to use the PhoneGap project to create an iPhone application out of the jQuery Mobile app that you can install onto your iPhone. Using PhoneGap, you …