Comments on: Adventures with PhoneGap

By: Steve Nay

Steve Nay — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:19:20 +0000

Thanks, Ryan! It works perfectly.

By: Ryan @ Nitobi

Ryan @ Nitobi — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:31:20 +0000

I've implemented the missing functionality of html select boxes in PhoneGap (here's the hack attack fix: http://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-palm/blob/m...).

Basically just show a Mojo Submenu onclick, and upon selection, manually modify the select's value and fire the onchange event.

By: Jason W

Jason W — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:50:59 +0000

So as for the emulator returning a UUID of null, that appears to be somewhat normal, at least from this posting:

http://osdir.com/ml/AndroidDevelopers/2009-07/m...

Not sure why 2.2 actually returns a UUID, but it would explain the case for previous versions. Just some more information that might help explain the problem.

By: Steve Nay

Steve Nay — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:02:57 +0000

That's very interesting. I'm getting the same result in my testing. Thanks for finding that, Jason!

By: Jason W

Jason W — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:46:52 +0000

From my testing, it appears that while using the latest git pull, Android 2.2 does display the UUID properly. Anything below 2.2 returned “undefined” (tested 1.6 and 2.1).

By: Steven Nay

Steven Nay — Fri, 28 May 2010 21:47:20 +0000

I downloaded the phonegap-android package that had the May 14 commit from Joe Bowser (SHA a65b5784492044324b49).

I'm running Android 2.1 on both of the Motorola DROID phones, as well as the Android SDK emulator, so I don't think the age of the OS build has anything to do with it.

By: Brian LeRoux

Brian LeRoux — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:36:12 +0000

Hey Ryan, our android/blackberry rockstar Fil did some quick tests of Android EVO and the UUID shows up properly. We can't reproduce the GPS not getting a fix issue — thinking it might be an older build of Android you have. What is the SHA of the git / version you downloaded?

We're going to look into why the emulator on Android crashes when you call beep(). It works fine on device which is how we normally test.

By: Steven Nay

Steven Nay — Wed, 26 May 2010 03:30:47 +0000

Ryan,

Thank you so much for your research! It's encouraging to know how invested the PhoneGap developers are in making this platform a success. Feel free to post the link to your blog post here when you get it done. I look forward to hearing what you discover and develop!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 26 May 2010 03:11:37 +0000

Thanks for the solid PhoneGap feedback. We want to see more people trying it out, as its tough for us to get time to both develop it and create full-spectrum applications which provide real-world results.

I implemented PhoneGap Palm, so I'll provide some comments on your observations with the Palm platform:

- alert(): if it doesn't break the Mojo framework, I will implement the alert function using a Mojo popup dialog (should've done this before).

- vibrate: yes basically the vibrate function is a private api and is only available to "Palm" applications, for whatever reason. I guess we shouldn't have even known about it, but was probably leaked. Either way, I wanted to see PhoneGap make a Palm device vibrate, so I implemented that. but in reality, vibrate is unsupported on webOS, since we cannot identify our apps as com.palm apps. hopefully we can get the webOS guys to make this API public.

- location services: obviously the location retrieved by PhoneGap is completely dependent on what the GPS device / Mojo Service framework provide us here. Though I have to say my experiences here have been fairly good regarding GPS accuracy -- though maybe thats just cause I'm in good spot.

- html select boxes: big discovery, amazed I haven't come across this one. Can't believe that webOS / Mojo doesn't support this. I commented on your Stackoverflow post, and I too am going to do a blog post on this and try to expose it to Palm, as well as investigate our own solutions.

Thanks again for this great post.