Engineering

Real World with AngularJS and Cordova / PhoneGap

The main Jibebuy  web app is a single page web app based on AngularJS.  Inspired by reading The Definitive Guide to Angular on Mobile, I decided to spend 1 day porting Jibebuy to Cordova. After just a few hours, I was able to login to Jibebuy on my Android phone! After a couple of days, I had a…

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Custom WebView/InAppBrowser for iOS and Android for Cordova / PhoneGap App

The default Cordova InAppBrowser (WebView in iOS terminology) is pretty ugly (different kinds of ugly on iOS and Android) and, besides, we needed to add a Jibebuy toolbar icon so users can save their favorite houses, cars, etc., in Jibebuy. So I decided to figure out how to customize the Cordova InAppBrowser. This required a significant dive…

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iTunes / iOS / Android App Store Approval for Cordova / PhoneGap Apps

Back in July, we put the finishing touches on our Jibebuy 1.0 mobile apps and submitted them to the Apple and Google app stores for approval. Here are the highlights: The 1.0 version app was “Waiting for Review” for about 7 days, then “In Review” for about 4 hours. The 1.1 version update was “Waiting…

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