PhoneGap Blog Post on PhoneGap and Tiggr
Posted by Charley Cowens on December 16, 2011 04:10 pm under Puiblications
A lot of the height attained by Tiggr Mobile Apps Builder as a mobile development platform comes from “standing on the shoulders of Giants.” One of those Giants is PhoneGap. So, when the people at PhoneGap asked Exadel’s Max Katz to post an article on their blog about how Exadel’s Tiggr works with PhoneGap, he jumped at the chance resulting in the article, “Building Mobile Apps in the Cloud with Tiggr and PhoneGap” posted just last week.
Max fills in a lot of details in his article, but, at a general level, it’s pretty straightforward. PhoneGap allows an app to go native, to access device-level features (like operating the camera), through a cross-device-platform API. Tiggr includes the PhoneGap library as part of each native app project.
Then, Tiggr makes it incredibly easy to use the PhoneGap wrapper’s capabilities in your app as you develop it in Tiggr. First, you can incorporate JavaScript coding (including accessing the PhoneGap API) in a variety of ways in app design with Tiggr — for example, as a custom action to execute on an event like a button press. And, for some common uses of the PhoneGap API for device control (like barcode scanning), we’ve included a set of fill-in-the-blank drag-and-drop components in a special Device palette.
And There’s More…
Here’s a big thank-you to the people at PhoneGap for mentioning the article (and Tiggr) in their December newsletter!