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    How to Add Files to the "res" Directory

    Jim Cowart explores how you can add resource files to your Icenium apps and include them in the "res/" directory when you build your installers.
    January 10, 2014
  • Mobile

    Adding Icons and Splash Screens To Your PhoneGap / Icenium Projects

    Adding icons and splash screens to a PhoneGap/Cordova project has always been a bit tricky for developers. Each platform has its own file formats, image dimensions, and conventions - such as how the files are named. In this article I'll attempt to demystify how to create and add images to your projects. We'll look both at how to add images to PhoneGap applications created through its CLI, as well as how to add images to Icenium projects.
    January 03, 2014
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    PhoneGap/Apache Cordova Lifecycle Events

    As you begin writing hybrid mobile apps using Icenium, one of the things you should know about early on are the "lifecycle events" that are a core part of PhoneGap/Apache Cordova. These events are emitted on the document and provide critical hooks ("deviceready", for example) for when your application behavior should execute. In this post we'll take a brief look at the most important/often-used lifecycle events.
    January 01, 2014
  • Mobile

    Store and Share Settings in Windows 8 HTML/WinJS Apps

    Storing as well as sharing app settings between devices is just a few steps away.
    December 30, 2013
  • Mobile

    Cross Window Communication With Cordova's InAppBrowser

    Cordova's InAppBrowser plugin does as its name implies: opens a new browser window within the current app. This gives you the powerful ability to access web content without needing to embed it within the app itself. While Cordova provides plenty of options to configure how this browser works, there are no built in APIs that let you directly pass data back and forth between the app and the InAppBrowser window. In this article we'll take a look at a workaround to make this possible.
    December 24, 2013