PhoneGap Sprint 1 | December 1st, 2008
The first PhoneGap sprint wrapped up this weekend. We started Friday with about 15 folks squished into the Nitobi boardroom for Pizza, a quick explanation and game plan delivered by Brock Whitten.
Here’s a quick summary of what we accomplished on the various platforms now in the PhoneGap umbrella.
iPhone
Added network detection
Notify user if no network is detected
Memory clean ups
Made default image/screen more intelligent
Android
Accelerometer
Basic camera support
Offline support
Bugs fixed
Blackberry
GPS is totally working with the W3C API (maybe some error states don’t work but we’ll get there)
Camera works
Mapping works
Phone calls work
Vibration works
*Not all the Blackberry stuff is checked in yet.
We also cleaned up wiki the wiki a bunch. The new PhoneGap site is almost ready to push live too.
What’s next? We need to get all the JavaScript APIs in sync. Check the roadmap for more info. The website will be up shortly. Stay tuned for the Translink case study too.
Nitobi sends a big thanks to the Handi mobility guys , EffectiveUI and everyone else who came out!
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