Adobe Dreamweaver 5.5 Supports PhoneGap | April 12th, 2011
We’re very excited that Adobe has now announced their support for PhoneGap! The gist of is it is now you can package your apps with PhoneGap and launch the iOS and Android emulators directly from within Dreamweaver. This version of Dreamweaver also bakes in support for jQuery Mobile which is one of the most popular frameworks used inside PhoneGap. I think this is awesome! This a big move forward for Adobe embracing mobile, open standards (HTML5), the mobile web and open source!
Scott Fegette, Dreamweaver Product Manager, has the most in depth write up on it. Here’s a snipit.
For Android, the complex process of installing, configuring, and verifying the Android SDK has always been a bit of a chore. Dreamweaver CS5.5 takes all the pain out of this process by providing an “easy install” option, which will do all of the above for you in the background. Although the Apple iOS SDK tools are subject to a different licensing model (and only available on the Mac platform), once you’ve installed the Apple iOS SDK (or Xcode from the Mac App Store), you simply point Dreamweaver CS5.5 to the /Developer directory on your hard drive and you’re ready to go.
Greg Rewis senior evangelist at Adobe also has a great post on the topic and video explaining how it all works:
PhoneGap is all about making mobile app development easier and more accessible to broad audience of web developers out there do getting in bed with Dreamweaver is a great step in that direction.
One thing the Adobe folk don’t promote as much as I think they should is the fact that web developers can call native apis like camera, contacts, notifications etc from PhoneGap now within Dreamweaver. That’s at least as exciting as packaging for app stores:)
If this blog post seems a day late and a dollar short I apologize. I obviously new this functionality was coming out in Dreamweaver, but no one at Adobe told us they were launching yesterday:P Next time!
Be sure to check out the official Adobe blog post for more info on new features in Adobe Creative Suite 5.5.
PS. Please excuse their typo on the opening slide of video. It’s PhoneGap not Phone Gap. I’m sure it was just video production company who just didn’t know what’s up! :)
April 13th, 2011 at 4:55 pm
Will this be available on windows or just osx?
April 18th, 2011 at 11:27 am
great stuff from adobe .. ;)
April 18th, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Think it will be availlable on both platforms. Adobe is bringing all application to both platforms with nearly no feature missing on one. (Except the LCD which is WIN only.)
Problem might be the iOS SDK, which is, what I understand, only availlable on Mac.
April 19th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Support for PhoneGap from within Dreamweaver will be available on both platforms. On Windows, you can only build for Android since you can’t install the iOS developer tools on Windows. On Mac, both Android, and iOS are supported.
April 21st, 2011 at 1:47 pm
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April 21st, 2011 at 10:14 pm
Since the app is packaged with PhoneGap and not developed the ‘native’ way, does it qualify for listing in the iTune app store where we can sell the app? Will Apple block us?
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:00 am
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April 22nd, 2011 at 11:57 am
PhoneGap apps are native apps they just happen to run HTML5 and JS. Here’s a few apps that have been built with PhoneGap and submitted to various app stores.
http://www.phonegap.com/apps/
April 28th, 2011 at 9:34 pm
I do a lot with PHP to create arrays and do SQL. Do I create special PHP pages and call them in AJAX or do I have to rewrite everything in JavaScript?
April 30th, 2011 at 1:13 pm
Can Dreamweaver/PhoneGap be used to create apps for Windows 7 Mobile and the Blackberry Playbook?
May 10th, 2011 at 9:24 am
This is absolutely incredible. Huge thanks to both teams for bringing such an amazing resource to front-end developers!
May 10th, 2011 at 11:20 am
@William not yet. but in the near future WP7 and then Playbook will be support will be added to PhoneGap and the hopefully via PhoneGap Build to DW.
@Basil you’d have to create HTML pages and then call services via JavaScript on your sever…hopefully in a JSON format.
May 10th, 2011 at 11:20 am
@Bart Thanks!
May 13th, 2011 at 5:21 pm
For iOS, Once you build within CS5.5 and phonegap generates the .app package. How do you test it? How do you provision and sign it so you can test it locally on your device before deploying to Apple App store? I can’t find any resources for this step. Adobe says tutorials are coming but if anyone has any inside information I would appreciate it. Thanks!
May 24th, 2011 at 11:30 am
You need a developer account for iPhones…$99 per year
June 1st, 2011 at 7:17 pm
Market does not accept apks signed with the debug certificate. Create a new certificate that is valid for at least 50 years.
Market requires that the certificate used to sign the apk be valid until at least October 22, 2033. Create a new certificate.
what am i doing wrong to receive this error?
from DW 5.1
June 2nd, 2011 at 9:19 am
Great work with Android….
June 10th, 2011 at 1:28 am
Well this is a stumbling block. Just brought 5.5 and installed it, and when I go to the dreamweaver new->more->samples the mobile framework thing is missing.
Is this only in some particular versions of 5.5?
June 10th, 2011 at 1:36 am
No my bad, just screwed up my configuration. Ignore me!
June 16th, 2011 at 3:31 pm
This is just super exciting! Now I just feel silly for wasting all of those hours searching through other IDE’s like Eclipse, Netbeans, and Titanium Studio to start my app development, and it was right in front of me with Adobe the whole time!
Thanks for the quick tut!
June 17th, 2011 at 6:13 pm
@Jason, great question. I’m interested to know that as well.
Where is the steps within Dreamweaver where you specify the code signing details, like within Xcode?
Also, where is the .ipa put that you could distribute to users when doing ad hoc?
June 28th, 2011 at 8:29 pm
Can anybody help me to install phonegap to my Pc(windows XP 32 bit) using remote desktop(Teamviewer)?
June 29th, 2011 at 11:34 pm
Is that Steven Segal?
July 2nd, 2011 at 1:41 pm
I mainly use PHP, will I have to use javascript to call my functions and so on?
July 16th, 2011 at 11:33 am
great. So i downloaded phonegap.
How do i install all these loose folders into Dreamweaver?
Cheers
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August 15th, 2011 at 4:50 am
“One thing the Adobe folk don’t promote as much as I think they should is the fact that web developers can call native apis like camera, contacts, notifications etc from PhoneGap now within Dreamweaver. That’s at least as exciting as packaging for app stores:)”
Probably that is because, camera api is not working at all in dreamweaver cs 5.5. Neither the full example code from “Camera” (Documentation/phonegap_camera_camera.md.html) is working, nor is capture.captureImage (Documentation/phonegap_media_capture_capture.md.html#capture.captureImage) when built using dreamweaver.
August 15th, 2011 at 4:26 pm
This is a great service, I can’t thank you enough for all you have done to make building phone apps possible through Dreamweaver.
August 16th, 2011 at 2:33 pm
You mean there will be iphone simulator as well in DW ??
August 17th, 2011 at 4:59 am
Great idea poor execution… worthless if you cannot create a signed file for distribution.
August 22nd, 2011 at 5:20 pm
PhoneGap Build to DW + WP7 support ? best news ever heard…
‘easy torture’ button never, ever worked…
August 24th, 2011 at 5:26 am
When will dreamweaver phone gap integration for blackberry WebWorks be available?
August 30th, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Out of all the software i have ever used, this is by far the bes, phonegap will start a new revolution. i am 15, i am quite an experienced web designer but i was set the task of developing an application, it was a stressful task until i found phonegap.
September 5th, 2011 at 11:15 am
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September 5th, 2011 at 11:48 pm
Great tool, thanks
October 1st, 2011 at 4:05 pm
Good submission, quite accurate, maybe a small too accurate. Effectively Delivered!
October 2nd, 2011 at 9:28 am
@Tim Spence: “worthless if you cannot create a signed file for distribution”.
Did you test it? How do you know that?
October 3rd, 2011 at 3:51 pm
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October 5th, 2011 at 12:17 pm
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October 19th, 2011 at 3:29 am
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October 19th, 2011 at 6:33 pm
Phone Gap and Dreamweaver no longer allow you to ‘Build and Emulate’ an app with the ios 5 upgrade. It’s all over that developers are getting errors now, and it used to work fine.
October 28th, 2011 at 9:56 pm
fuck fuck fuck “PHONEGAP IS OPENSOURCE EVER”…damn ADOBE suck´s