I just wanted to share a few tips regarding the Content Security Policy meta tag that we need to use in PhoneGap/Cordova apps. I’m not going to cover all the gory details — for that, there are plenty of great sites.
»I’m so proud to announce that my new book, PhoneGap 3.x Mobile Application Development Hotshot is now available for purchase. It’s an update to my earlier book, and it has been modernized and updated for Cordova 3.x. Although the title includes “PhoneGap” in the name, it generally uses the Cordova Command Line Interface (“PhoneGap” is more recognizable in the market).
»So, it’s pretty much a given that working with the HTML5 API is a painful experience due to all those levels of callbacks. Even a simple operation turns into something unnecessarily complex, and so I present FileManager – a simple wrapper around frequently used portions of the File API that uses Promises (or Q.js, specifically).
»In an app for a client, I was having an odd problem: the SELECT box wasn’t tappable on Android 2.x. It worked great on iOS. It worked great on Android 4.x. But on 2.x, it just wouldn’t respond to input.
»Yeah, yeah, so using SOAP is generally not the preferred solution when working from Javascript. It’s so much easier to handle data in JSON rather than in XML. But sometimes you can’t avoid it.
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