WP7 PhoneGap Backbutton Support Re-visited
Colin Eberhardt, January 19th, 2012
About a month ago I published an article which demonstrated how to create a WP7 application using static HTML pages and PhoneGap. Whilst PhoneGap makes the packaging of HTML / JavaScript / CSS and images into a breeze, one thing it doesn’t do is provide correct back-button support. Correct back-button support is a mandatory requirement [...]Windows Phone 7 – Browsing your Photos via Bing Maps
Colin Eberhardt, January 16th, 2012
The Windows Phone 7 camera gives you the option to record the location where a picture was taken (under Settings => applications => pictures+camera). With this feature turned on, each application has their latitude, longitude and altitude stored as part of the standard EXIF data. I thought it would be fun to combine the previous [...]Proud to be a CodeProject MVP 2012
Colin Eberhardt, January 9th, 2012
I have just received an email from Chris Maunder, co-founder of CodeProject, informing me that I have been awarded CodeProject MVP status for 2012. I am very pleased to have received this award, which is given to a small handful of individuals each year. What I like about CodeProject is the fantastic quality of the [...]FastClick for WP7 – Improving Browser Responsiveness for PhoneGap Apps
Colin Eberhardt, January 5th, 2012
I recently released an update of the HTML5 / PhoneGap application I wrote a few months ago to the marketplace. This update fixed the location detection issue, where the marketplace certification process failed to detect that the application was using geolocation data via the browser (this issue has been fixed in PhoneGap 1.2), plus a [...]A Festive and Fun Windows Phone 7 Maze Game
Colin Eberhardt, December 22nd, 2011
Last night, with my Christmas presents all wrapped and a lack of any decent programmes (festive or otherwise) on television, I had a few hours to kill, so decided to create a festive-themed WP7 game … Ever since I first started writing code for Windows Phone 7 I have wanted to do something involving physics [...]A Metro Themed PowerPoint Template
Colin Eberhardt, December 19th, 2011
Over the weekend I mentioned on Twitter that I had created a Metro-style PowerPoint template. There were a few requests to share, so hence this blog post. Scroll to the bottom to download the PowerPoint file. So why create a Metro-style PowerPoint presentation? A couple of reasons, firstly, the templates that come with PowerPoint are [...]A Simple Multi-Page Windows Phone 7 PhoneGap Example
Colin Eberhardt, December 15th, 2011
This blog post shows how you can use PhoneGap to create Windows Phone 7 applications that are comprised of multiple, simple HTML pages, whilst meeting the Marketplace certification requirements. Readers of my blog will know that I have been working on, and writing about, the use of PhoneGap to create HTML5-based Windows Phone 7 applications. [...]A Windows Phone 7 Slide View with Page Pips
Colin Eberhardt, December 8th, 2011
A popular user-interface in the iOS world is the UIPageControl which renders a small set of dots to indicate the number of pages, with the current page highlighted in some way. This is often used in conjunction with a UIScrollView to navigate between pages in a multi-page layout. Windows Phone 7 has a Pivot control [...]Ext JS 4 Stock Charts
Mark Rhodes, December 1st, 2011
I’ve been working with Ext JS 4′s pure Javascript charting package for a while now and due to the lack of decent real-world examples (i.e. those that don’t just use almost all default settings) and a few undue omissions in the documentation, it’s not always been plain sailing. In an attempt to rectify this situation, [...]Handling the back-stack in Windows Phone 7 PhoneGap applications
Colin Eberhardt, November 28th, 2011
Recently I have been researching the use of PhoneGap for creating HTML5 Windows Phone 7 applications. I have written an introductory post on the subject and also managed to have a HTML5-based application accepted into the marketplace. The Windows Phone 7 execution model has a few unique features (when compared to Android and iOS) that [...]