March 18th, 2013

Windows Azure Adds Support For PhoneGap, Dropbox and Hadoop

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Windows Azure has added new support for a number of services including PhoneGap, Dropbox and Hadoop.

According to a blog post by Scott Guthrie, a corporate vice president in the Microsoft Tools and Servers group, developers can connect both HTML5 web-client apps, Apache Cordova/PhoneGap and Windows Phone 7.5 clients to use Windows Azure Mobile Services as a backend. → Read More

September 24th, 2012

Adobe Launches Hosted PhoneGap Build Service For Creating Cross-Platform Mobile Apps

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Today Adobe announced that its Adobe PhoneGap Build service is now out of beta. The service is based on the open source Apache Cordova and enables developers to use HTML, CSS and JavaScript to build cross-platform applications that work on iOS, Android and other mobile platforms. → Read More

August 30th, 2011

HTML5 Mobile App Framework PhoneGap Adds Facebook Connect Plugin

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Nitobi, creators of the HTML5-based mobile app framework PhoneGap, have today launched the PhoneGap Facebook Connect plugin. The addition of the plugin means that developers building apps using Web technologies like HTML and JavaScript can now simplify the log in process for their apps by allowing users to login with their Facebook credentials. → Read More