An Example Progressive Web App on Android

RJ Dela-Cruz Angular, Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, Mobile 6 Comments

In my experience, the best way to learn a new technology is to create something tangible with it. I recently sought out to learn Angular and Angular Material. So, I developed an experimental Angular app that uses omdbapi to query Movie Posters. It’s aptly named Movie Poster Finder.

Developing the Movie Poster Finder application, I ran into a thing called PWA, which is also known as Progressive Web Applications. I thought it was really neat that both Android and mobile Chrome treat them as native applications.

In this post, I will show an example Progressive Web Application in action, explaining what I encountered when turning an experimental Angular web application into a PWA.

GrokOla

Keyhole Releases GrokOla Mobile, iOS and Android

Lauren Fournier Bogner Articles, Company News, Keyhole Creations, Mobile Leave a Comment

Attention: The following article was published over 10 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.The Keyhole Software team is excited to announce the release of a mobile version of the GrokOla software platform for both the iOS and Android platforms. GrokOla is a tool for development teams that …

PhoneGap: Utilizing Native Mobile Features with Plugins

Jinal Patel Articles, Mobile, Tutorial, Xamarin 2 Comments

Attention: The following article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.Recently, I was tasked with developing a mobile application in PhoneGap that utilized the Bluetooth feature. Although PhoneGap provides basic functionality, PhoneGap lacks the ability to implement mobile features like Bluetooth. However, …

Dependency Injection for Android Development: Part Two

Mark Fricke Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Java, Mobile, Tutorial 3 Comments

Attention: The following article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.Overview This is the second post in a series written on Dependency Injection for Android Development. In this blog, I will discuss how to take advantage of RoboGuice to inject views and other …