Adobe PhoneGap Newsletter

July 2013

Adobe PhoneGap 3.0 is released!

We did it! PhoneGap 3.0 released on July 19th at our 3rd annual PhoneGap Day in Portland, OR. We had nearly 250 attendees who helped us celebrate this major milestone -- thank you!

Here are some major new features from PhoneGap 3.0:

• New plugin architecture - Our plugin architecture keeps your app small and fast. You only include the APIs you need and plugins can be automatically installed and removed.

• Better tools - We’ve made it easier to quickly shift between native platforms without learning new vocabularies by aligning the native platform CLI tooling. Don’t have a native platform SDK installed? No problem! Our tools now integrate with PhoneGap Build.

• New platforms - Earlier this year we welcomed support for iOS6 (with work on iOS7 happening now!), Windows Phone 8, and BlackBerry 10. Firefox OS and Ubuntu are coming soon.

• New APIs - Welcome to two new APIs – InAppBrowser (formerly known as the ChildBrowser plugin) and Globalization API.

Thank you to the whole PhoneGap/Apache Cordova community for all their hard work!

PhoneGap Build's newest feature: User-Submitted Plugins

We are pleased to announce the availability of a new PhoneGap Build feature called User Submitted Plugins. This new feature allows you to customize the functionality of your app with plugins like Push Notifications, Facebook Connect and more. Check out what plugins are currently available.

Have a plugin to contribute? Anyone can submit a plugin to PhoneGap Build, and once approved, it will become available for the entire PhoneGap Build community to enjoy. Learn more about submitting a plugin.

Featured PhoneGap App: My Heart Camera

We all love to take pictures with our smartphones and share it with our friends and family. So we were thrilled to hear about a hugely popular app from Japan, My Heart Camera. It has soared to the top of the charts to become the #1 photo app in the Japan, Hong-Kong, Taiwan iTunes App Stores.

My Heart Camera picks up on the fun of decorating photos with a theme of love and hearts. Perfect for romantics, My Heart Camera comes stocked with tons of graphics and text to sweeten your shot. To make those images appear straight from the heart, Ryo Kawanobe and the My Heart Camera team used the proximity sensor plugin to make images 'magically' appear when the user’s phone comes close to a surface. Put your phone to your heart and…viola! Without direct contact, images appear as if jumping from your heart to your screen.

"The culture of "Deco" (photo-decoration) is a big part of Japanese youth culture. With that in mind, we decided to create a photo editing app witha simple heart theme. We added an auto-decoration function that is amazing and heart warming to this app," said Ryo Kawanobe. "As we are web developers, we choose PhoneGap because we wanted the flexibility to release on both iOS and Android while also being able to easily access plugins."

Download My Heart Camera

PhoneGap Day EU and PhoneGap Day BR

Save the Dates!

PhoneGap Day EU - Sept 24 in Amsterdam
PhoneGap Day BR - Nov 26 in Rio de Janeiro

Now that we're done with PhoneGap Day US, we've got our sights set on our next PhoneGap Day. Look out Amsterdam, we're coming for you! We'll be hosting pre-conference workshops on Sept 23rd and PhoneGap Day EU will be Sept 24th. Stay tuned for full details.

Good news South America! We've had our eyes on Brazil for a long time and we're stoked to finally visit and meet with the community in Rio de Janeiro on Nov 26. Full details will be coming soon.

Visit the PhoneGap Day Site