Marcelo Emmerich IT Consulting

With the adoption of HTML5 and CSS3 in mobile browsers, WebApp development is a serious alternative to native App development. I have spoken about this topic with many people with different backgrounds; native app developers, web developers, server developers, marketing and project managers, etc. One alleged advantage of the adoption of WebApp development that gets mentioned very often is that existing web development know-how can be leveraged.
I believe this is mostly not the case. Read on to discover why.

In this article I will show how to send encrypted data from a server running PHP to an iPhone. The data is encrypted using 128bit AES.

The SmartFox Server is a popular massive multiplayer platform. With the release of RC3 of their iPhone SDK, you can now seamlessly develop iPhone client for multiplayer games. However, there are still some pitfalls in the process. One of them being getting the SDK to compile when added to an existing iPhone project. In this article I will how to get around those compilation problems.

Submitting forms that issue an AJAX request without reloading or navigating away from the current page is a well-known problem in the desktop world. Some of the most widely spread JavaScript libraries like jQuery have built-in support for AJAX form submission. However, in the mobile world things look a bit different. Read on to learn from my experiences in a real-world project developed for the iPhone as a WebApp with Phonegap.

In this article I will share my experiences developing the Knausermeister mobile app using phonegap. Read on to discover why I chose phonegap and how I set up the projects for both iPhone and Android. Also I will discuss some of the problems I ran into and how I got around them.