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Idea behind App Five years ago  Cordova POC landed on App Store . I developed this App firstly to help me to dealt with hybrid mobile programming, afterwards I has evolved its concept give it a more marketing meaning as state below:   Cordova-POC helps to do demo of your Cordova app to customer on-the-fly. Idea is to connect multiple sources (online & offline) from which download HTML5 application’s bundle. You can package your demo app as zip file and put it on Dropbox or develop it directly on JSFiddle downloading it when you ready. Moreover Cordova-POC collects the deployed applications, providing a personal applications gallery, always ready to run. At that time was a pretty innovative idea, currently there are  a lot of app that allow to achieve similar goals. However I've tried to keep such App updated with major Cordova releases in particular for the IOS version that gained hundreds of downloads (objectively not so many but a good achievement for ...

What's new in 1.6  In this new IOS release, I've updated App to support version 5.0.0 of Cordova  ( IOS platform 3.8.0) Moreover, in this release, I've added a new feature particularly useful for who would like test the appearance of an application during development, in fact Cordova POC now is able to connect, directly, to the developer's work station  Connect The screenshot on the left shows the connect icon. Tap on it for connecting to a remote web server Settings The screenshot on the left shows the  settings  icon. Tap on it for update settings The screenshot on the right shows the  settings  dialog where you can update settings. Below a short video  that shows how it works Conclusion I hope that Cordova POC, and in particular this new feature, could help your work. So .... enjoy Cordova POC ( see it on App Store )  ( see it on Google Play ) 

What's new On the Feb 14, a GITHUB user  opened the  issue29 on the cordova-poc project that stated Dropbox.com cannot be reached in China Mainland. I think it is necessary to add support for Apple iCloud or Microsoft OneDrive so cordova-poc can be used inside China.Thanks. I didn't know, so i've worked on IOS app to introduce support for iCloud Drive  and finally the r elease 1.5 has been released on App Store How to use Setup iCloud It's pretty straightforward, it's enough to create a folder in your iCloud Drive named cordova-poc and put your cordova's app as zip archive in it. Enable iCloud on Device To access to iCloud service from Device you have to enable it. It is possible from settings panel following the  " get iCloud up and running on your iOS device in a few easy steps " a simple guide from Apple Use ICloud from Cordova Poc Once accomplished tasks above, run Codova Poc app goes in iCloud tab and will appear the view...

Hybrid Development At the moment, I'm a "mobile hybrid development" believer. HTML5 provides a lot a good stuff ready to use for mobile apps and to solve native access dilemma, i've choose to use the  Cordova (aka Phonegap ) framework. Cordova Cordova provides a container, built around a native WebView, that allow to embed an HTML5 app in native fashion. A great feature of Cordova is their " plugin's infrastructure " that enable communication between Javascript and native code giving to developers infinite possibility to break HTML5 limits and/or restrictions. Working with Cordova and developing plugins for IOS & Android  i've understood that common need for all plugins is just to send messages from Javascript that can be handle in native code and viceversa. So i've developed a generic plugin that extend the Cordova built-in message bus  connecting it to the standard native message bus  provided by native platform. The ...

why a release so time shortly ? After release 1.3.0 of  Cordova-POC    I have had some feedbacks about crash of application in various scenarios such as : At startup  Opening the showcase  Opening the JSFiddle tab On my devices, 4S+7.1.1/IPAD2+7.1.1, everything went well but the problem seemed happen only on 5s devices. After an investigation I have found the problem that was related to   Apache Cordova  implementation. Fortunately there was available also a  FIX  (Cordova 3.5.0 includes it by default).  I've applied such fix, tested and submitted the new 1.3.1 release of  Cordova-POC  to App Store.  Hope this release will solve all previous problems, while for the next release, the 1.4.0,  i've planned to add push support and a new view to show up the device log (for debug purpose) Thanks for patience and enjoy this new release of  Cordova-POC

What's the need When I started to develop mobile app, very soon I dealt with the ' porting ' dilemma I gave a look to HTML5 approach through  Cordova / Phonegap   project, but not always, the HTML5 stuff, seemed working as expected and this discouraged me to go in deep. Then I worked on native stuff and in the same time I followed the HTML5/mobile evolution When I found out services as  JSFiddle  and  Codepen.io  and I discovered the amount of HTML5's stuff already done and ready to use, I reviewed my mobile strategy and I've embraced the  mixed model  that is join native with HTML5. Why I thought to it? This great amount of the HTML5 snippets,  raised me an issue:  I want see them in action on mobile, quickly & easily,  and I want understand how them will appear inside a Cordova view. Even if setup a Cordova app using  cordova-cli  is pretty straightforward, there was the problem to setup a...