Introducing Poncho: a simple weather app for Android and iPhone

Introducing Poncho: a simple weather app for Android and iPhone

Poncho is a dead simple mobile web app for viewing current and next-day weather conditions. It works on Android and iOS, although it’s tailored for non-tablet smartphone devices like Android phones, iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s a mobile web app instead of a native app, so it may work on even more platforms, but I haven’t tested it on anything else. If you go to app.getponcho.com on your device’s browser, you can bookmark and/or add the app to your homescreen and run it virtually just like a native app.

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Touch “slide to unlock” in Mobile Safari

Touch “slide to unlock” in Mobile Safari

I've been reading a bit about implementing touch interfaces recently at work. I didn't realize that, for the most part, it's as easy as attaching Javascript touch events to DOM elements - just like you would with any other events in Javascript. The other thing that is a major help with Mobile Safari development is using the new CSS3 properties for animations and such. Thankfully, since you're primarily tagerting Mobile Safari/Webkit, you don't need to worry too much about […]

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