Re: anybody using PhoneGap with Django

Current stack:

Backend:

Django

Django-rest-framework with JSON-P and/or CORS enabled to allow X-domain requests from Phonegap apps. 

Django admin for data editing and entry.

Other stuff specific to our app and/or server setup. 

Front end:

Backbone.js for structure.  The json from my rest-framework API's essentially become the backbone models.  

Underscore.js templates 

Jquery for direct dom manipulations and querying within backbone views. 

Require.js for modules & minimification

PhoneGap to wrap it all up and get it in.

We currently run the same code base as mobile web site (with a few hooks to determine whether its operating under a phonegap wrapper or just on the web.). So, this can be done, if you're careful and plan for it.

We're pretty happy with this model and its been in production for about a year now, with a few different apps.  High level, I can't really think of another way to do a PhoneGap app besides Django-as-a-backend-and-API + a  Javascript MVC (pick your framework, we went with Backbone) on the front end.

Feel free to ping me privately if you have other questions 

Ben Roberts

On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:10:45 AM UTC-7, Larry Savage wrote:

Great idea!  Any update on this one?

On Friday, July 8, 2011 1:41:02 PM UTC-4, br wrote:

I am currently in the middle of a project where we are planning on
using Django with PhoneGap . . . Haven't completed yet, or gotten to
the PhoneGap part of it, so can't report its success or not yet.

Basically, we are using jQuery Mobile to develop a complete mobile
application that operates on a pair of cached JSON objects, one to
define the page flow of the application and the page contents, and the
other to store form results to be returned to the server or stored in
localstorage.  I am not using Django templates for anything, but
rather just going to use TastyPie to provide a REST interface for the
app's models in order to provide and receive the JSON objects to and
from the front end. So essentially- just using Django for the back
end. We also looked at Sencha touch vs. jQMobile for the front end but
went with jQ Mobile because my front end developer was much more
comfortable with it and was already familiar with jQuery.  Once we get
the thing working as an addressable mobile web app, we intend to
package and wrap it as a PhoneGap app.   I can post an update on our
success or failures in a month or so when the project has come
together more.  As of now, just he front end is completed to operate
on the JSON objects and I am working on the models and REST interface
for it.

Ben

On Jul 8, 8:01 am, Brian Bouterse <bmbou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would be interested to hear this as well...
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> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:44 AM, John Fabiani <jo...@jfcomputer.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday, July 07, 2011 08:48:51 pm Andy McKay wrote:
> > > On 2011-07-07, at 2:22 PM, John Fabiani wrote:
> > > > I'm wondering if anyone has had any success with PhoneGap and Django?
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> > > Yes.
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> > >   Andy McKay
> > >   a...@clearwind.ca
> > >   twitter: @andymckay
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> > LOL - I guess I could have asked a better question.  Can I assume you have
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> > success with Django and PhoneGap?  If so would you take the time to explain
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> > a general your experience with PhoneGap.  I have been told that the
> > combination is very slow - although I don't see any reason that it would
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> > I was also told that debugging was very difficult.
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