It’s pretty simple to create animations with CSS3′s transition and animation properties. And the ability to hardware accelerate these effects gives you a lot of power to create a PhoneGap app UI with a native feel.

One issue I sometimes run into is firing an event after a transition has completed and/or chaining multiple transitions to occur one after another while keeping event control at the same time. I’m not talking about an overly complex series of animations, I just mean dealing with a couple of a transitions that occur one after another. There are two methods that I use in these situations.

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In September we tweeted a photo at RITH of a PhoneGap app we’d been working on. The photo showed the app running on quite a few iOS and Android phones and an iPad. One HTML5 app, running perfectly on many devices, all with different resolutions and pixel densities.

Following a retweet by PhoneGap we were contacted by Adobe’s new magazine, Appliness, to see if we’d like to write an article for their October issue. I jumped at the chance.

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I don’t think I’m alone when I say that the most important thing with a PhoneGap app is that it feels responsive to a users touch. It goes without saying that the easiest argument that web/hybrid app neigh-sayers have is touch response lag. The first thing they’re going to point fingers at and tweet to their native compadres is how many milliseconds it takes for a button to light up when it is touched.

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Making use of the device API is what makes PhoneGap so brilliant. What’s equally brilliant is how simple it is to integrate some of these functions within your app.

One of these functions is the native notification which can be used in place of, or in addition to, any error messages that you might need to display in your app.

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I love seeing what tools people use throughout a project lifecycle. Finding a tool that you can use every day is a great feeling.

I thought I’d share what I use during a project and pretty much every day at RITH:

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