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PhoneGap 3 Beginner's Guide

By : Giorgio Natili
Book Image

PhoneGap 3 Beginner's Guide

By: Giorgio Natili

Overview of this book

<p>You don’t have to know complex languages like Objective C to compete in the ever-growing mobile market place. The PhoneGap framework lets you use your web development skills to build HTML and JavaScript-based mobile applications with native wrappers that run on all the major mobile platforms, including Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 8.</p> <p>"PhoneGap 3 Beginner's Guide" will help you break into the world of mobile application development. You will learn how to set up and configure your mobile development environment, implement the most common features of modern mobile apps, and build rich, native-style applications. The examples in this book deal with real use case scenarios, which will help you develop your own apps, and then publish them on the most popular app stores.</p> <p>Dive deep into PhoneGap and refine your skills by learning how to build the main features of a real world app.</p> <p>"PhoneGap 3 Beginner's Guide" will guide you through the building blocks of a mobile application that lets users plan a trip and share their trip information. With the help of this app, you will learn how to work with key PhoneGap tools and APIs, extend the framework’s functionality with plug-ins, and integrate device features such as the camera, contacts, storage, and more. By the time you’re finished, you will have a solid understanding of the common challenges mobile app developers face, and you will know how to solve them.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
PhoneGap 3 Beginner's Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 1. Getting Started with PhoneGap

PhoneGap is an application framework that enables you to build native applications using HTML and JavaScript. Think of PhoneGap as a web view container that is 100% width and 100% height, with a JavaScript programming interface that allows you to access operating system features. The main issue developers used to face with Apache Cordova/PhoneGap was the setup of the development environment and the dependencies with other IDEs. Since version 2.x, however, things have changed dramatically and now the setup is pretty straightforward. This chapter covers setting up your development environment.

In this chapter we will:

  • Get an overview of the history of Apache Cordova/PhoneGap

  • Learn how to configure your development environment configuring all the dependencies

  • Learn how to create a new project using Eclipse, Xcode, and Visual Studio

  • Learn how to create a common code base without using the CLI (Command Line Interface) tool released with the version 2.0