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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

Time for action – setting up iOS using PhoneGap 2.x


The steps to setup the iOS development environment and to create a PhoneGap with iOS as target are very similar to the Android setup. Follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the bin/ios folder of the current PhoneGap installation and launch the ./create tool:

    $ cd phonegap-phonegap-2.0.0/lib/android/bin
    $ ./create ~/PhoneGapProjects/PGGettinStarted/ch01/ios com.gnstudio.
    samples.cordova.hello HelloPG
    

    The syntax is the same as the ./create command used for Android with the exception of the target path, which is a subfolder of the iOS one. The result is a folder structure familiar to Objective-C developers:

       |-HelloPG
       |-HelloPG.xcodeproj
       |-build
       |-cordova
       |-www
  2. Run the ./emulate command from the cordova folder, the result is that the iOS emulator is opened without the need to open XCode with the PhoneGap app running:

    $ cd ~/PhoneGapProjects/PGGettinStarted/ch01/ios
    $ ./emulate
    

What just happened?

You created a PhoneGap project using iOS as the target platform and emulated the app using the iOS Emulator.

Note

If you are on Windows and you want to be able to use the Linux syntax used throughout this book you can download and install Cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com/.