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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 10. Capturing and Manipulating Device Media

Mobility and portability of media are key points in our new social media life. The capability to access the device's media enables us to create apps that integrate different media in the communication flow. Using the device Camera your app can capture pictures and videos or access to the existing ones. Through the device's default audio record application the app can capture or play audio tracks.

In this chapter you will:

  • Learn about the Camera API and how to configure the way the app accesses device pictures

  • Understand the differences between the PhoneGap Camera and Capture APIs

  • Learn how to control the position of the camera roll dialog box on an iPad

  • Learn how to use the PhoneGap Capture API to access existing pictures, video, and audio files or to get a new one through the default device applications

  • Learn how to integrate HTML5 and JavaScript to manipulate pictures in your native app