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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 5. Improving the User Interface and Device Interaction

So far, you've created your first app with PhoneGap, defined the building blocks of its interface, and learned to use the Splashscreen API. In this chapter, you will consolidate the app architecture and learn how to implement the navigation mechanics and how to handle the user interface according to the network status.

In this chapter you will:

  • Learn to compress your JavaScript and why this is especially important for a mobile app

  • Learn more about template engines and how to compress template files

  • Learn how to handle the user interface elements of your app when dealing with a retina display device

  • Understand the PhoneGap app lifecycle and how to interact with the device API

  • Create fluid, multiple views of your app using PhoneGap

  • Learn how to create hardware-accelerated transitions between application screens

  • Discover the PhoneGap connection APIs