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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 – compiling a template using pistachio


Compile the template created in Chapter 4, Architecting Your Mobile App, and eventually compress it using pistachio. Follow the given steps:

  1. Open your command-line tool and move to the tpl folders created in Chapter 4, Architecting Your Mobile App.

  2. Type the pistachio command and specify the name of the output file and the file to compile.

    $ pistachio --out=splash-tpl.js splash-tpl.html
    
  3. Create a build file named, for instance, template-build.js, for the existing template to use when compressing the file with UglifyJS2, specifying the template name and the desired output filename.

    ({
        name: 'splash-tpl',
        out: 'splash-built.js'
    }) 
  4. Run the r.js node module from the command-line tool.

    $ r.js -o template-build.js
    
  5. Open the file and check its syntax and size.

What just happened?

You created a compressed version of the template file that is stored in a variable. You can now request it in the modules of the app and avoid any unnecessary XMLHttpRequest...