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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

Appendix B. Publishing Your App

One of the best features of PhoneGap is that it allows you to create a cross-platform app using the same code base. It means that you can reuse most of the code but you still have to build the app for each target platform. You can do this by configuring the development environment for each platform you want to support or you can use online services such as PhoneGap Build Services http://build.phonegap.com or Icenium http://www.icenium.com/. Both are cloud-based services; the main difference is that PhoneGap Build Services supports all the platforms whereas Icenium supports only the Android and iOS platforms but does come with a very nice online editor. Once the builds are ready, you have to follow a different workflow for each target platform.

Note

Also, if you are dealing with cross-platform development when using PhoneGap, it's always a good habit to use a testing device for each platform during the development phase and when preparing the build.