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PhoneGap 3.x Mobile Application Development HOTSHOT

By : Kerri Shotts
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PhoneGap 3.x Mobile Application Development HOTSHOT

By: Kerri Shotts

Overview of this book

<p>PhoneGap allows you to use your existing knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create useful and exciting mobile applications.<br /><br />This book will present you with 12 exciting projects that will introduce you to the dynamic world of app development in PhoneGap. Starting with their design and following through to their completion, you will develop real-world mobile applications. Each app uses a combination of core PhoneGap technologies, plugins, and various frameworks covering the necessary concepts you can use to create many more great apps for mobile devices.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
PhoneGap 3.x Mobile Application Development HOTSHOT
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

What do we build?


Our Filer app can now handle text and audio notes. In this project, we'll extend it to handle photo notes. We'll interact with the device's camera in order to allow the user to take a picture and attach it to their notes.

What does it do?

The primary focus for this project is interacting with the Camera API provided by Cordova/PhoneGap. You'll learn how to capture images and how to adjust various options in order to achieve the kinds of images you need for your app.

Why is it great?

Because we've designed our app to support multiple types of notes, it's going to be incredibly easy to add image support to our app. Even so, we'll cover some of the potential issues that come with working with the camera. We'll also talk a little about performance while displaying many thumbnails at once.

How are we going to do it?

We'll follow the same process we've been using thus far. This is what we'll be doing:

  • Designing the user interface

  • Designing the data model

  • Covering the Camera API

  • Implementing...