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PhoneGap 3.x Mobile Application Development HOTSHOT

By : Kerri Shotts
Book Image

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

About the Reviewers

Gerard Braad is an all-rounder when it comes to IT. He has used many programming languages on both the frontend and backend as well as mobile solutions. He is currently working in the Beijing office of ThoughtWorks.

Steve Husting wears various hats by day, including that of a website worker, in a company that designs and manufactures radio-controlled hobby cars. By night, he writes, does calligraphy, and creates iPhone and Android apps. He posts his findings about PhoneGap app development on his blog, http://iphonedevlog.wordpress.com, which is geared towards beginners.

Dhaval Nagar is an experienced Java and mobile developer who started developing JEE applications in 2006. He has been developing mobile/tablet applications since 2011 and has experience working on all major mobile platforms. His first experience with mobile devices began in 2008 on a Psion handheld computer.

At present, he is running his own software development and consulting business. Prior to that, he was working as a software architect, developing large-scale industrial software using Java, EJB, JMS, Spring, and so on. Now, he is focused on developing Cordova-based mobile applications for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry platforms. Besides mobile applications, he is also working on JavaScript-based frameworks such as NodeJS, Meteor, Famo.us, and AngularJS.

He lives in Surat, Gujarat, India, and can be reached at

Julio César Sánchez has been a professional software developer since 2007. Over the years, he has worked with different technologies, most of them related to the Web. In 2010, he discovered PhoneGap and has been following the PhoneGap Google Group since then—learning, helping other developers, and even contributing by creating PhoneGap plugins. He spends a part of his spare time developing mobile apps and writing tutorials about PhoneGap development for the website http://www.phonegap.es. You can visit his personal website to know more about him and his work at http://www.jcesarmobile.com or follow him on Twitter @jcesarmobile.

Rajpal A. Vishal is a mobile application developer with extensive experience in developing multi-platform mobile applications using Appcelerator Titanium and PhoneGap. He has contributed plugins to both the communities and is currently pursuing his Master's in Computer Science from Northeastern University, Seattle.