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Mastering PhoneGap Mobile Application Development

By : Kerri Shotts
Book Image

Mastering PhoneGap Mobile Application Development

By: Kerri Shotts

Overview of this book

PhoneGap is a useful and flexible tool that enables you to create complex hybrid applications for mobile platforms. In addition to the core technology, there is a large and vibrant community that creates third-party plugins that can take your app to the next level. This book will guide you through the process of creating a complex data-driven hybrid mobile application using PhoneGap, web technologies, and third-party plugins. A good foundation is critical, so you will learn how to create a useful workflow to make development easier. From there, the next version of JavaScript (ES6) and the CSS pre-processor SASS are introduced as a way to simplify creating the look of the mobile application. Responsive design techniques are also covered, including the flexbox layout module. As many apps are data-driven, you'll build an application throughout the course of the book that relies upon IndexedDB and SQLite. You'll also download additional content and address how to handle in-app purchases. Furthermore, you’ll build your own customized plugins for your particular use case. When the app is complete, the book will guide you through the steps necessary to submit your app to the Google Play and Apple iTunes stores.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering PhoneGap Mobile Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating an object store within the database


So far, our database can't store anything because we've not created an object store. If you're familiar with tables or schemas from relational databases, these are somewhat similar. And, of course, before we can store any objects in them, we have to first create a place for them to be stored.

The only time you can modify the structure of your database is in the onupgradeneeded handler. This handler is called whenever the database needs to be upgraded, which makes sense, but it's also called when the database is brand new.

In order to create an object store, we need to determine at least some of the properties we'll expect most objects to have. Although you can store any kind of objects you want with any number of properties, one does need a way of finding objects in the store without having to iterate over every stored object.

The primary mechanism for looking up an object is the object's key. This key can be a property that exists on all the objects...