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PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development HOTSHOT

By : Kerri Shotts
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PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development HOTSHOT

By: Kerri Shotts

Overview of this book

<p>Do you want to create mobile apps that run on multiple mobile platforms? With PhoneGap (Apache Cordova), you can put your existing development skills and HTML, CSS, and JavaScript knowledge to great use by creating mobile apps for cross-platform devices.</p> <p>"PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development Hotshot" covers the concepts necessary to let you create great apps for mobile devices. The book includes ten apps varying in difficulty that cover the gamut – productivity apps, games, and more - that are designed to help you learn how to use PhoneGap to create a great experience.</p> <p>"PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development Hotshot" covers the creation of ten apps, from their design to their completion, using the PhoneGap APIs. The book begins with the importance of localization and how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript interact to create the mobile app experience. The book then proceeds through mobile apps of various genres, including productivity apps, entertainment apps, and games. Each app covers specific items provided by PhoneGap that help make the mobile app experience better. This book covers the camera, geolocation, audio and video, and much more in order to help you create feature-rich mobile apps.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development HOTSHOT
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
InstallingShareKit 2.0
Index

Game Over..... Wrapping it up


Wow, we've been through a lot together in this first project. We've learned a lot too, including:

  • How to properly localize text

  • How to properly localize numbers

  • How to properly localize dates

  • How to properly localize images

  • How to properly localize HTML

  • How to implement simple HTML templates

  • How to create a new view

  • How to display the view

  • How to push a new view onscreen, and pop a view offscreen

  • How to handle the Android/WP7 back button

  • How to include files within our JavaScript

  • How to determine the user's locale

  • How to initialize jQuery/Globalize and load the locales we might need

There are some resources that you might find interesting. You might want to look through the YASMF documentation to learn more about the framework we're using. Some of these resources are mentioned as follows: