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PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development HOTSHOT

By : Kerri Shotts
Book Image

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

Implementing the data model


We'll be creating two files: namely, twitter.js and twitterUsers.js. Place these in the www/models directory.

Getting on with it

Let's start with the twitter.js file:

var TWITTER = TWITTER || {};

As always, we define our namespace, in this case, TWITTER, as seen in the following code snippet:

TWITTER._baseURL = "http://api.twitter.com/1/";
TWITTER._searchBase = "http://search.twitter.com/";

We define two variables global to the TWITTER namespace: namely, _baseURL and _searchBase. These two URLs point at Twitter's JSON API; the first is for API requests such as user lookups, user streams, and such, while the latter is only for searching. We define them here for two reasons: to make the URLs a little less nasty in the following code, and if Twitter should ever decide to have a different version of the API (and you want to change it), you can do so here.

Next, we define our first object, TwitterUser:

TWITTER.TwitterUser = function ( theScreenName, completion )
{
    var...