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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

Configuring the plugins


Most PhoneGap plugins aren't terribly hard to install or configure, but they will undoubtedly play a vital role in your app, especially if you need to use a feature that PhoneGap doesn't provide on its own.

In our case, we need two plugins, one to display websites within our app and another to share the content. For the first, we'll be using a plugin called ChildBrowser across all the platforms we support, but for the latter, we'll have to use a separate plugin for iOS and Android.

Here's what each sharing plugin will look like when we're done, starting with iOS:

For Android the sharing plugin will look like the following:

Getting ready

If you haven't already, you should download the entire community PhoneGap plugin repository located at https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins. This will provide you with nearly all the content necessary to use the plugins.

If you wish to support sharing on iOS, you also need to download ShareKit 2.0, which is available at https://github...