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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

Can you take the HEAT? The Hotshot Challenge


As a project, Socializer does what it is set out to do, but there's actually so much more that you could do to it to make it truly useful. Why don't you try one or more of the following challenges:

  • Let the end user select their own initial Twitter accounts, instead of our initial five.

  • Display a loading graphic while the Twitter stream is loading so that the user knows that the app is working on something.

  • Style any links, mentions, or hashtags in the Twitter stream to make them stand out more.

  • Try your hand at working with the API of any other social network you like.

  • Try to add OAuth authentication.