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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

Designing the user interface


First, get your paper and pencil out or use your favorite image editor. Like in previous projects, we'll design our views using sketches and wireframes first, then flesh them out a bit more to design the graphical assets.

Getting on with it

As in previous projects, the first view is the start view, but since it is the same as all the prior apps, we won't go into detail about it here (refer to the Designing the UI/interactions section of Project 1, Let's Get Local!). Instead, let's go to the documents view, shown in the following screenshot:

In this view we've actually got two looks; the left is for the iPhone, while the right is for Android. The reason for the two different looks is simply how a lot of apps do things on each platform. You typically see large, horizontal scrolling interfaces on iOS, and on Android you typically see vertical lists representing files.

Let's go over how this view works. The button in the navigation bar, named Create, allows the user...