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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 our map view


In reality, the appearance of our map view will be fairly simple. Google Maps will take care of the interactive content (and scrolling it, thankfully), so our primary focus will be on the navigation bar and interacting with the Google Maps.

When we're done, we should have something that looks like the following on iOS:

The view on an Android device should be as follows:

Getting ready

We'll be working from the mapView.js file in the www/views directory, so go ahead and open it so you can follow along.

Getting on with it

Let's look at our HTML for the view first:

<div class="viewBackground">
  <div class="navigationBar">
    <div id="mapView_title"></div>
    <span style="display: block; position: absolute; right:10px; top: 6px; width:auto; text-align: right;">
    <span class="iconButton " id="mapView_trackButton" style="margin-right: 10px;" ></span>
    <span class="iconButton " id="mapView_actionButton" ></span>
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