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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

What do we build?


We will build a fairly simple app with one purpose: to store and play back the end user's recordings, whatever they may be. They could be a short memo or a meeting. We'll be using a lot of our existing framework, and there's not a lot visually, but there is a lot going on underneath to support audio playback and recording.

What does it do?

In this project, you will be able to play and record audio. We'll be recording to the WAV format for iOS and the AMR format for Android. Other platforms support other formats, so if you are targeting a platform other than Android or iOS, be sure to double-check what formats are supported.

You'll also be able to play audio; we'll support both MP3 and WAV on Android and WAV on iOS (the primary reason we exclude MP3 for iOS here is a bug that causes MP3 format audios to render with horrible quality and extremely loud volume).

Why is it great?

There's another reason why this project is so great: we're introducing gesture support. That's right...