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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 the main view


Our main view is pretty simple visually, but it is definitely complex underneath. Let's take a look at how the final result will appear. First, this is how it looks when recording:

Next, this is how it looks after the recording:

If we swipe on the newly recorded item, we get the Delete button as shown in the next screenshot:

If we long press on the recorded item, the following screen will appear:

Getting ready

Go ahead and open the documentsView.js file in www/views so that you can follow along.

Getting on with it

Let's first go over the HTML for our view. The first portion (with class viewBackground) is like all the previous projects, so we'll skip that portion and go straight to the template that shows each list item on the screen, seen in the following code block:

<div id="documentsView_documentTemplate" class="hidden">
  <div class="documentContainer" 
    id="documentsView_item%INDEX%">
    <div class="documentTapArea" 
      id="documentsView_item...