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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 data model


For the first time, our data model is going to be remarkably simple. There's really not a lot to keep track of here. In a way, our data model is exactly replicated by what is in persistent storage—the images themselves.

Getting on with it

Just like in prior tasks, we do have a document collection model that reads all the images in persistent storage and lets our document view interact with them. There has been almost no change in this particular model (save for the name), so we won't cover it here.

What we will cover is not quite a data model, but still important. When a user taps the Edit button, we want them to be able to select multiple pictures for a batch operation (such as delete). To do this, we need to keep track of which images are selected, and which ones aren't.

The model itself is so simple that it doesn't actually have its own code file. It's just an array combined with a single property that indicates if we are in selection mode or not. This is what it...