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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 image view


The image view itself is very simple: all it does is display a single image along with two icons in the toolbar (Delete and Share). Here's how our view will look, first for iOS:

For Android, the view is as follows:

Getting ready

If you want to follow along, the code is in www/views/imageView.js.

Getting on with it

Typically we'd start with the HTML for the view, but this is very similar to the previous project. Instead we'll start with the template used to display the image:

<div id="imageView_documentTemplate" class="hidden">
  <img src="%SRC%" width=100% />
</div>

This is probably the simplest template we've ever had. It is literally just an image with a specified width. The height will be inferred from the aspect ratio of the image.

Like the template, the code is going to very simple as well:

  var imageView = $ge("imageView") || {};
  imageView.imagePath = "";
  imageView.imageIndex = -1;
  imageView.setImage = function ( imagePath, imageIndex...