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PhoneGap and AngularJS for Cross-platform Development

By : Yuxian E Liang
Book Image

PhoneGap and AngularJS for Cross-platform Development

By: Yuxian E Liang

Overview of this book

PhoneGap is a mobile development framework that allows developers to build cross-platform mobile applications. Building PhoneGap apps is traditionally done using HTML, CSS, jQuery Mobile, Eclipse Editor, and/or Xcode. The process can be cumbersome, from setting up your editor to optimizing your usage of jQuery, and so on. However, AngularJS, a new but highly popular JavaScript framework, eases these tasks with APIs to get access to mobile APIs such as notifications, geo-location, accelerometers, and more. Starting with the absolute basics of building an AngularJS application, this book will teach you how to quickly set up PhoneGap apps using the command-line interface. You will learn how to create simple to advanced to-do lists and add authentication capabilities using PhoneGap's plugins. You will enhance your skills by writing a PhoneGap app using your newly learned AngularJS skills. Furthermore, you will learn about adding animation and interactive designs to your mobile web apps using PhoneGap plugins. By the end of the book, you will know everything you need to launch your app on both Android and iOS devices.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
PhoneGap and AngularJS for Cross-platform Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Preparing for PhoneGap development


We will now go quickly through the installation process for Android and iOS platforms. The basic instructions for this section can be found at http://docs.phonegap.com/en/3.3.0/guide_platforms_index.md.html#Platform%20Guides.

Installing Android

The instructions to install Android SDK can be found at http://docs.phonegap.com/en/3.3.0/guide_platforms_android_index.md.html#Android%20Platform%20Guide.

In order to benefit from this chapter, you need to follow the instructions till the point where you can run the Hello World example in your Android emulator. This will include things like installing the Android SDK, Eclipse Tools, and so on.

Installing iOS

If you are using Mac and want to develop an app for iOS, then you will need to install the SDK for iOS as well. In general, you will need to install Xcode from the App Store and you will need to register as an Apple Developer in order to deploy the app in the App Store.

You can follow the instructions given at http...