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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

From web to PhoneGap


If you remember, in the previous section, I briefly mentioned that making calls to Facebook using the JavaScript SDK is now slightly different in PhoneGap, compared to the web-based version. Instead of a simplistic FB.login() call in the web version, we need to make a facebookConnectPlugin.login() call in the PhoneGap version. In this section, we'll take careful steps to port our code from the web-based version to a PhoneGap version.

Importing Facebook and PhoneGap plugins

First, we need to import Facebook- and PhoneGap-related plugins. We also need to slightly change how we initiate the FB object. So going back to your index.html file, here's what you need to do:

<!doctype html>
<html ng-app="todoApp">
  <head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.3/css/bootstrap.min.css">
    <style>
    body {
      padding: 40px 20px 0 20px;
    }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
  <div id="fb...