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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

Adding animations to your web app


Adding animations is surprisingly easy using AngularJS. The ngAnimate module of AngularJS will take users there with CSS animations.

We'll start by adding animation to our web app before porting it over to PhoneGap. To do this, head back to your web-based version of the code and open index.html. There are three changes that you need to make:

  1. Add a new index.css file.

  2. Add class="todos" in your <div ng-view> </div>.

  3. Add <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.3.0-beta.7/angular-animate.min.js"></script> to the list of imported JavaScript.

  4. The end result of your code in index.html should look like this:

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