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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

Summary


In this chapter, we went through the basics of packaging your app before submission to the respective app stores. That's it for this book. We have covered quite a bit in this book in six chapters. In general, you should have a good idea of how to develop AngularJS apps and apply mobile skins on them so that it can be used on PhoneGap. You should also notice that developing for PhoneGap apps typically takes the pattern of creating a web app first, before converting it to a PhoneGap version. Of course, you may structure your project so that you can build a PhoneGap version from day one, but it may make testing more difficult. Anyway, I hope that you enjoyed this book and feel free to follow me at http://www.liangeugene.com and http://growthsnippets.com.