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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

Integrating with the video thumbnail plugin


Next, we need to actually make the changes to our code so that we can display the video thumbnails. Open up the documentsView.html file under www/views so that you can follow along.

Getting ready

The theory behind displaying the thumbnails is much the same as displaying the thumbnails in our last project; that is, we're still using the canvas tag to speed up the feel of our app, and we're still generating thumbnails from JPEG files. The difference is that we have to generate those JPEG files from the video file.

Getting on with it

Let's start by taking a look at the documentIterator() method in the following code snippet:

documentsView.documentIterator = function(o)
  {
    var theHTML = "";
    var theNumberOfDocuments = 0;
    documentsView.documentToIndex = {};
    for (var i = 0; i < o.getDocumentCount(); i++)
    {
      var theDocumentEntry = o.getDocumentAtIndex(i);

      theHTML += PKUTIL.instanceOfTemplate($ge("documentsView_documentTemplate...