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PhoneGap 3 Beginner's Guide

By : Giorgio Natili
Book Image

PhoneGap 3 Beginner's Guide

By: Giorgio Natili

Overview of this book

<p>You don’t have to know complex languages like Objective C to compete in the ever-growing mobile market place. The PhoneGap framework lets you use your web development skills to build HTML and JavaScript-based mobile applications with native wrappers that run on all the major mobile platforms, including Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 8.</p> <p>"PhoneGap 3 Beginner's Guide" will help you break into the world of mobile application development. You will learn how to set up and configure your mobile development environment, implement the most common features of modern mobile apps, and build rich, native-style applications. The examples in this book deal with real use case scenarios, which will help you develop your own apps, and then publish them on the most popular app stores.</p> <p>Dive deep into PhoneGap and refine your skills by learning how to build the main features of a real world app.</p> <p>"PhoneGap 3 Beginner's Guide" will guide you through the building blocks of a mobile application that lets users plan a trip and share their trip information. With the help of this app, you will learn how to work with key PhoneGap tools and APIs, extend the framework’s functionality with plug-ins, and integrate device features such as the camera, contacts, storage, and more. By the time you’re finished, you will have a solid understanding of the common challenges mobile app developers face, and you will know how to solve them.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
PhoneGap 3 Beginner's Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

A note about the command-line tool


Across this book you will widely use command-line tool, if you are on a Mac or on a Linux machine the commands you can type in the tool are almost the same. On Mac the command-line tool is named Terminal and you can find it by navigating to Applications | Utilities | Terminal. On Linux you refer again to the command-line tool with the word "Terminal" but its location varies accordingly to the Linux distribution you are using. In Gnome, the classic desktop environment for Ubuntu 11.04, you can find the Terminal by navigating to Applications | Accessories | Terminal. In Xfce you can find the Terminal by navigating to Applications | System | Terminal.

On a Windows machine the command-line tool is named MS-DOS prompt and can be opened by typing cmd and pressing Enter, in the start menu. The commands syntax is different from the Mac or Linux one, the most relevant differences are summarized in the following table:

Command

Terminal

MS-DOS prompt

Copy Files

cp

copy

Edit text files

vi

edit

Compare files

diff

fc

Browse files

ls

dir

Clear screen

clear

cls

Create a symbolic link

ln

mklink