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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

Installing dependencies


In order to be ready to build a PhoneGap app it's mandatory to download and install the latest SDKs for each target platform of the app from the respective official websites:

Once the SDKs are installed it's recommended to install also the client for GitHub. GitHub is a social coding platform where you can find most of the cool open source projects (such as Apache Cordova), including access to the latest patches, builds, and sources.

For OSX users it is important to install also ios-sim. The ios-sim tool is a command-line utility that launches an iOS app on the simulator. To install the tool, download it from GitHub, expand it, and launch a command line tool as follows:

$ curl -L https: //github.com/phonegap/ios-sim/zipball/1.3 -o ios-sim-1.3.zip$ unzip ios-sim-1.3.zip
$ rake install prefix=/usr/local/

Depending on your privileges you may have to run the rake command as an administrator (i.e., adding sudo in front of the rake command).