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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

Time for action – setting up Windows Phone using PhoneGap 2.x


If you want to start building a Windows Phone app using PhoneGap you have to work on a Windows machine (physical or virtual). Once you have access to the machine follow these steps:

  1. Download the SDK available at http://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/downloadsdk or install a 90 days trial of Visual Studio available at http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads.

  2. Go to the PHONEGAP_ROOT/lib/windows-phone-8/templates/standalone folder and open the file CordovaSolution.sln using Visual Studio.

  3. Export the template in order to use it when creating new PhoneGap projects, navigate to File | Export Template.

    Tip

    Remember to check the option Automatically Import the Template into Visual Studio in order to have the template available in the Visual Studio project wizard.

  4. Restart Visual Studio.

What just happened?

You installed a new template in Visual Studio you will find the template available in the C# branch. The template includes all the PhoneGap sources so that you can emulate and build your app easily.