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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 – configuring Node.js and weinre


At first glance, using weinre may look complicated but if you follow these steps you will be able to debug any app from your desktop:

  1. Download and install Node.js from http://nodejs.org/.

  2. Install the package manager npm available at https://npmjs.org/.

  3. Install weinre using the command-line tool:

     $ npm install weinre -g
    
  4. Start weinre using boundHost as your network IP address (i.e., the one other devices can use in your LAN to reach your computer):

    $ weinre -boundHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
    
  5. Copy in the head of your page the script needed to include the JavaScript that enables remote debugging:

    <script src="http: //xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/target/target-script.js#anonymous"></script>
  6. Build your app, install it on a real device connected to the same LAN, and start debugging it.

Be sure to use the right IP address and to add the script tag at the beginning of the page; if you follow these two steps carefully, you're up and running with weinre in no...