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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 – programmatically opening a modal window using Bootstrap


In order open a popup in your PhoneGap app based on Bootstrap, you have to perform the following steps:

  1. A framework like Bootstrap makes it easy to define a modal window; all you have to do is add the CSS classes modal, hide, and fade into a div tag and assign to it an ID (for example, myModal) that can be used as an anchor in the href attribute of the link you want to use to open the window.

    <div class="modal hide fade in" id="myModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">
      <div class="modal-header">
        <!-- All the tags needed to render the modal window here -->
      </div>
    </div>
  2. In order to use the Apache Cordova APIs, you have to include the cordova-3.x.y.js file in the index.html file; it is also good practice to include the main JavaScript file and initialize the app.

    <script type="text/javascript" src="cordova.js"></script>
    <script...