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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 a native-like CSS for your app


In order to quickly create a native iOS-like UI of a PhoneGap app, perform the following steps:

  1. Open the first ever developed iOS web app: Change the user agent of your browser and navigate to the iPhone user guide available on the Apple Developer site http://help.apple.com/iphone/; you will load in the browser HTML and CSS that really look similar to a native app.

  2. Grab the CSS and the images: Open the Web Inspector and download all the images from the Resource panel; locate and grab the CSS file from the Network one (or pull the project from GitHub https://github.com/cheeaun/hnmobile).

  3. Use the CSS and the images in your project: Change the CSS file according to your needs and use it across the view of your app.

What just happened?

You created the building blocks of the styles of your app for iOS. As you can see from the following screenshots, the results look great and approximate a native app look and feel:

Have a go hero – improve...