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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

Exploring the sample app


The itinero sample app is a social trip planner that lets you plan an affordable trip all around the world. Using itinero you can plan a trip defining the destination, how you want to travel there, where you want to sleep, and which kind of accommodation you are searching for. The app uses external services to get all the information you need, relying on the API of the most popular travelling social networks.

Once your trip is planned you can start to document it adding one image and one word per day. At the end of the trip you can share your experience on Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest.

The following list summarizes the main features of the app and the PhoneGap API that will be used to implement these features:

  • The app shows a splash screen to handle the startup time of the app (navigator.splashScreen API)

  • The app's user-interface components are enabled according to the device connection status (navigator.connection API)

  • The app lets the user add a contact to the planned...