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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

Comparing compression tools


I covered three of the most popular compression tools. Each tool has its pros and cons. As always, the right tool for you is the one that best fits your needs. The following table summarizes the results in bytes you can get compressing require.js 2.1.8 with the tools I just discussed:

File

Original size

Compressor

Size

require.js

82944

UglifyJS2

24576

Google Closure

13312

R.js

15360

As you can see, in this example, UglifyJS2 yields the best result but that is not always the case. If you run the same tests on the popular raphael.js library, you get instead the best result with Google Closure Compiler. The results vary depending on the source code writing style; for this reason there is no single best tool to use. I prefer r.js because it can run the compressor engine as well as handle the plugins and module dependencies very well.

Note

Other compression tools you may consider include KJScompress, Bananascript, JSMin, ShrinkSafe, and YUI Compressor.