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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 – accessing the device API


You already used the deviceready event in Chapter 4, Architecting Your Mobile App, to handle the bootstrap of our app. Use the device API to get information about the type of device you are running once the event is fired.

  1. Open the command-line tool and create a new PhoneGap project using the Cordova-client utility you installed in Chapter 3, Getting Started with Mobile Applications.

    $ cordova create ~/the/path/to/your/source DeviceApi
    
  2. Move to the directory you just created, add the platforms you want to test on the device API and install the device API plugin.

    $ cordova platform add android
    $ cordova platform add ios
    $ cordova plugin add https: //git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cordova-plugin-device.git
    
  3. In the www folder inside the project folder you just created, open the index.html file and add div with id to render the device information gathered using the PhoneGap API.

    <p id='deviceInfo'>Loading device properties...</p>
  4. Define a listener...