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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 – creating the templates


Create all the templates needed to start implementing the navigation between the views of your app.

  1. In your favorite editor create three new files named create-tpl.html, open-tpl.html, and share-tpl.html and save them in the tpl folder of your project.

  2. Use the previous code snippet in order to populate the create-tpl.html template and save it.

  3. From the same code, create the other two templates changing the id and the CSS class needed to render the right icon; the id needs to match the section name i.e., open and share) and the CSS class for the icon should be composed by the section name and the string -start (i.e., open-start and share-start).

What just happened?

You created the templates needed to render the welcome screen of each section of the app; the CSS needed to render the template are very simple and are available in the www/css folder of this chapter's source code, which you can find at https://github.com/GiorgioNatili/itinero/tree/features...