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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 – populating a local database


In order to reinforce what you just learned, you will create a new local database, add a table to it, and write and read some data. In order to avoid a long code listing, I removed trivial portions from the code such as HTML tags injecting.

  1. Return to the project you created for the previous example, open the index.html file, and add to the markup two select tags in order to let the user pick up a departure country and an arrival one. Make the two select tags required and set up a default option to explain to the user what to do:

    <select id='departure' required>
      <option disabled selected value=''>Select a country</option>
      <!-- All the other options here --> 
    </select>
    <select id='arrival' required>
      <option disabled selected value=''>Select a country</option>
      <!-- All the other options here --> 
    </select>
  2. Add the Contacts API plugin using the command line:

    $ cordova plugins add https...