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JavaScript Mobile Application Development

By : Saleh
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JavaScript Mobile Application Development

By: Saleh

Overview of this book

If you are a native mobile developer, with some familiarity with the common web technologies of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, or if you are a web developer, then this learning guide will add great value and impact to your work. Learning how to develop mobile applications using Apache Cordova is of particular importance if you are looking to develop applications on a variety of different platforms efficiently.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Index

Exploring the Cordova Exhibition app


The Cordova Exhibition app aims at showing the main features of the Apache Cordova API. The demo shows practical examples of the following Apache Cordova API plugins:

  • Accelerometer

  • Camera

  • Compass

  • Connection

  • Contacts

  • Device

  • Geolocation

  • Globalization

  • InAppBrowser

  • Media, file, and capture

  • Notification

  • Storage

As well as Apache Cordova, the Cordova Exhibition app uses jQuery Mobile in order to create the app's user interface. The Cordova Exhibition app is supported on the following platforms:

  • Android

  • iOS

  • Windows Phone 8

The following screenshot shows the home page of the Cordova Exhibition app. The home page displays a list from which users can choose the feature they want to try.

The Cordova Exhibition home page

In this chapter and the next one, we will explore each feature individually in its own section.