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JavaScript Mobile Application Development

By : Saleh

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JavaScript Mobile Application Development

4.8 (4)

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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. An Introduction to Apache Cordova

1. An Introduction to Apache Cordova

What is Apache Cordova?

The differences between mobile web, hybrid mobile, and native mobile applications

Why you should use Cordova

Cordova architecture

Overview of Cordova APIs

Summary

2. Developing Your First Cordova Application

2. Developing Your First Cordova Application

An introduction to Cordova CLI

Developing Sound Recorder application

Building and running Sound Recorder application

Summary

3. Apache Cordova Development Tools

3. Apache Cordova Development Tools

Configuring Android development environment

Configuring iOS development environment

Configuring the Windows Phone development environment

Summary

4. Cordova API in Action

4. Cordova API in Action

Exploring the Cordova Exhibition app

The Cordova Exhibition app structure

Accelerometer

Camera

Compass

Connection

Contacts

Device

Geolocation

Globalization

InAppBrowser

Summary

5. Diving Deeper into the Cordova API

5. Diving Deeper into the Cordova API

Media, file, and capture

Notification

Storage

Finalizing the Cordova Exhibition app

Cordova events

Summary

6. Developing Custom Cordova Plugins

6. Developing Custom Cordova Plugins

Developing a custom Cordova plugin

Developing Android code

Developing iOS code

Developing Windows Phone 8 code

Publishing our plugin to Cordova Registry

Testing our Cordova plugin

Summary

7. Unit Testing the Cordova App's Logic

7. Unit Testing the Cordova App's Logic

What is Jasmine

Configuring Jasmine

Writing your first Jasmine test

Jasmine Matchers

Jasmine in action – developing Cordova app tests

Automating tests using Karma

Summary

8. Applying it All – the Mega App

8. Applying it All – the Mega App

Mega App specification/wireframes

Preparing for the Mega App

The Mega App architecture

The Mega App model and API

The Mega App user interface

Finalizing Mega App

Deploying and running Mega App

Start contributing to Mega App

Summary

Index

Index

Connection

The connection plugin provides information about the connection type of the device. In order to use the connection plugin in our Apache Cordova project, we need to use the following cordova plugin add command:

> cordova plugin add https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cordova-plugin-network-information.git

Demo

In order to access the connection demo, you can click on the Connection list item. You will be introduced to the Connection page. You can click on the Get Connection Type button in order to know the current connection type of your device, as shown in the following screenshot:

Getting the device's connection type

The HTML page

The following code snippet shows the "connection" page:

<div data-role="page" id="connection">
    <div data-role="header">
        <h1>Connection</h1>
        <a href="#" data-role="button" data-rel="back" data-icon="back">Back</a>
    </div>
    <div data-role="content">
        <h1>Welcome to...

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