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Phonegap for Enterprise

Phonegap for Enterprise

By : Kerri Shotts
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Phonegap for Enterprise

Phonegap for Enterprise

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By: Kerri Shotts
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Overview of this book

This book is intended for developers who wish to use PhoneGap to develop useful, rich, secure mobile applications for their enterprise environment. The book assumes you have working knowledge of PhoneGap, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, and a reasonable understanding of networking and n-tier architectures.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. PhoneGap and Enterprise Mobility
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1. PhoneGap and Enterprise Mobility
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Why PhoneGap/Cordova?
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History behind PhoneGap and Cordova
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Easy cross-platform development
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Cordova app architecture
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Summary
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2. Building the Data Store and Business Logic
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2. Building the Data Store and Business Logic
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Introducing Tasker
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Server architecture
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Designing your data models
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Designing the business logic
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Permissions model
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3. Securing PhoneGap Apps
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3. Securing PhoneGap Apps
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General security precautions
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Server-specific security precautions
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Cordova-specific security precautions
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4. Building the Middle-Tier
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4. Building the Middle-Tier
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Middle-tier architecture
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Designing a RESTful-like API
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Building our API using Node.js
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5. Communicating between Mobile and the Middle-Tier
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5. Communicating between Mobile and the Middle-Tier
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Getting started
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Promises
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Ensuring secure communication
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Communicating with the backend using XHR
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Authenticating the user with the backend
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6. Application Events and Storage
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6. Application Events and Storage
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Getting ready
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Determining network connectivity
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Getting the current network type
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Detecting changes in connectivity
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Handling connectivity issues
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Handling changes in the application state
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Responding to application-level events
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Storing local data using SQLite
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Storing data in the iOS Keychain
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7. Push Notifications
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7. Push Notifications
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Delving into Push Notification architecture
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Boxcar Universal Push Notifications Platform
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Setting up Google Cloud Messages with Boxcar
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Integrating Boxcar with PhoneGap/Cordova
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Receiving Pushes from Boxcar
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Sending a Push via Boxcar
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8. Building the Presentation Tier
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8. Building the Presentation Tier
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Mock-up design tools
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Libraries and frameworks
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Common patterns
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Presentation of the app
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Seeing it in action
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A. Useful Resources
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A. Useful Resources
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Chapter 1 – PhoneGap and Enterprise Mobility
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Chapter 2 – Building the Data Store and Business Logic
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Chapter 3 – Securing PhoneGap Apps
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Chapter 4 – Building the Middle-Tier
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Chapter 5 – Communicating between Mobile and the Middle-Tier
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Chapter 7 – Push Notifications
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Chapter 8 – Building the Presentation Tier
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Index
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Index

Chapter 4. Building the Middle-Tier

If you browse any Cordova/PhoneGap forum, you'll often come across posts asking how to connect to and query a backend database. In this chapter, we will look at the reasons why it is necessary to interact with your backend database using an intermediary service. If the business logic resides within the database, the middle-tier might be a very simple layer wrapping the data store, but it can also implement a significant portion of business logic as well. The middle-tier also usually handles session authentication logic.

Although many enterprise projects will already have a middle-tier in place, it's useful to understand how a middle-tier works, and how to implement one if you ever need to build a solution from the ground up.

In this chapter, we'll focus heavily on these topics:

  • Typical middle-tier architecture
  • Designing a RESTful-like API
  • Implementing a RESTful-like hypermedia API using Node.js
  • Connecting to the backend database
  • Executing...
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