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Phonegap for Enterprise

By : Kerri Shotts

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Phonegap for Enterprise

4.5 (6)

By: Kerri Shotts

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.

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. PhoneGap and Enterprise Mobility

1. PhoneGap and Enterprise Mobility

Why PhoneGap/Cordova?

History behind PhoneGap and Cordova

Easy cross-platform development

Cordova app architecture

Summary

2. Building the Data Store and Business Logic

2. Building the Data Store and Business Logic

Introducing Tasker

Server architecture

Designing your data models

Designing the business logic

Permissions model

Summary

3. Securing PhoneGap Apps

3. Securing PhoneGap Apps

General security precautions

Server-specific security precautions

Cordova-specific security precautions

Summary

4. Building the Middle-Tier

4. Building the Middle-Tier

Middle-tier architecture

Designing a RESTful-like API

Building our API using Node.js

Summary

5. Communicating between Mobile and the Middle-Tier

5. Communicating between Mobile and the Middle-Tier

Getting started

Promises

Ensuring secure communication

Communicating with the backend using XHR

Authenticating the user with the backend

Summary

6. Application Events and Storage

6. Application Events and Storage

Getting ready

Determining network connectivity

Getting the current network type

Detecting changes in connectivity

Handling connectivity issues

Handling changes in the application state

Responding to application-level events

Storing local data using SQLite

Storing data in the iOS Keychain

Summary

7. Push Notifications

7. Push Notifications

Delving into Push Notification architecture

Boxcar Universal Push Notifications Platform

Setting up Google Cloud Messages with Boxcar

Integrating Boxcar with PhoneGap/Cordova

Receiving Pushes from Boxcar

Sending a Push via Boxcar

Summary

8. Building the Presentation Tier

8. Building the Presentation Tier

Mock-up design tools

Libraries and frameworks

Common patterns

Presentation of the app

Seeing it in action

Summary

A. Useful Resources

A. Useful Resources

Chapter 1 – PhoneGap and Enterprise Mobility

Chapter 2 – Building the Data Store and Business Logic

Chapter 3 – Securing PhoneGap Apps

Chapter 4 – Building the Middle-Tier

Chapter 5 – Communicating between Mobile and the Middle-Tier

Chapter 7 – Push Notifications

Chapter 8 – Building the Presentation Tier

Index

Index

Building our API using Node.js

In this section, we'll cover connecting our web service to our Oracle database, handling user authentication and session management using Passport, and defining handlers for state transitions.

You'll definitely want to take a look at the /tasker-srv directory in the code package for this book, which contains the full web server for Tasker. In the following sections, we've only highlighted some snippets of the code.

Connecting to the backend database

Node.js's community has provided a large number of database drivers, so chances are good that whatever your backend, Node.js has a driver available for it. In our example app, we're using an Oracle database as the backend, which means we'll be using the oracle driver (https://www.npmjs.org/package/oracle).

Connecting to the database is actually pretty easy, the following code shows how:

var oracle = require("oracle");
oracle.connect ( { hostname: "localhost", port: 1521...

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