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PhoneGap and AngularJS for Cross-platform Development

By : Yuxian E Liang
Book Image

PhoneGap and AngularJS for Cross-platform Development

By: Yuxian E Liang

Overview of this book

PhoneGap is a mobile development framework that allows developers to build cross-platform mobile applications. Building PhoneGap apps is traditionally done using HTML, CSS, jQuery Mobile, Eclipse Editor, and/or Xcode. The process can be cumbersome, from setting up your editor to optimizing your usage of jQuery, and so on. However, AngularJS, a new but highly popular JavaScript framework, eases these tasks with APIs to get access to mobile APIs such as notifications, geo-location, accelerometers, and more. Starting with the absolute basics of building an AngularJS application, this book will teach you how to quickly set up PhoneGap apps using the command-line interface. You will learn how to create simple to advanced to-do lists and add authentication capabilities using PhoneGap's plugins. You will enhance your skills by writing a PhoneGap app using your newly learned AngularJS skills. Furthermore, you will learn about adding animation and interactive designs to your mobile web apps using PhoneGap plugins. By the end of the book, you will know everything you need to launch your app on both Android and iOS devices.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
PhoneGap and AngularJS for Cross-platform Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Getting Ready for PhoneGap

As you might already know, PhoneGap (http://phonegap.com/) is a really cool open source project (now owned by Adobe), that allows you to create cross platform mobile apps using JavaScript/CSS/HTML.

This means that you can readily use your web development skills to developing mobile apps. Since this book assumes basic familiarity with PhoneGap, I will advance to how to install PhoneGap. You will primarily see examples related to Android and iOS since we are going to create mobiles apps that only support Android and iOS.

Note that we are focusing on using PhoneGap Version 3.3.0 and, as much as possible, we will be building the apps via the latest command-line interface provided by PhoneGap.

Just for your information, all source code found in this chapter—whether automatically generated by PhoneGap or coded by us—can be found in the source code folder, chapter2.