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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

AngularJS on PhoneGap


Before we begin this section, let's take a look at how much magic the PhoneGap command-line interface has. Navigate to the directory where you saved your code; you should see something like the following screenshot:

Directory layout of the code

The previous screenshot is how my code directory looks after issuing the PhoneGap commands of the previous section. Notice that I've created the folder phonegap/, and the PhoneGap command line helped us create the todo/ project folder with other folders such as hooks/, merges/, platforms/, plugins/, and so on. Our platform-specific commands created the folders android/ and ios/ and they are found under merges/ and platforms/ respectively.

Note

The automatically created folders are meant to hold important files that belong to different platforms. For example, you will find Android-related files in android, while you will find iOS related files in ios/. In the plugins/ folder, you will find the various plugins that you have installed...