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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

Summary


Let's quickly discuss what we have done in this chapter. We have prepared ourselves for PhoneGap development by installing SDKs for both Android and iOS. Next, we touched on how we can make use of PhoneGap command-line interface to set up our app, install, and prepare for different platforms and run our apps on iOS and Android emulators. We've also learned the commands to run our apps on real devices.

However, we are still far away from a decent mobile app. What we have now is just a basic version of the todo app on PhoneGap; we need to improve on it. Specifically, we need to make it look more like a mobile app. For instance, can we design the look and feel of the to-do list so that it when we tap on it, we are shown the individual todo item on a single page, instead of just appending it to the bottom of the page? We'll do this and more in the next chapter.