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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 3. From a Simple To-do List to an Advanced To-do List

Now that we have our basics in place, let's move on to something more advanced. In Chapter 1, Introduction to AngularJS, and Chapter 2, Getting Ready for PhoneGap, we built a simple to-do list, which works well, but the code organization is amateurish at best. The code arrangement in the previous chapters prevents us from writing large apps should we want to. Hence, in this chapter, we will start off by reorganizing the code first, before wiring up with a backend server.

We will be building on the topics covered in Chapter 1, Introduction to AngularJS, and Chapter 2, Getting Ready for PhoneGap. Specifically, we are going to cover three main areas:

  • Reorganizing the code

  • Writing our server using the Tornado web server

  • Wiring our app with the backend server