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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

Testing our code on iOS


To test our code on iOS, we simply navigate to our PhoneGap project (phonegap/todo) and issue the following command:

cordova emulate ios

Remember to turn on your server and MongoDB as well. You should see the following screen on your Android emulator:

Your to-do list app should look and work as expected

This is simply some of the data that we created beforehand. Let's go ahead and create a new to-do item:

Your to-do list app should look and work as expected

Now go ahead and save it. You will see the following screen:

Your to-do list app should look and work as expected; creating a to-do item works

I'm just going to go ahead and edit the latest to-do item:

Editing a to-do item should work as expected

Now click on Save. You should see the latest item saved as shown in the following screenshot:

After editing and saving the to-do item, the app works as expected