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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

Adding Facebook Connect to the to-do list app


Adding Facebook Connect to our web-based version of the app is straightforward. You will need to sign up for a new app (or use the current one) from https://developers.facebook.com/ and take note of the app ID and app's secret key. Then, as usual, you will need to initiate your app using some Facebook-specific JavaScript and library "namely" Facebook's JavaScript SDK.

In case you are wondering, the Facebook Connect plugin is used to perform Facebook login in PhoneGap apps.

Initializing and preparing for Facebook Connect

Let's quickly dive into the source code for index.html:

<!doctype html>
<html ng-app="todoApp">
  <head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.3/css/bootstrap.min.css">

    <style>
    body {
      padding: 40px 20px 0 20px;
    }
    </style>

  </head>
  <body>
  <div id="fb-root"></div>
  <script src="http://connect.facebook...