Chapter 1, Introduction to AngularJS, will teach you the absolute basics of building an AngularJS app.

Chapter 2, Getting Ready for PhoneGap, will cover the PhoneGap command-line interface. By end of this chapter, you will have learned that the command-line interface is one of the best things about PhoneGap 3.x. The example you coded in Chapter 1, Introduction to AngularJS, will be put to use in this chapter.

Chapter 3, From a Simple To-do List to an Advanced To-do List, will cover some of the slightly more advanced concepts of AngularJS, such as code organization, making RESTful calls, and more. This advanced app will then be converted to a PhoneGap app.

Chapter 4, Adding Authentication Capabilities Using PhoneGap Plugins, will add Facebook authentication capabilities via PhoneGap plugins. Once again, you will see how we can add the Facebook plugin using the command-line interface.

Chapter 5, Sprucing Up the App Using Animations and Mobile Design, will cover a slightly more advanced AngularJS topic: animations.

Chapter 6, Getting Ready to Launch, will teach you how to launch the app, both in Android and iOS devices.

Appendix, References, has a list of references that you should find useful.

This book assumes that you have a basic code editor. You will need a Mac if you intend to develop iOS versions of the PhoneGap app. You will most definitely require an Internet connection and the Google Chrome browser.

This book is intended for people who are not familiar with AngularJS but have beginner experience in PhoneGap, and who might want to improve their PhoneGap skills by learning the command-line interface for PhoneGap 3.x, and develop PhoneGap apps using AngularJS.

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Feel free to copy the code and save it as concepts.html."

A block of code is set as follows:

project/
   css/
   js/
      controllers/
            todo.js
      services/
            todo.js
      app.js
  partials/
     detail.html
     list.html
  index.html

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

<li ng-repeat="todo in todos">
  <input type="checkbox" ng-model="todo.done">
  <span class="done-{{todo.done}}">{{todo.text}}</span>
  <button ng-click="showDetail(todo.text)">Detail</button>
</li>

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

cordova emulate android

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Click on Edit/Details for the Android item and start editing."

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