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Phonegap Essentials

By : Ivan Turkovic
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Phonegap Essentials

By: Ivan Turkovic

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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
PhoneGap Essentials
PhoneGap Essentials
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Get up and Running with PhoneGap
Get up and Running with PhoneGap
A brief history
What is PhoneGap?
Setting up a local development environment
Summary
2
Mobile Platform Support
Mobile Platform Support
Supported platforms
PhoneGap Build
The PhoneGap Developer App
Summary
3
Command-line Interface
Command-line Interface
Introduction to a command-line interface
Creating a new project
Managing the project
Using PhoneGap Build
Summary
4
Plugin Support
Plugin Support
Introducing plugins
Plugman
npm
Plugins
Summary
5
First PhoneGap Application
First PhoneGap Application
Starting a new application
Project folder structure
Core PhoneGap events
Essential plugins
Summary
6
Accessing Native APIs
Accessing Native APIs
Native APIs
The Battery Status plugin
The Device Motion plugin
The Device Orientation plugin
The Geolocation plugin
The Vibration plugin
Summary
7
Accessing Media Content
Accessing Media Content
Introducing multimedia
File Transfer
Contacts
Camera
InAppBrowser
Summary
8
Application Development Workflow
Application Development Workflow
An introduction to a development workflow
Best practices
Use local assets for the UI
Testing
Debugging
User interface
Summary
Index
Index

Best practices

The running of hybrid mobile applications requires some sacrifices in terms of performance and functionality; so it is good to go over some useful tips for new PhoneGap developers.

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