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WordPress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap

By : Eugene Liang
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WordPress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap

By: Eugene Liang

Overview of this book

With the explosive popularity of mobile apps and its much anticipated continued growth for the foreseeable future, developers will want to get their hands dirty and build some cool mobile apps. But we know that building mobile apps is not easy: we need to handle cross-platform issues, mobile devices of different screen sizes, not to mention traditional issues such as providing a content management system of the content served in the application. Enter "WordPress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap". We leverage on some of the most popular open source projects: Wordpress, jQuery, jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap and discover how they can be pieced together to build a fully functional cross platform mobile application. "WordPress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap" teaches you how to build mobile application with minimal effort and coding by leveraging on some of the most popular open source projects such as Wordpress, jQuery, jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap. This book looks at some of the most popular open source projects: Wordpress, jQuery, jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap and breaks down the nitty gritty details on how to leverage on these projects to build a fully functional cross-platform mobile application with minimal coding and effort. You will start off by quickly going through the capabilities of Wordpress. Then you will prepare some groundwork on how to make use of plugins and the GeoPlaces theme to provide geographic and API capabilities to WordPress. Next you will learn how to create an external HTML/CSS/JavaScript that consumes and posts data to your Wordpress blog. More importantly, you will see how to convert this external app into a PhoneGap in as little as five minutes. Finally, you will learn how to apply all these techniques and skills to a Wordpress app based on the Twenty-Ten theme and create a cross-platform mobile app using PhoneGap. By the end of "Wordpress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap" you will learn how to piece Wordpress, jQuery, jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap together into a fully functional mobile app.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

About the Reviewers

Ken Cenerelli is a Senior Software Developer who specializes in designing and creating effective solutions for both the Web and desktop environments. With over 11 years of experience in software design, development, and support, he has engineered strong, data-driven web applications using the Microsoft .NET framework for large and small companies throughout North America. Ken also works with mobile technologies and has built apps for both Windows Phone 7 and the Android OS. In the years prior to his career in software development, he was employed with the newspaper industry, holding jobs as a reporter and a newspaper librarian.

He lives in Ontario, Canada with his wife Renée. Visit his developer's blog at kencenerelli.wordpress.com to see what he is currently exploring, and to learn more about him, you can also follow him on Twitter at @KenCenerelli.

Adam D. Scott is a designer, frontend developer, husband, and father living in Connecticut. He has been a dedicated educator for six years, focusing on web technologies with project-based outcomes. He writes about the intersection of design, technology, and learning at adamdscott.com.

He is the author of the book, WordPress for Education, Packt Publishing.

Kerri Shotts is an IT Consultant specializing in mobile application development and website design. She can be found most days working from her home near Saint Louis, Missouri. She loves to read and write books and music, enjoys working with her aquariums, and is in love with all things Apple. She is the author of PhoneGap Hotshot, Packt Publishing.