PhoneGap 3 Beginner's Guide: A Guide to Building Cross-platform Apps Using the W3c Standards-based Cordova/Phonegap Framework - Softcover

Natili, Giorgio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782160981 ISBN 13: 9781782160984

Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

PhoneGap opens up mobile application development to more people by using HTML and JavaScript. This book gives you the know-how on all the essentials in friendly, example-driven tutorials that will empower you to do more.

Overview

• Understand the fundamentals of cross-platform mobile application development from build to distribution
• Learn to implement the most common features of modern mobile applications
• Take advantage of native mobile device capabilities—including the camera, geolocation, and local storage—using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

In Detail

You don’t have to know complex languages like Objective C to compete in the ever-growing mobile market place. The PhoneGap framework lets you use your web development skills to build HTML and JavaScript-based mobile applications with native wrappers that run on all the major mobile platforms, including Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 8.

"PhoneGap Beginner’s Guide" will help you break into the world of mobile application development. You will learn how to set up and configure your mobile development environment, implement the most common features of modern mobile apps, and build rich, native-style applications. The examples in this book deal with real use case scenarios, which will help you develop your own apps, and then publish them on the most popular app stores.

Dive deep into PhoneGap and refine your skills by learning how to build the main features of a real world app.

"PhoneGap Beginner’s Guide" will guide you through the building blocks of a mobile application that lets users plan a trip and share their trip information. With the help of this app, you will learn how to work with key PhoneGap tools and APIs, extend the framework’s functionality with plug-ins, and integrate device features such as the camera, contacts, storage, and more. By the time you’re finished, you will have a solid understanding of the common challenges mobile app developers face, and you will know how to solve them.

What you will learn from this book

• Set up and configure your development environment
• Manage cross-platform code bases
• Build well-performing modular apps
• Interact with the device sensors, file system, and camera
• Use key PhoneGap APIs
• Integrate native code in your mobile app
• Write a PhoneGap plugin
• Localize a mobile app

Approach

Written in a friendly, example-driven Beginner’s Guide format, there are plenty of step-by-step instructions to help you get started with PhoneGap.

Who this book is written for

If you are a web developer or mobile application developer interested in an examples-based approach to learning mobile application development basics with PhoneGap, then this book is for you.

About this title

About the Author:

Giorgio Natili

Giorgio Natili is an author, educator, community leader, W3C member, and founder of www.gnstudio.com—a boutique Rome-based development and design studio, specializing in engaging and accessible web and mobile experiences. A strong proponent of agile development practices, his areas of expertise include standards-based application development, client-side scripting, gaming, and video streaming. His previous speaking engagements include Adobe Max, 360|Flex, FITC, XP 2010 and 2012, 360|Stack 2013, and several community-driven conferences. Also, he is the founder of the community www.codeinvaders.net and the main organizer of the Mobile Tea, Italy conference.

About this edition

• Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1782160981
• ISBN 13: 9781782160984
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 286