PhoneGap Mobile Application Development Cookbook

This cookbook consists of recipes with plenty of example code and is full of screenshots to make the learning curve easier and quicker. This book is for creative professionals, ideally with web development experience, who are interested in building applications for the emerging mobile market but do not want to learn a new SDK for every phone on the shelf. You should be comfortable with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and interested in learning the new advances in those technologies that allow for rich, native-style experiences. This book supports a beginner to advanced level of PhoneGap.

Matt Gifford

Matt Gifford is an RIA developer from Cambridge, England, who specializes in ColdFusion, web application, and mobile development. With over ten years industry experience across various sectors, Matt is owner of Monkeh Works Ltd. (www.monkehworks.com).

A regular presenter at national and international conferences, he also contributes articles and tutorials in leading international industry magazines, as well as publishing on his blog (www.mattgifford.co.uk).

As an Adobe Community Professional for ColdFusion, Matt is an advocate of community resources and industry-wide knowledge sharing, with a focus on encouraging the next generation of industry professionals.

Matt is the author of Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion and numerous open source applications, including the popular monkehTweets twitter API wrapper.