Book Description
With your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS skills, you just need to add PhoneGap to start creating native mobile apps for cross-platform devices. The 40+ recipes in this book will show you how, speedily and practically.
Use the PhoneGap API to create native mobile applications that work on a wide range of mobile devices
Discover the native device features and functions you can access and include within your applications
Packed with clear and concise examples to show you how to easily build native mobile applications
In Detail
As more and more of our online life and daily activities evolve into the mobile landscape it has never been of more importance to start venturing into the world of mobile applications.
With PhoneGap, you can put your existing development skills and HTML, CSS, and JavaScript knowledge to great use by creating mobile apps for cross-platform devices.
"PhoneGap Mobile Application Development Cookbook" will show you how to create native mobile applications for multiple device platforms using the PhoneGap API. You will learn to build dynamic applications that interact with the native functionality on the device to create a rich, interactive experience for your users.
This is a cookbook with each section written as a recipe in an informal, friendly style. Each recipe contains the complete code needed to build your applications, and plenty of screenshots showing the completed projects running on devices are included to assist you.
"PhoneGap Mobile Application Development Cookbook" will introduce the PhoneGap API to you in clear, concise sections, breaking down each recipe to achieve realistic working projects that can be applied to your own mobile applications.
You will be shown how to use the mobile development framework to build applications that can be deployed and run on multiple mobile platforms including iOS, Android, and BlackBerry.
This book will explore the various methods and functions available using the API, and how to write code that interacts with the native functions, including geolocation sensors, contacts database, and native button events of the device to create powerful applications ready for the market place.
"PhoneGap Mobile Application Development Cookbook" will help you break into the world of mobile application development. Build mobile applications in code you’re comfortable with, create a richer user experience for your users and become part of the ever-growing mobile market place.
Table of Contents
- PhoneGap Mobile Application Development Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- PhoneGap Mobile Application Development Cookbook
- Credits
- Foreword
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Movement and Location: Using the Accelerometer and Geolocation Sensors
- Introduction
- Detecting device movement using the accelerometer
- Adjusting the accelerometer sensor update interval
- Updating a display object position through accelerometer events
- Obtaining device geolocation sensor information
- Adjusting the geolocation sensor update interval
- Retrieving map data through geolocation coordinates
- Creating a visual compass to show the devices direction
- 2. File System, Storage, and Local Databases
- 3. Working with Audio, Images, and Video
- Introduction
- Capturing audio using the devices audio recording application
- Recording audio within your application
- Playing audio files from the local filesystem or over HTTP
- Capturing video using the devices video recording application
- Loading a photograph from the devices camera roll/library
- Applying an effect to an image using canvas
- 4. Working with Your Contacts
- 5. Hook into Native Events
- 6. Working with XUI
- 7. User Interface Development with jQuery Mobile
- 8. Extending PhoneGap with Plugins
- 9. Development Tools and Testing
- Introduction
- Downloading Cordova
- Using the command line to create a new iOS Cordova project
- Using Xcode templates for iOS to develop Cordova applications
- Using Eclipse to develop Android Cordova applications
- Controlling your Android Virtual Device
- Using Adobe Dreamweaver to develop Cordova applications
- Using the PhoneGap Build service
- Index