PhoneGap Beginner's Guide
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- Learn how to use the PhoneGap mobile application framework
- Develop cross-platform code for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and more
- Write robust and extensible JavaScript code
- Master new HTML5 and CSS3 APIs
- Full of practical tutorials to get you writing code right away
Book Details
Language : EnglishPaperback : 328 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : September 2011
ISBN : 1849515360
ISBN 13 : 978-1-84951-536-8
Author(s) : Andrew Lunny
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Mobile, Beginner's Guides, Games
Table of Contents
PrefaceChapter 1: Installing PhoneGap
Chapter 2: Building and Debugging on Multiple Platforms
Chapter 3: Mobile Web to Mobile Applications
Chapter 4: Managing a Cross-Platform Codebase
Chapter 5: HTML5 APIs and Mobile JavaScript
Chapter 6: CSS3: Transitions, Transforms, and Animation
Chapter 7: Accessing Device Sensors with PhoneGap
Chapter 8: Accessing Camera Data and Files
Chapter 9: Reading and Writing to Contacts
Chapter 10: PhoneGap Plugins
Chapter 11: Working Offline: Sync and Caching
Appendix A: Deploying to iOS
Appendix B: Pop Quiz Answers
Index
- Chapter 1: Installing PhoneGap
- Operating systems
- Dependencies
- Getting started with iOS
- Time for action – Getting an app running on the simulator
- Installing PhoneGap-iPhone
- Time for action – Hello World with PhoneGap-iPhone
- Getting started with Android
- A note on development environments
- Time for action – Getting the SDK running
- PhoneGap Android
- Time for action – Hello World on PhoneGap Android
- What's in a PhoneGap Android application, anyway?
- Getting started with BlackBerry web works
- Time for action – Your first PhoneGap BlackBerry app
- Code signing for BlackBerry
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Building and Debugging on Multiple Platforms
- Designing with desktop browsers
- WebKit
- Developing our first application: You Are The Best
- Time for action – Initial design and functionality
- Our workflow
- Our styles
- Unobtrusiveness
- Width and height
- -webkit-border-radius
- Our scripts
- Unobtrusiveness
- addEventListener
- DOMContentLoaded
- Using the web inspector
- Accessing web inspector
- Time for action – Simple logging and error checking
- Moving to native platforms
- Time for action – You Are The Best for iPhone
- <meta name="viewport">
- phonegap.js
- deviceready
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Mobile Web to Mobile Applications
- Implementing web server roles
- Time for action – Implementing LocalStorage
- Other storage options
- Web SQL
- Indexed DB
- View templating
- Time for action – Food detail view
- Accessing remote resources
- Cross-origin policy
- Time for action – Talking about food
- Accessing remote resources
- Parsing remote data
- Event delegation
- Sleight: The PhoneGap development server
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Managing a Cross-Platform Codebase
- Inherent differences between platforms
- Using a single codebase
- Time for action - Detection and fallbacks
- User agent sniffing
- Feature detection
- Media queries
- Preprocessing code
- Summary
- Chapter 5: HTML5 APIs and Mobile JavaScript
- Mobile JavaScript
- XUI
- Time for action – Downloading, building, and using XUI
- Why not jQuery?
- HTML5
- Media elements
- Time for action – My dinner with PhoneGap
- Media events and attributes
- The audio element
- The canvas element
- Time for action: Dinner dashboard
- The canvas API
- A note on performance
- What else is in HTML5?
- Summary
- Chapter 6: CSS3: Transitions, Transforms, and Animation
- Translate with transitions
- Time for action – The modal tweet view
- Timing functions
- Other transformations
- Scrolling
- Viewports: Visual and otherwise
- iScroll
- Time for action – Scrolling list of food
- Other approaches
- Explicit animations
- Time for action – Animating our headline
- Animations: CSS3 or HTML5?
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Accessing Device Sensors with PhoneGap
- What are device sensors?
- Time for action – A postcard writer
- PhoneGap versus HTML5
- Other geolocation data
- Accelerometer data
- Time for action – Detecting shakes
- Device orientation and device motion events
- Orientation media queries
- Time for action – Landscape postcards
- Other media queries
- Magnetometer: The missing API
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Accessing Camera Data and Files
- Time for action – Hello World with the Camera API
- Browsers are not emulators or devices
- Image sources
- Other options
- What about when we finally get an image?
- Time for action – Getting a file path to display
- Where is this image, anyway?
- Raw image data
- Time for action – Saving pictures
- Ensure quality is set
- Editing or accessing live data
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Reading and Writing to Contacts
- Time for action – navigator.service.contacts.find
- ContactFields
- Writing contact data
- Time for action – Making friends
- What if I encounter a new problem?
- ContactFields, ContactName, and similar objects
- Be responsible
- Summary
- Chapter 10: PhoneGap Plugins
- Getting PhoneGap plugins
- Time for action – Integrating ChildBrowser
- Differences between platforms
- Plugin discovery
- Writing a PhoneGap plugin
- Time for action – Battery view
- Noteworthy information about the PhoneGap plugin with iOS
- Porting your plugin
- Time for action – Android and BlackBerry
- Do you need cross-platform plugins?
- No limits
- Summary
- Chapter 11: Working Offline: Sync and Caching
- Ruby and Sinatra
- Time for action – A news site, with an API
- Alternatives to Sinatra
- Caching new stories
- Time for action – Caching stories in a local database
- Managing application initialization
- Summary
- Appendix A: Deploying to iOS
- Time for action–deploying to a device
- Appendix B: Pop Quiz Answers
- Chapter 1
- PhoneGap iPhone Basics Answers
- Chapter 2
- Initial Design Answers
- Chapter 3
- Templating with Mustache Answers
- Chapter 4
- Feature Detection vs UA Sniffing Answers
- Chapter 5
- XUI Answers
- Media Elements Pop Quiz Answers
- Chapter 6
- Scrolling Answers
- Chapter 7
- Geolocation Answers
- Orientation and Media Queries Answers
- Chapter 8
- navigator.camera.getPicture Answers
- Destination Types Answers
- Chapter 9
- Contacts Answers
- Chapter 10
- Using PhoneGap Plugins Answers
- Writing PhoneGap Plugins Answers
- Chapter 11
- A Simple Web Service Answers
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- Rich interactions using HTML5 and CSS3 APIs
- Mobile JavaScript expertise: write code that travels anywhere
- Working offline: use web development skills with native code to create installable web-apps that sync with remote servers
- Enhancing application experiences with real-time sensor data
- Integrating with cameras and images to enrich users' experiences
- Access device contacts and data for fully native interactions
- Detecting devices precisely and skillfully to progressively enhance your user interface within a single application
- Pluging in to PhoneGap: adding functionality to the framework with custom native code
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With the increasingly fragmented mobile application landscape, it's important to find strategies that allow for rapid development on many different platforms. Using PhoneGap, you will be able to use a single codebase that targets iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and more, just using web development skills.
PhoneGap Beginner's Guide will show you how to use the PhoneGap mobile development framework to target multiple mobile platforms: iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and more with a single application. With PhoneGap, you can use existing web development skills, instead of learning a new environment for every platform on the market.
PhoneGap Beginner's Guide will escalate you from being a novice at mobile development to writing complex applications that target multiple platforms, through learning the APIs and development process of the PhoneGap framework.
You will learn how to manage a code base that targets multiple mobile platforms; how to use new HTML5 and CSS3 APIs to create rich, responsive user interfaces; and how to use the PhoneGap APIs to integrate with native functionality such as device sensors, contacts, and cameras.
After reading PhoneGap Beginner's Guide, you will have the skills and the confidence to target all of the major mobile platforms with rich and responsive applications.
This is a beginner's introduction to practical use of the PhoneGap mobile application framework.
This is a step-by-step guide written in an informal, friendly style, for beginners to learn building cross-platform mobile applications with PhoneGap. You will find plenty of fully explained code and ample screenshots in the book to ease and speed up your understanding.
This book is for developers, ideally with web development experience, who are interested in developing for the emerging mobile market, but do not want to learn a new SDK for every phone on the shelf. Readers 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.
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