PhoneGap Beginner s Guide

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....

Now web developers can create cross-platform mobile apps in a language they already know
Are you a web developer eager to move into the mobile space, but don't have the time to learn a new language? Then PhoneGap is what you've been waiting for. PhoneGap is a free and open source framework that allows you to create cross-platform applications using HTML, CSS, and javascript. Beginning PhoneGap shows you how to make it happen. After a brief review on installing and configuring PhoneGap, you quickly dive into using PhoneGap to build iOS, Android, and Blackberry applications. Each chapter provides an in-depth view of different components, and lets you master each through exercises before moving on to the next piece. By the end of the book, you'll be ready to create your own mobile applications.

PhoneGap is Adobe’s distribution of the free and open source framework (originally developed by Nitobi) that is now also available from the Apache Foundation as Apache Cordova™. Using PhoneGap, developers can build native mobile apps using standard HTML5, javascript, and CSS, and then deploy those apps to every leading mobile platform with little or no recoding. Up to now, though, PhoneGap was lacking complete, practical documentation. PhoneGap Essentials fills that void: It’s the first concise, yet complete, tutorial for succeeding with PhoneGap in real-world development.

In this short ebook you will see how you can take your knowledge of HTML5 for mobile devices and convert your optimized Web sites into native applications that run on Android, iPhones, BlackBerry’s and more. PhoneGap integrates tightly into the development environment you are working in. The benefit this bring is that you can extend the core codebase in your apps with plugins and extensions. This gives you the opportunity to leverage features such as such as maps, advertising and more. The popularity of PhoneGap has reached the ears of many companies. In particular, Adobe is now including PhoneGap support starting with Dreamweaver CS 5.5. If you do not have Dreamweaver you can now even use a Web Service called PhoneGap Builder that will convert your HTML files into native apps. There simply is no excuse when it comes to creating apps. If you know HTML, then you can build a native application.

Gain hands-on experience with the amazing PhoneGap library, using the practical recipes in this handy guide. With these solutions, you can enable your mobile web apps to interact with device-specific features such as the accelerometer, GPS, camera, and address book. Learn how to use your knowledge of HTML, CSS, and javascript to build full mobile apps for iOS, Android, and several other platforms without rewriting apps in the native platform language. Each recipe includes sample code you can use in your project right away, as well as a discussion of why the solution works.

So you have a great idea for a new app for a tablet or smartphone, but you don’t know how to get started. One option is PhoneGap, a mobile development framework that allows you to turn your HTML, CSS and javascript assets into apps for multiple platforms. This may not be the optimal solution for every app, but, nonetheless, PhoneGap is an exciting platform to help get your foot through the door.

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So you have a great idea for a new app for a tablet or smartphone, but you don’t know how to get started. One option is PhoneGap, a mobile development framework that allows you to turn your HTML, CSS and javascript assets into apps for multiple platforms. This may not be the optimal solution for every app, but, nonetheless, PhoneGap is an exciting platform to help get your foot through the door.

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