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PhoneGap Essentials: Building Cross-Platform Mobile Apps

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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.   Experienced mobile developer John M. Wargo thoroughly introduces the PhoneGap platform, explaining what it is, what it does, and how it works. He then guides you through configuring PhoneGap environments—creating complete mobile apps—and building them for the Google Android™, Samsung bada, BlackBerry® devices, Apple® iOS, Symbian™ OS, and Windows® Phone. Through realistic examples, you’ll master key PhoneGap APIs for everything from GPS to the file system, contacts to camera, device to events, and more. Wargo also demonstrates how to take full advantage of PhoneGap Build, PhoneGap’s cloud-based packaging utility.   Coverage includes The anatomy of a PhoneGap application (what makes an application a PhoneGap application) Understanding the impact of cross-platform development issues Exploring the entire PhoneGap development process, including testing and debugging Expanding PhoneGap’s capabilities with third-party development tools and plug-ins Building cross-platform apps that use the device camera, compass, accelerometer, and other hardware Reading from and writing to the contacts database and the device file system Installing tools needed to develop PhoneGap apps for Android, bada, BlackBerry, iOS, Symbian, and Windows Phone Reacting to events and notifying users Using the Media API to record and play media files Building for multiple platforms simultaneously using PhoneGap Build  About the Website Downloadable code projects, additional information, and errata are available at phonegapessentials.com.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Bryce A. Curtis xiii Foreword by Jim Huempfner xv Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxiii About the Author xxiv   Part I: PhoneGap 1   Chapter 1: Introduction to PhoneGap 3 A Little PhoneGap History 4 Why Use PhoneGap? 5 How PhoneGap Works 6 Designing for the Container 11 Writing PhoneGap Applications 13 Building PhoneGap Applications 13 PhoneGap Limitations 17 PhoneGap Plug-Ins 18 Getting Support for PhoneGap 19 PhoneGap Resources 19 Hybrid Application Frameworks 19   Chapter 2: PhoneGap Development, Testing, and Debugging 23 Hello, World! 23 PhoneGap Initialization 25 Leveraging PhoneGap APIs 28 Enhancing the User Interface of a PhoneGap Application 30 Testing and Debugging PhoneGap Applications 35 Dealing with Cross-Platform Development Issues 49   Part II: PhoneGap Developer Tools 55   Chapter 3: Configuring an Android Development Environment for PhoneGap 57 Installing the Android SDK 58 Eclipse Development Environment Configuration 64 Creating an Android PhoneGap Project 66 Testing Android PhoneGap Applications 77   Chapter 4: Configuring a bada Development Environment for PhoneGap 79 Downloading and Installing the Correct PhoneGap bada Files 80 Creating a bada PhoneGap Project 82 Creating a bada Application Profile 86 Testing bada PhoneGap Applications 95   Chapter 5: Configuring a BlackBerry Development Environment for PhoneGap 97 Installing the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK 98 Creating a BlackBerry PhoneGap Project 99 Building BlackBerry PhoneGap Applications 103 Testing BlackBerry PhoneGap Applications 109   Chapter 6: Configuring an iOS Development Environment for PhoneGap 113 Registering as an Apple Developer 113 Installing Xcode 114 Creating an iOS PhoneGap Project 116 Testing iOS PhoneGap Applications 122   Chapter 7: Configuring a Symbian Development Environment for PhoneGap 125 Installing the Nokia Web Tools 125 Installing the Make Utility 126 Creating a Symbian PhoneGap Project 128 Configuring Application Settings 129 Modifying HelloWorld3 for Symbian 130 Packaging Symbian PhoneGap Projects 131 Testing Symbian PhoneGap Applications 132   Chapter 8: Configuring a Windows Phone Development Environment for PhoneGap 135 Installing the Windows Phone Development Tools 135 Creating a Windows Phone PhoneGap Project 136 Testing Windows Phone PhoneGap Applications 139   Chapter 9: Using PhoneGap Build 141 The Fit 142 Getting Started 142 Configuration 143 Creating an Application for PhoneGap Build 145 Creating a PhoneGap Build Project 146 Dealing with Build Issues 150 Testing Applications 152 Debug Mode 153   Part III: PhoneGap APIs 155   Chapter 10: Accelerometer 157 Querying Device Orientation 158 Watching a Device’s Orientation 162   Chapter 11: Camera 165 Accessing a Picture 165 Configuring Camera Options 176 Dealing with Camera Problems 182   Chapter 12: Capture 185 Using the Capture API 186 Configuring Capture Options 189 Capture at Work 191   Chapter 13: Compass 205 Getting Device Heading 205 Watching Device Heading 209   Chapter 14: Connection 217   Chapter 15: Contacts 223 Creating a Contact 224 Searching for Contacts 236 Cloning Contacts 242 Removing Contacts 242   Chapter 16: Device 243   Chapter 17: Events 249 Creating an Event Listener 249 deviceready Event 250 Application Status Events 251 Network Status Events 254 Button Events 256   Chapter 18: File 263 Available Storage Types 263 Accessing the Device’s File System 264 Reading Directory Entries 267 Accessing FileEntry and DirectoryEntry Properties 269 Writing Files 272 Reading Files 274 Deleting Files or Directories 275 Copying Files or Directories 276 Moving Files or Directories 276 Uploading Files to a Server 277   Chapter 19: Geolocation 279 Getting a Device’s Current Location 280 Watching a Device’s Location 284   Chapter 20: Media 293 The Media Object 293 Playing Audio Files 298 Recording Audio Files 299 Seeing Media in Action 300   Chapter 21: Notification 307 Visual Alerts (Alert and Confirm) 307 Beep 310 Vibrate 310 Notification in Action 310   Chapter 22: Storage 315 Local Storage 316 SQL Database 317   Appendix A: Installing the PhoneGap Files 327 Preparing for Samsung bada Development 329 Preparing for iOS Development 329 Preparing for Windows Phone Development 330   Appendix B: Installing the Oracle Java Developer Kit 333 Downloading the JDK 333 Installing the JDK 335 Configuring the Windows Path 335 Confirming Installation Success 336   Appendix C: Installing Apache Ant 337 Macintosh Installation 337 Windows Installation 338   Index 341

About the Author :
John M. Wargo has more than twenty years of experience designing and developing enterprise applications with a focus on collaboration and process automation. John has spent the last five years focusing on mobile development having worked for Research In Motion and authored BlackBerry Development Fundamentals (Addison-Wesley, 2010; www.bbdevfundamentals.com) and a series of articles on mobile development for The View (www.eview.com). He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, delivering sessions on mobile development and analysis of mobile industry trends. In his current role, he is a practice manager in AT&T’s Advanced Mobile Applications Practice, specializing in mobile application platforms and frameworks, and helping customers realize their mobile initiatives.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780132928342
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Addison Wesley
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Building Cross-Platform Mobile Apps
  • ISBN-10: 0132928345
  • Publisher Date: 21 Jun 2012
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Weight: 1 gr


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