You're reading from PhoneGap Beginners Guide (third edition) Create, develop, debug, and deploy your very own mobile applications with PhoneGap

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784392284

Length 284 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

PhoneGap

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to PhoneGap FREE CHAPTER

2. Building Your First PhoneGap Project

3. Mobile Frameworks

4. Working with Plugins

5. Using Device Storage and the Files API

6. Using the Contacts and Camera APIs

7. Accessing the Device Sensors and Locations API

8. Advanced PhoneGap

9. Getting Ready for Release

10. A Sample PhoneGap Project

A. The JavaScript Quick Cheat Sheet

B. Publishing Your App

C. Related Plugin Resources

Summary

D. PhoneGap Tools

Index

Chapter 1. Introduction to PhoneGap

PhoneGap is a hybrid application framework that enables you to build native applications using HTML and JavaScript. Developers can write code once and deploy their application across multiple mobile operating systems. PhoneGap provides a JavaScript programming interface that allows you to access features related to the operating system with plain JavaScript. This chapter covers information about PhoneGap and setting up your development environment.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Understanding what PhoneGap is all about
Get an overview of the history of Apache Cordova/PhoneGap
The evolution of PhoneGap and Cordova
Learn the differences between the mobile web and mobile app
Learn how to configure your development environment and all the dependencies
Learn how to create a new project using JBoss, Xcode, and Visual Studio