You're reading from PhoneGap 4 Mobile Application Development Cookbook Build real-world hybrid mobile applications using the robust PhoneGap development platform

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783287949

Length 356 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

PhoneGap

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Welcome to PhoneGap 3 FREE CHAPTER

2. Movement and Location – Using the Accelerometer and Geolocation Sensors

3. Filesystems, Storage, and Local Databases

4. Working with Audio, Images, and Video

5. Working with Your Contacts List

6. Hooking into Native Events

7. Working with XUI

8. Working with the Ionic Framework

9. Ionic Framework Development

10. User Interface Development

11. Extending PhoneGap with Plugins

12. Development Tools and Testing

Index

Introduction

This chapter explains the basic information about PhoneGap and how to get started with using PhoneGap. PhoneGap 3 is a big release in PhoneGap's history so far. In the older version, we had to download PhoneGap manually every time there was a new release. The pain is now over. With PhoneGap command-line interface (CLI), which was released along with PhoneGap 3, we are able to install PhoneGap directly from the command line.

PhoneGap 3 has improved the workflow for building cross-platform hybrid mobile applications. Thanks to NodeJS, creating a new project, adding a device platform, building an application, and running the application can now be performed from the command line. We don't need to open our project using each IDE, which can save us a lot of time.

Being a hybrid application means PhoneGap can give access to native functionality using web technology. We can add plugins to let our application get native capabilities. Adding plugins is easy with PhoneGap 3. Unlike older versions of PhoneGap, where we added plugins manually to each project, we can now use the CLI to add plugins to our project.