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PhoneGap By Example

You're reading from   PhoneGap By Example Use PhoneGap to apply web development skills and learn variety of cross-platform mobile applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785285318
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Installing and Configuring PhoneGap FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up a Project Structure with Sencha Touch 3. Easy Work with Device – Your First PhoneGap Application "Travelly" 4. Integrating the Travelly Application with Custom Service 5. Crazy Bubbles - Your First HTML5 Mobile Game 6. Share Your Crazy Bubbles Game Result on Social Networks 7. Building a Real-time Communication Application – Pumpidu 8. Building "Imaginary" – An Application with Instagram-like Image Filters 9. Testing the PhoneGap Application 10. Releasing and Maintaining the Application Index

Chapter 2. Setting Up a Project Structure with Sencha Touch

The biggest misunderstanding with PhoneGap is that it does everything for you.

However, that's not the case. It is just the base for your application. It helps you package your app and access device features, such as the camera. There is nothing in PhoneGap that helps you to organize your app in terms of, for example, MVC. It's not an application framework. You need more. You need help from the PhoneGap ecosystem. By ecosystem, I mean everything that helps us build mobile-ready websites.

You need to spend a lot of time building an app that feels and looks native. It's the details that eat up your budget. Again, it's not PhoneGap's fault. Surely, JavaScript will perform faster on more modern devices soon. Surely, PhoneGap will remain a great service. However, we now need other great tools that can be used with PhoneGap to make HTML5/JS on mobile devices a success.

In this chapter, we will build a...

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