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PhoneGap Beginners Guide (third edition)

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784392284
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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 D. PhoneGap Tools Index

Cordova events

To maximize the benefits of using Cordova, you should know about all the events available. They are called lifecycle events because they are a part of your application throughout its lifecycle. These events are available by default for all applications and it's up to the developer to use them to implement better design. Although there are several events, we will discuss the most important and commonly used events.

The deviceready event

The deviceready event is an important event of Cordova and you can't live without it in the Cordova world. This event is triggered when Cordova has fully loaded and the application is ready to be used. We should know when the application is ready to be used and so this event comes to our rescue. This event should be the gateway to all the application's functionality:

document.addEventListener("deviceready", function() {
    // Application starts here
});

To make the code easy to understand, we can define the function...

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