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HTML5 Game Development by Example(Second Edition)

You're reading from   HTML5 Game Development by Example(Second Edition) Make the most of HTML5 techniques to create exciting games from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785287770
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introducing HTML5 Games FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with DOM-based Game Development 3. Building a Card-matching Game in CSS3 4. Building the Untangle Game with Canvas and the Drawing API 5. Building a Canvas Game's Masterclass 6. Adding Sound Effects to Your Games 7. Saving the Game's Progress 8. Building a Multiplayer Draw-and-Guess Game with WebSockets 9. Building a Physics Car Game with Box2D and Canvas 10. Deploying HTML5 Games A. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Building with the PhoneGap build

There is another option to build Android and iPhone apps from web apps—by using the PhoneGap build service. The service allows you to upload a ZIP file of the web game. Then, it uses Web View to display the HTML, similar to our previous Web View examples.

Building with the PhoneGap build

The difference is that PhoneGap provides several hardware resources via its JavaScript API. Since our game hasn't used any PhoneGap API, it gives pretty much the same result as wrapping the Web View ourselves and building using the PhoneGap.

If you don't have any native programming experience, PhoneGap or a similar cloud building service is a good choice. If you are comfortable with native development environment, I prefer wrapping the Web View myself. This provides more flexibility for future development in case we need to mix native and Web View to make it a hybrid application.

Note

Besides a PhoneGap build, there are other services that try to put HTML5 games into the native app platform...

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