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

About PhoneGap

PhoneGap, also called Apache Cordova, is an open source hybrid mobile application development framework. It uses standard and well-known web technologies such as HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and JavaScript to create cross-platform mobile applications without using native development languages.

If you want to develop a native Android application, you should know APIs related to Java and Android SDK. For an iPhone app, you need to know Objective-C or Apple's new Swift language. Similarly, for all other mobile platforms, you need to know their respective programming languages. The code you write for one platform does not work for another platform. To overcome these difficulties, we now have a hybrid mobile development framework called PhoneGap. The applications that you develop using PhoneGap can be deployed on several other platforms. It's a write-once-deploy-everywhere kind of framework.

The following is the list of mobile platforms currently supported by PhoneGap:

Android
iOS
Amazon FireOS
Blackberry 10
Firefox OS
Ubuntu
Windows Phone 8
Windows 8
Tizen
Windows 7
Browser

The framework enables developers to access all the hardware-dependent features using simple JavaScript. Developers will be able to access device contacts, location, files, device information, and much more, with simple functions. Note that a new platform called "browser" is now supported. Sound interesting? It is left up to you to increase your curiosity.