Speeding up a PhoneGap project
In the last recipes, we have seen how to build a web app with jQTouch and convert it into a native app through PhoneGap. In this recipe, we'll see how to reduce the steps involved and see an alternative solution for jQTouch.
Getting ready
We'll require access to PhoneGap Build at https://build.phonegap.com/. At the time of writing, this feature is in private beta and would require jQuery Mobile from http://jquerymobile.com/ along with jQuery core.
How to do it...
To speed up the development, we have to reduce the steps and improve our programming approaches:
PhoneGap Build service:
Nitobi, the company that developed PhoneGap has an online build service as shown in the following screenshot. This means, we don't need to follow any build steps in our machine.
It would be enough to upload the source files in HTML/CSS/JavaScript and then build over the cloud. The cloud build service lets the source files be built for other platforms too, such as Android, Palm, Symbion...
