Chapter 2. Getting Ready for PhoneGap
As you might already know, PhoneGap (http://phonegap.com/) is a really cool open source project (now owned by Adobe), that allows you to create cross platform mobile apps using JavaScript/CSS/HTML.
This means that you can readily use your web development skills to developing mobile apps. Since this book assumes basic familiarity with PhoneGap, I will advance to how to install PhoneGap. You will primarily see examples related to Android and iOS since we are going to create mobiles apps that only support Android and iOS.
Note that we are focusing on using PhoneGap Version 3.3.0 and, as much as possible, we will be building the apps via the latest command-line interface provided by PhoneGap.
Just for your information, all source code found in this chapter—whether automatically generated by PhoneGap or coded by us—can be found in the source code folder, chapter2
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