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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

Time for action – developing with jQuery Mobile

Let's see a quick example of how to use jQuery Mobile in a PhoneGap application. You can make any HTML page mobile friendly by using jQuery Mobile. We will create a simple app to show multiple entries in the page as a list and show some footer menus.

  1. To start with, we need to download jQuery and jQuery Mobile components and place them in our project's JS/CSS directory. jQuery is a single JavaScript file and jQuery Mobile includes both a JavaScript file and a CSS file. We need to include them both in our app's HTML page.
  2. Include the CSS file at the top of the HTML page, right above the </head> tag:
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/jquery.mobile-1.4.4.min.css" />
  3. Include the JavaScript files at the bottom of the page, right above the </body> tag:
    <script src="js/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script>
    <script src="js/jquery.mobile-1.4.4.min.js"></script&gt...
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