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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 – reading and writing data on the LocalStorage


  1. Open the command-line tool and create a new PhoneGap project using the PhoneGap CLI you installed before. This will create a new directory called DeviceApi in your current working directory; this can be done using the following command:

    $ phonegap create DeviceApi
    
  2. Move to the directory you just created:

    $ cd DeviceApi
    
  3. Add the platforms you want to test on the device API. For this example, we add the Android platform:

    $ cordova platform add android
    
  4. Delete all the files and subdirectories except index.html inside the www directory. Open the index.html file you will find in the www root folder and add the following HTML code snippet:

    <button type="button" onclick="addCountry()">Add Canada</button> <br/><br/>
    <button type="button" onclick="get1Data()">Get USA Data</button> <br/><br/>
    <button type="button" onclick="getAllData()">Get All Data</button> <br/><br/&gt...
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