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PhoneGap By Example

You're reading from   PhoneGap By Example Use PhoneGap to apply web development skills and learn variety of cross-platform mobile applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785285318
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Configuring PhoneGap FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up a Project Structure with Sencha Touch 3. Easy Work with Device – Your First PhoneGap Application "Travelly" 4. Integrating the Travelly Application with Custom Service 5. Crazy Bubbles - Your First HTML5 Mobile Game 6. Share Your Crazy Bubbles Game Result on Social Networks 7. Building a Real-time Communication Application – Pumpidu 8. Building "Imaginary" – An Application with Instagram-like Image Filters 9. Testing the PhoneGap Application 10. Releasing and Maintaining the Application Index

Using Fabric and Crashlytics


Nowadays, in the world where mobile devices have become a trending platform and form-factor, we need focus on analytics and crash reporting for the mobile applications.

We can use the Fabric tool for these needs.

Fabric is a modular SDK platform that allows easier builds of mobile applications. It includes:

  • Integration into the Xcode workspace

  • Xcode launcher

  • Crashlytics—crash reporting, beta distribution, and mobile analytics

  • Twitter kit

Crashlytics is a really lightweight crash-reporting solution. Let's look at how we can use it on a Cordova iOS application example. I will take the Imaginary application in this case.

After registration on the Fabric site (https://fabric.io), we will be requested to download and install the Fabric plugin:

We will select the Xcode option here and click on the Download button in the following screen:

Once it is downloaded, we can install and launch it. After that, we can log in with the registered Fabric account, and we will see that it...

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