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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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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

Release to Google Play


Releasing to Google Play is a little different. First of all, let's check the cordova/platforms/android/AndroidManifest.xml configuration. We need to specify:

  • versionCode: Google Play will not accept the application if versionCode is different from the previous versions in the store

  • versionName: This is not used for anything except to display to users. It's a string, so we can name it the way we want

  • Set debuggable to false, for example, android:debuggable="false"

Create a keystore file

Now, we need to create a keystore file and set a password. We should ensure that we do not lose this file because we need it with every submission to the store. If we create a new one, the application would be interpreted as a new application and not as another version of the same application.

Tip

By default, the debug configuration uses the debug keystore located in $HOME/.android/debug.keystore.

We can generate a private key using Android SDK and JDK commands. Let's do this with the following...

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