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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

Generate a Cordova application


Before moving forward, let's prepare a Cordova/PhoneGap application. We can implement the entire game in a web browser, and port it into Cordova in the end. However, I would like to finish this task earlier rather than later.

Let's remember what we did in Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring PhoneGap, and run the command to generate the Cordova application:

$ cordova create crazy-bubbles com.cybind.crazybubbles CrazyBubbles

This command will create a project for us. We now need to add two of our favorite platforms (iOS and Android):

$ cd crazy-bubbles
$ cordova platform add ios
$ cordova platform add android

To make out status bar look nice, let's just add a status bar plugin, as we did earlier:

$ cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.statusbar

Now let's adjust style of the status bar by adding several preferences into config.xml in the root folder:

<preference name="StatusBarOverlaysWebView" value="false" />
<preference name="StatusBarBackgroundColor...
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