Beginning App Development with Parse and Phonegap

CHAPTER 6

The Messenger Application

Laying the Foundation to Build a Messaging Application

The best way to appreciate the marriage between Parse and PhoneGap is to create an application from scratch. In this chapter, we will establish the basic coding pattern that will be used as the application grows.

This chapter will lay the foundation for a fully functional real-world application that you will build over the remaining chapters. Using what you have learned from previous chapters, you will set up this application’s namespace structure, test the app using an emulator, and add the app’s first feature namespace for storing the core functionality ...