Book description
Create cross-platform mobile apps without having to learn a new language!
PhoneGap is an open source solution, ideal for web developers wanting to build cross-platform mobile apps without having to learn a new language. Using HTML, CSS, and Javascript, PhoneGap allows you to jump into the mobile world and develop apps for iPhone, Android, and the BlackBerry.
Walks you through installing the development software
Covers the basics of each of PhoneGap's functional units
Introduces various projects you can build with the framework
Discusses using HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Explores the features accelerameter and compass
Examines media, storage and files, camera, contacts, geolocation, and more
Within Beginning PhoneGap, each new chapter builds on the lessons taught in the previous so that by the end of the book, you can have mobile apps up and running!
Table of contents
- Cover
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Introducing PhoneGap
- Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring PhoneGap
- Chapter 3: Basic Walkthrough
- Chapter 4: Events
- Chapter 5: Working with the Device, the Network, and Notifications
- Chapter 6: Accelerometer
- Chapter 7: Compass
- Chapter 8: Geolocation
- Chapter 9: Media
- Chapter 10: Camera
- Chapter 11: Storage
- Chapter 12: Files
- Chapter 13: Contacts
- Chapter 14: Capture
- Chapter 15: Creating a Note-Taking Application
- Appendix A: Answers to Exercises
- Appendix B: Tools for PhoneGap
- Appendix C: PhoneGap.js
- Appendix D: PhoneGap Plug-ins
Product information
- Title: Beginning PhoneGap
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2011
- Publisher(s): Wrox
- ISBN: 9781118156650
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