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Chapter 1
Introducing PhoneGap
In this chapter, the following topics will be covered:
◾ Introduction to PhoneGap
◾ Exploring PhoneGap’s features
◾ Setting up an Android environment
◾ Creating a first PhoneGap application for Android
◾ Updating the Activity class
◾ Configuring the project metadata
◾ Ensuring PhoneGap is loaded
Today, there are many smartphone platforms on the market: Android, iPhone, BlackBerry,
Nokia, Windows Phone 8, and Samsung’s bada and MeeGo. e job of developing cross-platform
mobile applications has become very critical because of the growing number of mobile operating
systems (OSs). e developers have to first set up di