PhoneGap: Beginner's Guide - Third Edition

by Purusothaman Ramanujam, Giorgio Natili

Overview

• Build hybrid mobile applications with PhoneGap/Cordova using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Optimize and increase the performance of you applications with Phonegap/Cordova plugins
• A step by step guide, filled with real-world examples to help you create hybrid mobile applications

This book is for web developers who want to be productive in the mobile market quickly. In fact, by using PhoneGap, it's possible to deploy native applications based on web standards. This book assumes a very small knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript and mobile platforms, such as Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and Windows Phone, and takes the reader step-by-step into a deep overview of PhoneGap and its APIs.

• Get acquainted with the fundamentals of PhoneGap
• Use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create, debug, and deploy your own mobile applications
• Work with mobile-specific frameworks such as iOS and Android to design your applications
• Install and work with all PhoneGap/Cordova plugins
• Implement device-oriented APIs related to contacts, files, the camera, and geolocations
• Use PhoneGap/Cordova events for accessibility
• Enhance and optimize your application for real-time environments

Given the increase in usage of mobile devices, mobile app development is in huge demand. This book provides you with the skills you need to successfully create, develop, debug, and deploy a cross-platform mobile application with PhoneGap 5. The book starts with the basics of PhoneGap, covering setting up your development environment, creating a simple project, and debugging and deploying it to your mobile devices. By sequentially working through the sections in each chapter, you will quickly get to know about the available features of various mobile frameworks and the various PhoneGap plugins you can utilize to create your apps. You will then learn how to build a hybrid application using PhoneGap. Finally, by the end of the book, you will be able to implement the most common features of modern mobile apps and build rich, native-style applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784393045
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	07/28/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	284
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Purusothaman Ramanujam is a mainframe consultant and an automation expert by profession and a full stack web developer and trainer by passion. He holds a bachelor's degree in information technology and a master's degree in financial management. He has a strong domain knowledge of financial markets. Apart from working full-time at a multinational corporation, he freelances and contributes to various open source projects. In his personal blog at http://www.purusothaman.me, he writes about technology, Tamil poetry, French, and more.

Giorgio Natili is an author, educator, community leader, and lead UI engineer at McGraw Hill Education; he is also a publisher of print and digital information services for the academic, professional, and library markets.
At McGraw Hill, he is involved with multiple client-side teams on cross-platform mobile and web applications, developing custom components (web and native) and bringing mock-ups to life!
Giorgio was also the founder of GNStudio, a boutique Rome-based development and design studio specializing in engaging and accessible web and mobile experiences.
As a strong proponent of agile development practices, Giorgio's areas of expertise include web standards-based application development, frontend development, gaming, video streaming, iOS development using Swift and Objective-C, Android development, and hybrid development (mobile and wearables).
Giorgio is the founder of Mobile Tea (http://www.meetup.com/mobiletea/), a fresh and innovative approach to community tech events, and is involved in several other community-driven events in Italy and the US.