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  • Beginning PhoneGap: Mobile Web Framework for JavaScript and HTML5

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    About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 26.9 MB
    Pages | 346
    Language | English
    Category | Programming Web
    Description:  PhoneGap is a growing and leading open-source mobile web apps development framework that lets developers build JavaScript and HTML5-based web applications with native wrappers for more than six mobile platforms, including iOS, Android, and BlackBerry. This framework lets you build HTML- and JavaScript-based apps and still take advantage of native mobile device capabilities like camera, localStorage, geolocation, storage and much more, irrespective of the mobile platform you target. It also lets you use more specialized JavaScript frameworks like jQuery Mobile and more.
    Beginning PhoneGap is a definitive, one-of-a-kind book that teaches the fundamentals and strategies behind cross-platform mobile application development. Instead of learning languages like Objective-C, focus on building apps from day one for Android, iOS, Blackberry, WebOS and Symbian—without the complexities of these platforms.
    This book shows how to build apps which makes use of Google Local Search to create a Restaurant finder apps (which uses Maps to layout locations and uses internal database to store your favorite restaurants. Furthermore, you'll learn how to extend PhoneGap's functionality by using PhoneGap plugins to write apps like Dropbox (syncing files in the background outside HTML/JavaScript code and in native code).
    By the time you finish Beginning PhoneGap, you'll know PhoneGap inside and out, and, consequently, be able to develop mobile web apps faster and more efficiently than ever before. Make more money in less time!

    What you’ll learn
    This book offers an examples-based approach on how to build PhoneGap-based HTML and JavaScript that integrates device features like geolocation, camera, storage, and more.
    To understand mobile web applications development using the PhoneGap framework
    How to build simple apps for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS and Symbian
    The differences in capabilities across various mobile devices
    How to integrate other popular mobile JavaScript frameworks to build user interfaces in PhoneGap
    All the major features in PhoneGap, like geolocation, camera, media, storage, and more.
    How to build app which make use of OAuth for authentication with services like Facebook
    How to extend PhoneGap using the PhoneGap plugin development framework

    Table of Contents
    Understand Cross-Platform Mobile Web Application Development
    Getting Started with PhoneGap
    A PhoneGap API Reference
    Setting Environmnet
    Using PhoneGap with jQueryMobile
    Using PhoneGap with SenchaTouch
    Using PhoneGap with GWT
    PhoneGap Emulators and Remote Debugging
    Extend PhoneGap using PhoneGap Plugin Development framework
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