Apache Cordova API Cookbook (Mobile Programming) - Softcover

Wargo, John M. Wargo

9780321994806: Apache Cordova API Cookbook (Mobile Programming)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321994809 ISBN 13: 9780321994806

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2014

Using Apache Cordova, mobile developers can write cross-platform mobile apps using standard HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS, and then deploy those apps to every leading mobile platform with little or no re-coding. Apache Cordova API Cookbook provides experienced mobile developers with details about how each Cordova API works and how to use the APIs in their own applications. Coverage is included for all Cordova/PhoneGap 3 APIs.

Instead of just showing short snippets of code to explain a particular API, this guide is chock full of complete examples. You’ll find more than thirty complete Cordova applications that work on Android, iOS, Windows, and more. The sample applications demonstrate exactly what each API does and how it works, while the chapter content describes the limitations on the leading target platforms (and even offers possible workarounds).

Through realistic “cookbook” example code, mobile developer John Wargo helps you master the Cordova APIs and understand how to use them in your Cordova applications.

Topics include

Accelerometers, compass, and geolocation
Image, video, and audio–capture, playback, and management
Determining connection and device information
Interacting with the Contacts application
Responding to application events
Accessing the device file system
Globalizing apps
Using the InAppBrowser
Notifications
Custom splash screens

Special care has been taken to make the code easily readable and digestible by the reader. This guide provides the most accessible coverage, anywhere, of Apache Cordova APIs.

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About the Author:

John M. Wargo has more than twenty years of experience designing and developing enterprise applications with a focus on collaboration and process automation. He has spent the last five years focusing on mobile development and is the author of BlackBerry Development Fundamentals, PhoneGap Essentials, and Apache Cordova 3 Programming (all from Addison-Wesley). He is currently a Product Manager at SAP, focusing on the SAP Mobile Platform. He is the Product Manager for the Kapsel SDK, SAP’s suite of enterprise plugins for Apache Cordova and the SAP Fiori Client, a Cordova application available today in the Android and iOS app stores. John's personal blog can be found at www.johnwargo.com.

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