PhoneGap 3.x Mobile Application Development Hotshot - Softcover

Kerri Shotts

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783287926 ISBN 13: 9781783287925

Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account, 2014

Synopsis

Create useful and exciting realworld apps for iOS and Android devices with 12 fantastic projects

About This Book

• Use PhoneGap 3.x effectively to build real, functional mobile apps ranging from productivity apps to a simple arcade game
• Explore often-used design patterns in apps designed for mobile devices
• Fully practical, project-based approach to give you the confidence in developing your app independently

Who This Book Is For

If you are a mobile developer who is familiar with Phonegap basics and wants to quickly create some cool mobile applications with Phonegap, this book is for you. You should have some experience working with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and also be able to use your operating system's command-line interface. No experience with Java, C#, or Objective C is required.

What You Will Learn

• Explore localization and globalization
• Create, save, and retrieve data using persistent device storage
• Record audio using a microphone
• Capture images and video using a camera
• Share content to social media networks
• Optimize your app for tablet-sized devices
• Locate the user's device using geolocation
• Interact with the accelerometer to create a fun arcade game
• Use core and third-party plugins to extend PhoneGap
• Look at mobile application design patterns

In Detail

PhoneGap allows you to use your existing knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create useful and exciting mobile applications.

This book will present you with 12 exciting projects that will introduce you to the dynamic world of app development in PhoneGap. Starting with their design and following through to their completion, you will develop real-world mobile applications. Each app uses a combination of core PhoneGap technologies, plugins, and various frameworks covering the necessary concepts you can use to create many more great apps for mobile devices.

About this title

Product Description

A practical guide written in a tutorialstyle, this book walks you step by step through 12 individual projects to create real world apps. Each project moves through design and implementation of the app, and also provides suggestions to enhance it. If you are a mobile developer who is familiar with Phonegap basics and wants to quickly create some cool mobile applications with Phonegap, this book is for you. You should have some experience working with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and also be able to use your operating system's commandline interface. No experience with Java, C#, or Objective C is required.

About the Author

Kerri Shotts

Kerri Shotts has worked with computers for nearly 24 years. Her love for technology and programming started when she was introduced to her first computer: a Commodore 64. She obtained a degree in Computer Science and went on to become a soft ware test engineer. After that, she was an Oracle database administrator for several years. Now, she works as a Technology Consultant creating, implementing, and maintaining custom applications (both desktop and mobile), websites, graphics and logos, and much more for her clients. You can find her blog posts at her website (www.photokandy.com), and she is active on the Google Group for PhoneGap. When she isn't working, she enjoys photography, music, and fish keeping. She is the author of two other books, Instant PhoneGap Social App Development and PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Applicati on Development Hotshot, both published by Packt Publishing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1783287926
• ISBN 13: 9781783287925
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 595