JavaScript Mobile Application Development

Book Description

Create neat cross-platform mobile apps using Apache Cordova and jQuery Mobile

About This Book

• Configure your Android, iOS, and Window Phone 8 development environments.
• Extend the power of Apache Cordova by creating your own Apache Cordova cross-platform mobile plugins.
• Enhance the quality and the robustness of your Apache Cordova mobile application by unit testing its logic using Jasmine.

Who This Book Is For

If you are a native mobile developer, with some familiarity with the common web technologies of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, or if you are a web developer, then this learning guide will add great value and impact to your work. Learning how to develop mobile applications using Apache Cordova is of particular importance if you are looking to develop applications on a variety of different platforms efficiently.

In Detail

Whether you are developing a mobile app for iPad or on a Windows Phone, you need to learn the specific languages and technologies for that device. This is where Apache Cordova shines.

This book is the learning resource to use when you want to efficiently develop your own mobile applications using Apache Cordova as the platform for your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In order to develop good-looking mobile applications, this book also utilizes jQuery Mobile. jQuery Mobile is one of the best available frameworks for developing mobile-friendly web applications.

After finishing this book, you should be able to develop your very own mobile application on different mobile platforms using only JavaScript, without having to learn the native programming languages of every mobile platform.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. An Introduction to Apache Cordova
Chapter 2. Developing Your First Cordova Application
Chapter 3. Apache Cordova Development Tools
Chapter 4. Cordova API in Action
Chapter 5. Diving Deeper into the Cordova API
Chapter 6. Developing Custom Cordova Plugins
Chapter 7. Unit Testing the Cordova App’s Logic
Chapter 8. Applying it All – the Mega App

中文：

书名：JavaScript Mobile Application Development

使用ApacheCordova和jQuery Mobile创建整洁的跨平台移动应用

About This Book

• 配置您的Android、iOS和Windows Phone 8开发环境。
• 通过创建您自己的ApacheCordova跨平台移动插件来扩展Apache Cordova的功能。
• 通过使用Jasmine对其逻辑进行单元测试，提高您的Apache Cordova移动应用程序的质量和稳定性。

这本书是为谁写的

如果您是本地的移动开发人员，对常见的Web技术有一定的了解，或者您是一名Web开发人员，那么本学习指南将为您的工作带来巨大的价值和影响。如果您希望在各种不同的平台上高效地开发应用程序，那么学习如何使用ApacheCordova开发移动应用程序尤其重要。

In Detail

无论你是在iPad上还是在Windows Phone上开发移动应用程序，你都需要学习适用于该设备的特定语言和技术。这就是阿帕奇·科尔多瓦的闪亮之处。

当您想要高效地开发您自己的移动应用程序时，可以使用这本书作为学习资源，这些移动应用程序使用Apache Cordova作为您的HTML、CSS和JavaScript的平台。为了开发美观的移动应用程序，本书还使用了jQuery Mobile。JQuery Mobile是开发移动友好的Web应用程序的最佳框架之一。

读完这本书后，您应该能够在不同的移动平台上只使用JavaScript开发自己的移动应用程序，而不必学习每个移动平台的本地编程语言。

目录表

第1章：阿帕奇·科尔多瓦简介
第2章：开发您的第一个Cordova应用程序
第3章：ApacheCordova开发工具
第4章：Cordova API的实际应用
第5章：深入了解Cordova API
Chapter 6. Developing Custom Cordova Plugins
第7章：单元测试Cordova应用程序的逻辑
第八章：全部应用–Mega App