Beginning PhoneGap: Mobile Web Framework for JavaScript and HTML5

Book 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

Who this book is for

This book is for project managers and developers of mobile applications who plan to develop for more than one platform, and are interested in saving money and time in the development process.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Understand Cross-Platform Mobile Web Application Development
Chapter 2. Getting Started with PhoneGap
Chapter 3. A PhoneGap API Reference
Chapter 4. Setting Environmnet
Chapter 5. Using PhoneGap with jQueryMobile
Chapter 6. Using PhoneGap with SenchaTouch
Chapter 7. Using PhoneGap with GWT
Chapter 8. PhoneGap Emulators and Remote Debugging
Chapter 9. Extend PhoneGap using PhoneGap Plugin Development framework

中文：

书名：Beginning PhoneGap: Mobile Web Framework for JavaScript and HTML5

PhoneGap是一个不断发展和领先的开源移动Web应用开发框架，允许开发人员使用原生包装器为包括iOS、Android和BlackBerry在内的六个以上的移动平台构建基于JavaScript和HTML5的Web应用。该框架允许您构建基于HTML和Java脚本的应用程序，同时仍然利用本地移动设备功能，如相机、本地存储、地理位置、存储等，无论您的目标移动平台是什么。它还允许您使用更专业的JavaScript框架，如jQuery Mobile等。

开始发音间隔 是一本权威的、独一无二的书，教授跨平台移动应用程序开发背后的基本原理和策略。与其学习Objective-C这样的语言，不如从第一天起就专注于为Android、iOS、黑莓、WebOS和塞班开发应用程序–而不是像这些平台那样复杂。

这本书介绍了如何构建应用程序，利用谷歌本地搜索来创建一个完整的餐厅搜索应用程序(它使用地图来布局位置，并使用内部数据库来存储您最喜欢的餐厅)。此外，您还将学习如何通过使用PhoneGap插件编写像Dropbox这样的应用程序来扩展PhoneGap的功能(在HTML/JavaScript代码之外和本地代码中在后台同步文件)。

当你完成的时候 开始发音间隔，你将对PhoneGap了如指掌，因此，你能够比以往任何时候都更快、更高效地开发移动网络应用程序。我们将在更短的时间内赚更多的钱！

你会学到什么

本书提供了一种基于示例的方法，介绍如何构建基于PhoneGap的HTML和JavaScript，该方法集成了地理位置、摄像头、存储等设备功能。

• To understand mobile web applications development using the PhoneGap framework
• 如何为iPhone、Android、BlackBerry、WebOS和Symbian构建简单的应用程序
• 不同移动设备之间的功能差异
• 如何在PhoneGap中集成其他流行的移动JavaScript框架来构建用户界面
• PhoneGap的所有主要功能，如地理位置、摄像头、媒体、存储和其他。
• 如何构建利用OAuth与Facebook等服务进行身份验证的应用程序
• 如何使用PhoneGap插件开发框架扩展PhoneGap

这本书是为谁而写的

本书面向计划为多个平台进行开发，并对在开发过程中节省资金和时间感兴趣的移动应用程序的项目经理和高级开发人员。

Table of Contents

第1章了解跨平台移动Web应用程序开发
第2章：PhoneGap入门
第3章.PhoneGap API参考
Chapter 4. Setting Environmnet
第5章.在jQueryMobile中使用PhoneGap
第6章.在SenchaTouch中使用PhoneGap
第7章.通过GWT使用PhoneGap
Chapter 8. PhoneGap Emulators and Remote Debugging
第9章.使用PhoneGap插件开发框架扩展PhoneGap