PhoneGap 3 Beginner's Guide, 3/e（Paperback）

Create, develop, debug, and deploy your very own mobile applications with PhoneGap

About This Book

• Build hybrid mobile applications with PhoneGap/Cordova using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Optimize and increase the performance of you applications with Phonegap/Cordova plugins
• A step by step guide, filled with real-world examples to help you create hybrid mobile applications

Who This Book Is For

This book is for web developers who want to be productive in the mobile market quickly. In fact, by using PhoneGap, it's possible to deploy native applications based on web standards. This book assumes a very small knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript and mobile platforms, such as Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and Windows Phone, and takes the reader step-by-step into a deep overview of PhoneGap and its APIs.

What You Will Learn

• Get acquainted with the fundamentals of PhoneGap
• Use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create, debug, and deploy your own mobile applications
• Work with mobile-specific frameworks such as iOS and Android to design your applications
• Install and work with all PhoneGap/Cordova plugins
• Implement device-oriented APIs related to contacts, files, the camera, and geolocations
• Use PhoneGap/Cordova events for accessibility
• Enhance and optimize your application for real-time environments

In Detail

Given the increase in usage of mobile devices, mobile app development is in huge demand. This book provides you with the skills you need to successfully create, develop, debug, and deploy a cross-platform mobile application with PhoneGap 5. The book starts with the basics of PhoneGap, covering setting up your development environment, creating a simple project, and debugging and deploying it to your mobile devices. By sequentially working through the sections in each chapter, you will quickly get to know about the available features of various mobile frameworks and the various PhoneGap plugins you can utilize to create your apps. You will then learn how to build a hybrid application using PhoneGap. Finally, by the end of the book, you will be able to implement the most common features of modern mobile apps and build rich, native-style applications.

使用PhoneGap創建、開發、調試和部署自己的移動應用程序。

關於本書：
- 使用HTML、CSS和JavaScript使用PhoneGap/Cordova構建混合移動應用程序。
- 使用PhoneGap/Cordova插件優化和提高應用程序的性能。
- 逐步指南，充滿真實世界的示例，幫助您創建混合移動應用程序。

本書適合對移動市場迅速提高生產力的Web開發人員。實際上，通過使用PhoneGap，可以基於Web標準部署本地應用程序。本書假設讀者對HTML/CSS/JavaScript和移動平台（如Android、BlackBerry、iOS和Windows Phone）的知識非常有限，並逐步深入介紹PhoneGap及其API。

您將學到什麼：
- 熟悉PhoneGap的基礎知識。
- 使用HTML、CSS和JavaScript創建、調試和部署自己的移動應用程序。
- 使用iOS和Android等移動特定框架設計應用程序。
- 安裝和使用所有PhoneGap/Cordova插件。
- 實現與聯繫人、文件、相機和地理位置相關的設備導向API。
- 使用PhoneGap/Cordova事件實現可訪問性。
- 增強和優化應用程序以適應實時環境。

隨著移動設備使用量的增加，移動應用程序開發需求非常大。本書將為您提供成功創建、開發、調試和部署PhoneGap 5跨平台移動應用程序所需的技能。本書從PhoneGap的基礎知識開始，涵蓋設置開發環境、創建簡單項目、調試和部署到移動設備。通過按照每章節中的部分順序進行工作，您將迅速了解各種移動框架的可用功能以及可以利用的各種PhoneGap插件來創建應用程序。然後，您將學習如何使用PhoneGap構建混合應用程序。最後，通過本書，您將能夠實現現代移動應用程序的最常見功能，並構建豐富的本地風格應用程序。