WordPress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap

A straightforward, example-based guide to leveraging your web development skills to build mobile applications using WordPress, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, and PhoneGap

Overview

• Discover how we can leverage on Wordpress as a content management system and serve content to mobile apps by exposing its API
• Learn how to build geolocation mobile applications using Wordpress and PhoneGap
• Step-by-step instructions on how you can make use of jQuery and jQuery mobile to provide an interface between Wordpress and your PhoneGap app

In Detail

With the explosive popularity of mobile apps and its much anticipated continued growth for the foreseeable future, developers will want to get their hands dirty and build some cool mobile apps. But we know that building mobile apps is not easy: we need to handle cross-platform issues, mobile devices of different screen sizes, not to mention traditional issues such as providing a content management system of the content served in the application.

Enter "WordPress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap". We leverage on some of the most popular open source projects: Wordpress, jQuery, jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap and discover how they can be pieced together to build a fully functional cross platform mobile application.

"WordPress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap" teaches you how to build mobile application with minimal effort and coding by leveraging on some of the most popular open source projects such as Wordpress, jQuery, jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap.

This book looks at some of the most popular open source projects: Wordpress, jQuery, jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap and breaks down the nitty gritty details on how to leverage on these projects to build a fully functional cross-platform mobile application with minimal coding and effort.

You will start off by quickly going through the capabilities of Wordpress. Then you will prepare some groundwork on how to make use of plugins and the GeoPlaces theme to provide geographic and API capabilities to WordPress. Next you will learn how to create an external HTML/CSS/JavaScript that consumes and posts data to your Wordpress blog. More importantly, you will see how to convert this external app into a PhoneGap in as little as five minutes. Finally, you will learn how to apply all these techniques and skills to a Wordpress app based on the Twenty-Ten theme and create a cross-platform mobile app using PhoneGap.

By the end of "Wordpress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap" you will learn how to piece Wordpress, jQuery, jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap together into a fully functional mobile app.

What you will learn from this book

• Learn about the capabilities of Wordpress
• Take advantage of geographic capabilities of Wordpress via the GeoPlaces Theme
• Expose an API from Wordpress
• Create an external app using HTML/CSS/JavaScript that interfaces with Wordpress
• Convert an HTML/CSS/JavaScript app to a PhoneGap application
• Code for a PhoneGap app interfacing with a Wordpress blog
• Learn tips and tricks on how to test your mobile app on a browser before testing it on your emulator

Approach

This is a practical step-by-step tutorial.

Who this book is written for

If you are a developer with basic knowledge of Wordpress, HTML/CSS/JavaScript seeking to understand how to further your knowledge in creating cross-platform mobile applications using PhoneGap, then this book is for you.

這是一本以實例為基礎的指南，教你如何運用網頁開發技能，使用WordPress、jQuery、jQuery Mobile和PhoneGap來建立移動應用程式。

概述:
- 發現如何利用WordPress作為內容管理系統，通過公開其API向移動應用程式提供內容
- 學習如何使用WordPress和PhoneGap建立地理位置移動應用程式
- 逐步指導你如何使用jQuery和jQuery Mobile在WordPress和PhoneGap應用程式之間提供介面

詳細內容:
隨著移動應用程式的爆炸性流行和可預見的持續增長，開發人員希望能夠親自動手建立一些酷炫的移動應用程式。但我們知道，建立移動應用程式並不容易：我們需要處理跨平台問題、不同螢幕尺寸的移動設備，更不用說提供應用程式中所提供的內容的內容管理系統等傳統問題。

這本書介紹了一些最受歡迎的開源專案：WordPress、jQuery、jQuery Mobile和PhoneGap，並解析了如何將它們結合起來建立一個功能完整的跨平台移動應用程式。

『WordPress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap』教你如何最小化努力和編碼，利用一些最受歡迎的開源專案，如WordPress、jQuery、jQuery Mobile和PhoneGap，建立移動應用程式。

本書深入探討了一些最受歡迎的開源專案：WordPress、jQuery、jQuery Mobile和PhoneGap，並詳細介紹了如何利用這些專案來建立一個功能完整的跨平台移動應用程式，只需最少的編碼和努力。

你將首先快速了解WordPress的功能。然後，你將準備一些基礎工作，以利用插件和GeoPlaces主題為WordPress提供地理位置和API功能。接下來，你將學習如何創建一個外部的HTML/CSS/JavaScript應用程式，用於消耗和發布數據到你的WordPress部落格。更重要的是，你將看到如何在短短五分鐘內將這個外部應用程式轉換為PhoneGap應用程式。最後，你將學習如何將所有這些技術和技巧應用於基於Twenty-Ten主題的WordPress應用程式，並使用PhoneGap創建一個跨平台移動應用程式。

通過閱讀『WordPress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap』，你將學會如何將WordPress、jQuery、jQuery Mobile和PhoneGap結合在一起，建立一個功能完整的移動應用程式。

本書將以實用的逐步教程形式呈現。

本書適合具備WordPress、HTML/CSS/JavaScript基礎知識的開發人員，希望了解如何進一步掌握使用PhoneGap創建跨平台移動應用程式的知識。