Phonegap

Find out how to build and package native device applications using Adobe PhoneGap and web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This course shows how to access the sensors and other capabilities of mobile devices through JavaScript coding, and build applications that reuse most of their code for deployment to iOS, Android, BlackBerry 6, and other mobile operating systems. Author Ryan Stewart shows how to get started with PhoneGap, including installing and setting up the software development kit (SDK), building a simple application from templates, using the most popular APIs like Geolocation and Storage, integrating jQuery Mobile and other JavaScript frameworks, and testing and debugging your app.

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.

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.

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

If you are a developer who wants to get started with mobile application development using PhoneGap, then this book is for you. Previous experience with data mining libraries will help, but is not mandatory.