(Ebook) PhoneGap: Beginner’s Guide by Purusothaman Ramanujam, Giorgio Natili ISBN 9781784392284, 1784392286

(Ebook) PhoneGap: Beginner’s Guide by Purusothaman Ramanujam, Giorgio Natili ISBN 9781784392284, 1784392286

Create, develop, debug, and deploy your very own mobile applications with PhoneGap About This BookBuild hybrid mobile applications with PhoneGap/Cordova using HTML, CSS and JavaScriptOptimize and increase the performance of you applications with Phonegap/Cordova pluginsA step by step guide, filled with real-world examples to help you create hybrid mobile applicationsWho 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 LearnGet acquainted with the fundamentals of PhoneGapUse HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create, debug, and deploy your own mobile applicationsWork with mobile-specific frameworks such as iOS and Android to design your applicationsInstall and work with all PhoneGap/Cordova pluginsImplement device-oriented APIs related to contacts, files, the camera, and geolocationsUse PhoneGap/Cordova events for accessibilityEnhance and optimize your application for real-time environmentsIn DetailGiven 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.