Beginning PhoneGap: Mobile Web Framework for JavaScript and HTML5

388 Pages·2016·28.46 MB·English

by  Rohit Ghatol

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BEGINNING PHONEGAP
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
CHAPTER 1 Introducing PhoneGap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
CHAPTER 2 Installing and Confi guring PhoneGap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
CHAPTER 3 Basic Walkthrough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
CHAPTER 4 Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
CHAPTER 5 Working with the Device, the Network, and Notifi cations . . . . . . . . . . .59
CHAPTER 6 Accelerometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
CHAPTER 7 Compass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
CHAPTER 8 Geolocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
CHAPTER 9 Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
CHAPTER 10 Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
CHAPTER 11 Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
CHAPTER 12 Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
CHAPTER 13 Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
CHAPTER 14 Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
CHAPTER 15 Creating a Note-Taking Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
APPENDIX A Answers to Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
APPENDIX B Tools for PhoneGap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235
APPENDIX C PhoneGap .js . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
APPENDIX D PhoneGap Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .333
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
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BEGINNING
PhoneGap
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
THOMAS MYER works and lives in Austin, Texas. He’s been a PHP web developer for about ten
years, and a mobile apps developer for the past three. Until recently, he was the Top Dog of Triple
Dog Dare Media, but now works for Deal Management, LLC, out of Minnesota, where he builds
web and mobile apps. You can follow him at @myerman on Twitter.
ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITORS
BRIAN LEROUX is the lead software architect at Nitobi Inc. where he focuses on delivering web and
mobile apps and helping developers all over the world write their apps. He is a contributor to the
popular PhoneGap Open Source framework, and is the creator of XUI and Lawnchair.
DANNY LOWE was born in Huntington Beach, and raised in Southern California, but now calls
Austin, Texas, his home. He is a computer programming superhero who has been skillfully hiding
his secret identity since 1996. When he is not writing code and saving the careers of project
managers by leaping tall deadlines in a single bound, Lowe is playing music, writing fi ction
and poetry, or hanging out with his wife, Stephanie, and two sons. Follow him on Twitter at
@DannyInAustin.
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