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Beginning PhoneGap

Write fully functional iOS and Android applications using cutting-edge PhoneGap techniques

Write fully functional iOS and Android applications using cutting-edge PhoneGap techniques

About This Video

Get the best of both worlds – traditional web technology and mobile app development – with PhoneGap

Discover everything you need to know to build powerful cross-platform apps

Develop, debug, and test your code easily through concise and simple examples

In Detail

Do you want to write effective mobile applications without spending large amounts of time learning complex SDKs? PhoneGap provides the perfect solution. PhoneGap allows developers using web technics to write cross-platform mobile applications as well as mobile enterprise applications quickly and easily, with full native access and powerful web libraries.

This video course shows you how to build a fully functional mobile application with PhoneGap quickly and easily. You will begin by installing PhoneGap before moving on to learn how to use PhoneGap-related tools to host, develop, test, debug, build, and release mobile application libraries. You will then dive into the core of PhoneGap application development by learning how to use CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript/Framework, and the PhoneGap API from a mobile application’s perspective. With the help of step-by-step examples, easily understandable code, and dynamic demos, you will be able to introduce mobile end-to-end solutions that integrate mobile apps into external services.

By the end of the course, you will know how to use PhoneGap in a convenient manner to write powerful and fascinating apps that run anywhere, quickly.

Course Curriculum

Beginning Your Journey

• PhoneGap: Advantages and Disadvantages (3:05)
• Introduction to PhoneGap (2:46)

First Application

• First PhoneGap Project (5:29)
• Preview and Deploy a PhoneGap Project (8:58)

Setting it Up

• Installing the Development Tool Set (2:43)
• Debugging the PhoneGap App Using Tools (5:04)
• Using Git to Manage the Source Code (8:49)

Rich Interactions with PhoneGap, HTML5, and CSS3

• HTML5 and the PhoneGap App (9:14)
• CSS and CSS3 (2:26)

The App Framework and JavaScript Practices

• Introducing the App Framework (3:46)
• A Demo on Using a Sencha Touch Framework (7:53)
• A Demo on Using a jQuery Mobile Framework (6:44)
• JavaScript Practices (5:47)

A Demo on the PhoneGap API

• Use Cordova 3 Plugins and APIs (7:32)
• Importing Third-Party Plugins to Cordova 2 Projects (5:13)

Servers and Making the Mobile Application Powerful

• Introduction to the Server-side Stack (2:33)
• A Demo on Using AJAX to Communicate with the Node.JS Server (8:54)
• Host Server-side Stack in Cloud (3:11)

A Complete Example

• Demo on a Simple Chat App (8:46)