PhoneGap Essentials电子书

PhoneGap Essentials

Table of Contents

PhoneGap Essentials

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Get up and Running with PhoneGap

A brief history

What is PhoneGap?

Where can it be used?

What PhoneGap is not

Competition

PhoneGap or Cordova?

Setting up a local development environment

Mac OS

Linux

Windows

Summary

2. Mobile Platform Support

Supported platforms

Supported features by platform

Support for development

PhoneGap Build

Platform support

Using PhoneGap Build

The PhoneGap Developer App

How to use it

Summary

3. Command-line Interface

Introduction to a command-line interface

PhoneGap CLI versus Cordova CLI

Installing the PhoneGap CLI

Creating a new project

Creating a Hello project

Creating a new project

Managing platforms

Adding a platform

Listing platforms

Removing a platform

Keeping platforms up-to-date

Application description

Creating a project from a template

Managing the project

Application preview

Preparing an application

Compiling an application

Building an application

Running an application

Emulating an application

Using PhoneGap Build

Authentication

Preparing the application

Building the application

Summary

4. Plugin Support

Introducing plugins

What is a plugin?

Support for different mobile platforms

Installing plugins

Command-line Interface

Finding plugins

Adding plugins

Listing plugins

Removing plugins

Plugman

Installing Plugman

Searching for plugins

Installing plugins

Removing plugins

npm

Plugins

Battery Status

Camera

Contacts

Device

The Device Motion plugin

Device position orientation

Dialogs

FileSystem

File Transfer

Geolocation

Globalization

InAppBrowser

Media

Media Capture

Network Information

Splashscreen

Vibration

StatusBar

Summary

5. First PhoneGap Application

Starting a new application

Creating a new application

Setting up the initial code

Project folder structure

Core PhoneGap events

The deviceready event

The pause event

The resume event

Essential plugins

The Device plugin

The Network Information plugin

The StatusBar plugin

The Dialogs plugin

Summary

6. Accessing Native APIs

Native APIs

Device status plugins

Motion sensing plugins

Media functionality plugins

Notification plugins

The Battery Status plugin

The Battery Status event

The Low Battery event

The Critical Battery event

The Device Motion plugin

The getCurrentAcceleration method

watchAcceleration

clearWatch

The Device Orientation plugin

getCurrentHeading

watchHeading

clearWatch

The Geolocation plugin

getCurrentPosition

watchPosition

clearWatch

The Position object

The Coordinates object

The Vibration plugin

Vibrate

Standard vibrate

Vibrating with a pattern (Android and Windows only)

Cancelling the vibration (not supported in iOS)

Summary

7. Accessing Media Content

Introducing multimedia

Media

File management

Contacts

File Transfer

The FileTransfer object

The FileUploadResult object

Upload

Download

Abort

Contacts

Contact

The Contact object

ContactName

ContactField

ContactAddress

ContactOrganization

The create method

Find

pickContact

Camera

getPicture

cleanup

InAppBrowser

The InAppBrowser object

The InAppBrowserEvent object

Open

Summary

8. Application Development Workflow

An introduction to a development workflow

Web project development

Native platform development

Best practices

Use local assets for the UI

Network access for data

Non-blocking UI

CSS animations

Click events

Performance

Optimize the image assets

Offline status

Load only what you need

Transparency

JSHint

Testing

Debugging

Desktop browsers

The PhoneGap emulator

Weinre

iOS Debugging

Xcode

Safari Remote Debugging

Android debugging

User interface

Summary

Index