Mastering PhoneGap Mobile Application Development电子书

Mastering PhoneGap Mobile Application Development

Table of Contents

Mastering PhoneGap Mobile Application Development

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. Task Automation

Before we begin

About Logology

Why use Gulp for task automation?

Setting up your app's directory structure

Installing Gulp

Creating your first Gulp configuration file

Creating a modular Gulp configuration

Copying assets

Performing substitutions

How to execute Cordova tasks

Managing version numbers

Supporting ES2015

Linting your code

Uglifying your code

Putting it all together

Summary

2. ECMAScript 2015 and Browserify

Getting started

Benefits of ES2015

Block scope

Arrow functions

Simpler object definitions

Default arguments

Variable arguments

Destructuring and named parameters

String interpolation

Promises and a taste of ES2016

Classes

Modules

More information

Using Browserify

Modifying our Gulp configuration

Including Node.js packages

Summary

3. Sassy CSS

Getting started

Learning Sass

Comments

Calculation

Variables

Nesting

Mixins and functions

Object-oriented CSS

Modules and partials

Integrating Sass with Gulp

Including the Stylesheets installed via npm

Summary

4. More Responsive Design

Getting started

Pixel densities

The CSS3 units

Media queries

Image sizing

Using flex-box layout

Summary

5. Hybrid Application Accessibility

Getting started

Types of accessibility features

Color vision deficient

Low vision

Blindness

Auditory disabilities

Motor disabilities

Dyslexia

Seizures

Accessibility for free

What is WAI-ARIA?

The WAI-ARIA roles

Accessibility examples

Separation of presentation and content

Accessible icon buttons

Accessible navigation

Accessible lists

Accessible alerts and dialogs

Fitting in with native accessibility features

Installing the Mobile Accessibility Plugin

Detecting the user's preferred text size

Detecting a screen reader

Speaking custom text

Useful tools

Summary

6. Testing and UI Automation

Getting started

An introduction to assertions

Writing tests using Chai

Language chains

Logical words

Testing existence and types

Testing equality

Testing collections

Running test suites using Mocha

Writing UI automation tests

Installing Appium

Exploring your app with Appium

Creating test cases

Running UI Automation tests using Appium and Mocha

Integrating our tests with Gulp

Summary

7. IndexedDB

Getting started

IndexedDB support and polyfills

Differences between relational and key-object storage

Creating a database

Creating an object store within the database

Handling database upgrades

Transactions

Storing objects

Getting objects

Deleting objects

Using cursors and indexes

Closing the database

Additional resources

Summary

8. Web SQL Database

Getting started

Web SQL Database support

The Cordova SQLite plugin

Creating and opening databases

Transactions

Creating tables

Inserting data and binding values

Querying data (single table, joins, and so on)

Deleting data

The SQLite utilities

Summary

9. Transferring Files

Getting started

Configuring the whitelist

Downloading files from a server

Receiving files using PHP on a server

Uploading files to a server

Monitoring progress

Aborting transfers

Security concerns

Summary

10. Performance

Getting started

Defining performance

The performance difference between desktop browsers, emulators, and physical devices

Desktop browser performance differences

Power availability and consumption

Battery life

Browser impacts

Memory

Storage

Lag

Emulator performance differences

Profiling your app

Profiling on Android

Profiling on iOS

Caveats

Correcting input lag

Correcting visual stutters

Reaching 60 fps

Correcting memory problems

Splitting up and delegating long computations

Summary

11. Graphical Assets

Getting started

App icon requirements

Creating an app icon

Launch screen requirements

Creating a Launch Screen

Configuring your app

Useful resources

Summary

12. Deployment

Build modes

Distribution methods

Signing up for developer accounts

Becoming an Apple iOS developer

Becoming a Google Play Store developer

Generating signed release builds

Managing the iOS signing identities

Managing iOS App IDs

Managing iOS devices

Managing the iOS provisioning profiles

Creating an Android keystore

Signing the release build

Deploying ad hoc releases

Deploying via e-mail

Deploying via URL

Deploying via Diawi

Deploying app store releases

Deploying to the Apple App Store

Deploying to the Google Play Store

Resources

Summary

Index