20 Recipes for Programming PhoneGap: Cross-Platform Mobile Development for Android and iPhone - Jamie Munro

Explore practical recipes in this guide to gain hands-on experience with the PhoneGap library. Discover how to enable your mobile web apps to interact with device-specific features such as the accelerometer, GPS, camera, and address book. Utilize your knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build full mobile apps for iOS, Android, and other platforms without rewriting apps in the native platform language. Each recipe includes sample code for immediate use in your project, along with a discussion of the solution's functionality.

• Add functionality that's available only on a certain device or platform
• Retrieve the device's current GPS location and place a marker on a map
• Create and save a new contact or edit an existing contact in the address book
• Take pictures with the camera or select one of the user's existing photos
• Upload a file from the local device to an external server
• Allow the device to record audio or video through your app
• Enable your application to save files locally

Author: Munro, Jamie

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Illustration: N

Language: ENG

Title: 20 Recipes for Programming PhoneGap: Cross-Platform Mobile Development for Android and iPhone

Pages: 00078 (Unencrypted)

On Sale: 2012-03-21

SKU-13/ISBN: 9781449319540

Category: Computers : Programming - General