PhoneGap is a growing and leading open-source mobile web apps
development framework that lets developers build JavaScript and
HTML5-based web applications with native wrappers for more than six
mobile platforms, including iOS, Android, and BlackBerry. This framework
lets you build HTML- and JavaScript-based apps and still take advantage
of native mobile device capabilities like camera, localStorage,
geolocation, storage and much more, irrespective of the mobile platform
you target. It also lets you use more specialized JavaScript frameworks
like jQuery Mobile and more.
Beginning PhoneGap is a definitive, one-of-a-kind book that teaches
the fundamentals and strategies behind cross-platform mobile application
development. Instead of learning languages like Objective-C, focus on
building apps from day one for Android, iOS, Blackberry, WebOS and
Symbian-without the complexities of these platforms.
This book shows how to build apps which makes use of Google Local Search
to create a Restaurant finder apps (which uses Maps to layout locations
and uses internal database to store your favorite restaurants.
Furthermore, you'll learn how to extend PhoneGap's functionality by
using PhoneGap plugins to write apps like Dropbox (syncing files in the
background outside HTML/JavaScript code and in native code).
By the time you finish Beginning PhoneGap, you'll know PhoneGap inside
and out, and, consequently, be able to develop mobile web apps faster
and more efficiently than ever before. Make more money in less time!
