Apache Cordova in Action

361 Pages·2015·11.1 MB·English

by  Raymond K. Camden

Apache Cordova in Action
Raymond K. Camden
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Brief Table of Contents
Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this Book
About the Cover Illustration
1. Getting started with Apache Cordova
Chapter 1. What is Cordova?
Chapter 2. Installing Cordova and the Android SDK
2. Core concepts
Chapter 3. Creating Cordova projects
Chapter 4. Using plugins to access device features
Chapter 5. Mobile design and user experience
Chapter 6. Considerations when building mobile apps
Chapter 7. Tools for debugging Cordova and other hybrid apps
Chapter 8. Creating custom plugins
Chapter 9. Packing options for Cordova projects
Chapter 10. Using PhoneGap tools
3. Application release
Chapter 11. Submitting your app
Chapter 12. Building an RSS reader app with Ionic
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Listings
Table of Contents
Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this Book
About the Cover Illustration
1. Getting started with Apache Cordova
Chapter 1. What is Cordova?
1.1. The history of PhoneGap (and Cordova)
1.2. How PhoneGap and Cordova relate
1.2.1. How are they the same?
1.2.2. How do they differ?
1.2.3. Official websites
1.3. What Cordova provides
1.3.1. Command-line tool
1.3.2. Hardware access
1.3.3. Plugin support
1.4. What Cordova doesn’t provide
1.5. When you wouldn’t use Cordova
1.6. Web standards and Cordova
1.7. Summary
Chapter 2. Installing Cordova and the Android SDK
2.1. Installing the Android SDK
2.2. Installing Apache Ant
2.3. Installing Git
2.4. Installing Node.js
2.5. Setting up your PATH
2.6. Installing Cordova
2.7. Making your first Cordova project
2.8. Summary
2. Core concepts
Chapter 3. Creating Cordova projects
3.1. Creating projects with the Cordova CLI
3.2. Digging into a Cordova project
3.3. Adding platforms
3.4. Working with Android emulators and devices
3.4.1. Working with devices
3.5. Sending your Cordova application to the emulator (or device)
3.6. Building your first real application
3.7. Summary
Chapter 4. Using plugins to access device features
4.1. What are plugins?
4.2. Finding (and evaluating) plugins
4.3. Managing plugins and the Cordova CLI
4.4. Plugins and the development cycle
4.5. The deviceready event
4.6. Plugin example: Dialogs
4.6.1. Better dialogs with the Cordova Dialogs plugin
4.6.2. Building an application with the Dialogs plugin
4.7. Plugin example: Camera
4.8. Plugin example: Contacts
4.9. Summary
Chapter 5. Mobile design and user experience
5.1. Congratulations—you’re a (horrible) mobile developer!
5.1.1. A good example of a bad UI
5.1.2. Put some lipstick on the pig: improving the application
with CSS
5.1.3. The meta viewport tag
5.2. Enhancing your Cordova UI with Bootstrap
5.2.1. Introducing Bootstrap
5.2.2. Another example: the camera app
5.2.3. Bootstrap does more
5.3. Mobile UI frameworks: an overview
5.3.1. Ionic: UI, UX, and more
5.3.2. jQuery Mobile: powerful and simple
5.3.3. Ratchet: Android and iOS friendly
5.3.4. Kendo UI: large and commercially supported
5.4. Summary
Chapter 6. Considerations when building mobile apps
6.1. Congratulations—you’re a (slightly better) mobile developer!
6.2. Single-page applications and you
6.2.1. So why should you care?
6.2.2. A SPA for you, a SPA for me, a SPA for everyone!
6.2.3. jQuery Mobile: the basics
6.2.4. Mixing jQuery Mobile and Cordova
6.3. Building offline-ready Cordova applications
6.3.1. Problems with the application
6.3.2. Adding offline support to the GitHub Search application
6.4. Supporting the entire planet
6.4.1. Improving the GitHub Search application for the world
6.5. Storing data on the device
6.5.1. A real-world example
6.5.2. Options for handling data storage
6.5.3. Selecting the type of data storage
6.5.4. Improving the GitHub Search application
6.6. Summary
Chapter 7. Tools for debugging Cordova and other hybrid apps
7.1. Finding the bug is nine-tenths the work of solving it
7.2. A broken app
7.3. Working with Chrome remote debugging on Android
7.3.1. Preparing for Chrome remote debugging
7.3.2. Features of Chrome’s developer tools
7.3.3. Putting Chrome remote debugging to use
7.4. Remote debugging with iOS and Safari
7.4.1. Preparing for Safari remote debugging
7.4.2. Features of Safari’s developer tools
7.5. Working with Weinre
7.5.1. Installing Weinre
7.5.2. Running Weinre
7.6. Other debugging options