Introduction to PhoneGap

Download free  course tutorial training about PhoneGap ,this PDF document shows the basics of this platform in order to creat a web application designed to mobile devices.

PhoneGap, creating multiplatform mobile apps 

PhoneGap is an open source framework for creating cross-platform mobile apps with traditional web technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

Mobile applications created using web technologies are called hybrid applications (ie d. Combining web and native technologies).

PhoneGap provides a cross-platform JavaScript API to access device functions (eg. Camera, GPS, contacts book ...).

Table of contents

• What is PhoneGap?
• Why would you want to use PhoneGap?
• Write once, run lots of places.
• Lower barrier of entry
• Reduced of required skills
• What platforms support PhoneGap?
• How do PhoneGap apps work?
• Build app UI using HTML & CSS
• Build app logic and interactivity with JavaScript
• What OS features does PhoneGap expose?
• Build and Distribution
• Debugging
• Open Source
• Get started with PhoneGap

The frontend development of a PhoneGap application is very similar to a web app. We develop 'single page' applications with the help of JavaScript frameworks like jQuery Mobile, BACKBONE.JS, AngularJS, Bootstrap ...

One of the important issues is to create a credible user interface, ie d. perceived and recognized by users as of a mobile application. It will take both it integrates well with the operating system and be successful (think of the animations in particular).