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

Jamie Munro

Mar 2012 · "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

About this ebook

Gain hands-on experience with the amazing PhoneGap library, using the practical recipes in this handy guide. With these solutions, you can enable your mobile web apps to interact with device-specific features such as the accelerometer, GPS, camera, and address book. Learn how to use your knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build full mobile apps for iOS, Android, and several other platforms without rewriting apps in the native platform language. Each recipe includes sample code you can use in your project right away, as well as a discussion of why the solution works.

• 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

Ratings and reviews

This book has some good recipes for people starting on the Phone gap platform who would like to see some working examples. I was after something a little more advanced, but none the less this is well written and useful.

Looks like a good book, and guess it might quite short, but the sample contains only the front cover, the copyright info an offer to upgrade (that's not applicable to the sample anyway!)

About the author

The author of 20 Recipes for Programming MVC 3 from O'Reilly Media, Jamie Munro has been developing websites and web applications for over 15 years. For the past 6 years Jamie has been acting as a lead developer by mentoring younger developers to enhance their web development skills. Taking his love of mentoring people, Jamie began his writing career on his personal blog (http://www.endyourif.com) back in 2009. As Jamie's blog grew in success, he turned his writing passion to books about web development. As well as writing books, Jamie is currently in the process of starting a new website (http://www.webistrate.com) that is geared towards helping web developers further expand their experience with many online examples using MVC3, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Jquery, Database Optimzation, and Search Engine Optimization.