Mobile App Development with PhoneGap [Video]

Video Description

Want to develop applications for iOS and Android, but don't want to learn yet another programming language? PhoneGap is your answer. With PhoneGap you can develop complete mobile applications using HTML5, Javascript and CSS.

Style and Approach

You'll learn from extensive on camera demonstrations and be able to download the many examples you see the instructor create on screen. This course gets practical very quickly as you'll be working with the phone hardware and interacting with the same real-world API's that professional developers use everyday-- such as Google Places and Google Maps

What You Will Learn

• Use the PhoneGap Desktop app to create new PhoneGap mobile apps
• Use the PhoneGap Desktop app and PhoneGap Mobile app to test new apps
• Create a new PhoneGap app template
• Test a PhoneGap project in the browser
• Include the JQuery library for UI
• Create single and multi-page user interfaces
• Create collapsible content blocks to optimize mobile screen space
• Use jQuery Mobile UI elements to create usable mobile apps
• Use the Local Storage object for permanent on-device storage
• Storing data in the on-device database
• Retrieving data from the on-device database
• Obtain the device's location using geolocation tools
• Obtain location information with the Google Places API
• Obtain location information and Maps from the Google Maps API
• Play audio and video content on the device
• Control media content using Javacript
• Determine device position on X,Y and Z axis with the accelerometer
• Use the accelerometer to move on-screen objects
• Access device hardware including the camera
• Obtain and save images with the camera
• Detect gestures using the Hammer.js library
• Integrate taps and press gestures in to your application
• Integrate swipe and pan gestures in to your mobile app
• Determine information about the device on which your app is running
• Work with device orientation
• Determine information about the network to which device is connected
• Determine battery status of device
• Send a push notification to an app
• Process a push notification so it appears in the messaging bar
• Configure the Config.xml for app release
• Build with Adobe PhoneGap Build
• Build with the Command Line Interface
• Complete pre-release testing of a mobile app

AuthorsMark Lassoff

Mark Lassoff's parents frequently claim that he was born to be a programmer. In the mid-eighties, when the neighborhood kids were outside playing kickball and throwing snowballs, Mark was hard at work on his Commodore 64 writing games in the BASIC programming language. Computers and programming continued to be a strong interest in college where Mark majored in Communications and Computer Science. After completing his college career, Mark worked in the software and web development departments at several large corporations.

In 2001, on a whim, while his contemporaries were conquering the dot com world, Mark accepted a position training programmers in a technical training center in Austin, Texas. It was there that Mark fell in love with teaching programming, which has been his passion ever since. Today Mark is a top technical trainer, traveling the country providing training for software and web developers. Mark's training clients include the Department of Defense, Lockheed Martin, Discover Card Services, and Kaiser Permanente. He has consulted for companies such as Dell, Target, Lockheed Martin, and government agencies including the US House of Representatives.

He lives in coastal Connecticut near the Connecticut River, where he is in the process of redecorating his house. Want to help?

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