Category: Easy Deployment with PhoneGap

If you need to build a mobile app that must integrate with device specific features like camera, contacts, or the network, what mobile technology are you going to choose? Today, our choices are limited. We must build with either a native platform or use a hybrid technology like PhoneGap. It would be ideal if all…

Open App Market9 is an app store for HTML5 mobile apps that allows us to search, purchase, install, or rate HTML5 mobile apps just like the native app stores (see Figure 10–18). 8 See http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/publishing.html. 9 See http://openappmkt.com/. Figure 10–18. Open App Market To get started with Open App Market we must first install it…

In this section, we are going to wrap a jQuery Mobile app with PhoneGap and run it on the native Android platform. To set up PhoneGap on the Android platform, we will reference PhoneGap’s “Getting Started Guide with Android”7. Installation of Eclipse, the IDE for Android development, is a prerequisite. After your Android platform is…

In this section, we are going to wrap a jQuery Mobile app with PhoneGap and run it on the native iOS platform. To set up PhoneGap for the iOS platform, we can reference PhoneGap’s “Getting Started Guide with iOS.”3 PhoneGap has step-by-step instructions for installing PhoneGap on every platform and their instructions are very detailed with…

PhoneGap1 is an open-source development framework that allows you to build cross-platform native apps with web technologies like jQuery Mobile. For instance, we can take an existing jQuery Mobile web app, wrap it with the PhoneGap framework and distribute it to all native platforms that PhoneGap supports. Currently, PhoneGap supports the native iOS, Android, BlackBerry, webOS,…