Beginning PhoneGap

Beginning PhoneGap is the book to teach you how to use PhoneGap to develop HTML5 Android apps.BEGINNING PHONEGAPNTRODUCTION.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,,XiXCHAPTER 1 Introducing Phone GapCHAPTER 2 Installing and Configuring Phone GapCHAPTER 3 Basic WalkthroughCHAPTER 4 Events..45CHAPTER 5 Working with the Device, the Network, and Notifications59CHAPTER 6 Accelerometer73CHAPTER 7 Compass85CHAPTER8 Geolocation99CHAPTER 9 Media113CHAPTER 10 Camera....129CHAPTER 11 Storage∴....143CHAPTER 12 Files157CHAPTER 13 Contacts179CHAPTER 14 Capture..189CHAPTER 15 Creating a Note-Taking Application..........197APPENDIX A Answers to exercises....213APPENDIX B Tools for Phone Gap235APPENDIXc Phone Gap . js.247APPENDIXD Phone gap Plug-ins.,.,333INDEX,,,,,,,,,,,,349ffirs indd i10/27/115:04:55PMffirs indd ii10/27/115:04:56PMBEGINNINGPhone GapThomas myerWILEYJohn Wiley Sons, Incffirs indd10/27/115:04:56PMBeginning Phone GapPublished buhn Wiley Sons, Ir0475 Crosspoint boulevardIndianapolis, IN 46256www.wiley.conCopyright o 2012 by John Wiley Sons, InC, Indianapolis, IndianaPublished simultaneously in CanadaISBN:978-1-118-15665-0ISBN:978-1-11822600-1(ebk)ISBN:978-1-118-23932-2(cbk)SBN:978-1-118-25399-1(ebk)Manufactured in the United States of america10987654321No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any meansclcctronic, mcchanical, photocopying, rccording, scanning or othcrwisc, except as permitted undcr Scctions 107 or 10of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorizationthrough payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, DanversMAO1923, (978)750-8400, fax(978)646-8600 Rcqucsts to thc Publisher for permission should be addressed to thePermissions Department, John Wiley Sons, Inc, 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030,(201)748-601l, fax(201748-6008,oronlineathttp://www.wiley.com/go/permissicnsLimit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: The publisher and the author make no representations or warranties withrespect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this work and specifically disclaim all warranties, includingwithout limitation warranties of fitness for a particular purpose. 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He's been a php web developer for about tenyears, and a mobile apps developer for the past three. Until recently, he was the top dog of tripleDog Dare Media, but now works for Deal Management, LLC, out of Minnesota, where he buildsweb and mobile apps. You can follow him at @merman on twitter.ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITORSBRIAN LEROUX is the lead software architect at Nitobi inc. where he focuses on delivering web andpopular phone Gap Open Source framework, and is the creator of XUI and lawnchair or to themobile apps and helping developers all over the world write their apps. He is a contribDANNY LOWE was born in Huntington Beach, and raised in Southern california, but now callsAustin, Texas, his home. He is a computer programming superhero who has been skillfully hidingnis secret identity since 1996. When he is not writing code and saving the careers of projectmanagers by leaping tall deadlines in a single bound L owe is playing music, writing fictionand poetry, or hanging out with his wife, Stephanie, and two sons. Follow him on Twitter at@Danny InAustirffirs indd vi10/27/115:04:58PMffirs indd vii10/27/115:04:58PM