With the first and second parts of this tutorial we have gotten pretty far when it comes to understanding PhoneGap and in this last part we will take a look at some more device API’s that we can make use of when creating our mobile applications with PhoneGap. The Contacts API ... The name in this API is pretty self explanatory , with this API we can access the device’s contacts database and it allows us to either create , find , clone or delete a contact. To create a contact we need to use the contacts.create...
The first part of this mini-series showed you what PhoneGap is, and how it can help you develop mobile applications with familiar technologies. In this second part we’ll look at some more device APIs. The geolocation API ... This API is used on a variety of websites to make the site (or in this case the mobile application) location aware. A simple example that would get you the user’s latitude, longitude and altitude coordinates and show them on the screen would look something like: document.addEventListener("deviceready",...
Creating Mobile applications is something a lot of web developers are keen to get into. The problem with creating these applications when coming from a web background is that new languages need to be learned. With PhoneGap that need is gone, PhoneGap allows you to build web applications with languages you are already familiar with like HTML, CSS and JavaScript. What is PhoneGap ? ... PhoneGap is an open source framework that aids in the development of cross-platform applications with languages familiar...