Review: PhoneGap Beginner's Guide

Level: intermediate to advanced; plus knowledge of HTML5(API) & CSS3 and JavaScript

More info: www.phonegap.com

PhoneGap is an open source framework, creating Mobile Phone App using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, including HTML5 & CSS3 and jQuery. There are many mobile platforms for developing- iOS, Android, Blackberry, WebOS and Symbian etc.

One can also use PhoneGap with Dreamweaver CS5.5

Go to New Document>Page from Simple>Mobile Starters>jQuery Mobile (Phonegap)

Here are the features in all mobile phone platforms;

I was directly reading what platform that I will install in chapter1&2. Later on I found that this book is for experienced web developers only - not for beginners as describe by the book title.

The author gave you the techniques with samples, and finally gave you the reasons and comparing with other types. He also integrated with other open sources and demonstrated in the book.

Here are the lists:

· Implementing web server roles –Local Storage & Remote Data

· Managing a Cross-Platform Codebase - Inherent differences between platforms

· HTML5 APIs and Mobile JavaScript with XUI

· CSS3: Transitions, Transforms, and Animation with Webkit or jQuery Mobile Library etc.

· Accessing Device Sensors – Use Geolocation API from HTML5 and CSS media queries etc.

· Accessing Camera Data and Files - Grab the camera data directly, and save it to the local database

· Reading and Writing to Contacts

· PhoneGap Plugins

· Working Offline: Sync and Caching

If you are interesting learning the Phonegap as a step up from beginner, I would recommend this books.