What this book covers

Chapter 1, Welcome to PhoneGap 3, focuses on the new language enhancements and command-line features in PhoneGap 3.

Chapter 2, Movement and Location – Using the Accelerometer and Geolocation Sensors, is where we use built-in geolocation and accelerometer sensors. We create a mapping tool using Google Maps to display the phone's location, as well as plotting markers in the surrounding area.

Chapter 3, Filesystems, Storage, and Local Databases, looks into how to access, read, and write to and from the local file storage; list the directory contents to browse the storage; and also how to manage a local SQLite database.

Chapter 4, Working with Audio, Images, and Video, covers working with audio, images, and video, including recording/capturing and playback through local media and remote files.

Chapter 5, Working with Your Contacts List, illustrates how to manage, edit, and deal with contact information on your device.

Chapter 6, Hooking into Native Events, this chapter tells you how to override and manage native events using the PhoneGap library.

Chapter 7, Working with XUI, explains the available methods in the XUI JavaScript library.

Chapter 8, Working with the Ionic Framework, covers playing with the Ionic framework.

Chapter 9, Ionic Framework Development, look into the Ionic framework for layout and style application.

Chapter 10, User Interface Development, shows you the available mobile framework layouts, including jQuery mobile.

Chapter 11, Extending PhoneGap with Plugins, looks into creating a PhoneGap plugin across the main device formats and implementing it in the code.

Chapter 12, Development Tools and Testing, covers the setting up of your development environment and the ways to test your application.