PhoneGap Cordova training course

Essential Skills

• HTML, CSS and Javascript
• jQuery and jQueryUI frameworks
• Optional jQueyrmobile and BBUI frameworks
• AJAX and JSON
• Local storage
• App navigation techniques

Apache Cordova and PhoneGap build

• Understanding the open source parts of PhoneGap (Cordova)
• Where Adobe PhoneGap Build fits in
• Free and paid accounts with Adobe PhoneGap Build
• Creating a Development Environment
• Eclipse with Plug-Ins
• Running Android Simulators
• Optional Apple Mac setup in XCode

Mobile Projects

• Creating a new project
• Importing a boiler-plate project
• Enabling PhoneGap for existing projects

Obtaining and Using Signing Certificate Keys

•  Apple Developer program
• Android Developer keys
• Blackberry and Windows keys

Understanding the Technologies

• WebKit
• Overview of native app development structures
• Overview of essential platform-specific configuration files
• App icons, covers and UI furniture
• PhoneGap white-listing

Mobile-Specific Coding Techniques

• Writing Javascript Optimised for Mobile
• Managing memory on mobiles
• CSS optimisations
• User-Interface best practices
• When to go native

Accessing Native APIs

• Geolocation
• Camer
• Accelerometer
• Contacts
• Other device-specific APIs

Workflow

• Subscribe to platform developer schemes as required (may incur fees)
• Plan and Create App
• Test and Debug
• Compile to multiple platforms with PhoneGap build
• Overview of the command-line compile process
• Deploy to app markets

Additional Development tools

• Blackberry and Windows Phone 8 emulators
• Ripple Emulator in Chrome
• Free Microsoft tools for Windows 8