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PhoneGap Cordova training course

Learn PhoneGap & Cordova - Rapidly Develop Apps that will run on any mobile platform

"Our tailored course provided a well rounded introduction and also covered some intermediate level topics that we needed to know. Clive gave us some best practice ideas and tips to take away. Fast paced but the instructor never lost any of the delegates"

Brian Leek, Data Analyst, May 2022

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18/08/25 - 3 days

£1795 +VAT

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10/11/25 - 3 days

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Highlights

Understand the Essential Skills
Explore App navigation techniques
Utilise Apache Cordova and PhoneGap build
Create a new Mobile Project
Obtain and Use Signing Certificate Keys
Understand the Technologies
Learn Mobile-Specific Coding Techniques
Learn how to Access Native APIs
Exploit Workflow
Explore Additional Development tools

Course Details

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

Who should attend

Delegates wishing to learn to develop PhoneGap & Cordova mobile Applications

Feedback

4.8 out of 5 average

Brian Leek, Data Analyst, May 2022

“JBI did a great job of customizing their syllabus to suit our business needs and also bringing our team up to speed on the current best practices. Our teams varied widely in terms of experience and the Instructor handled this particularly well - very impressive”

Brian F, Team Lead, RBS, Data Analysis Course, 20 April 2022

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More about this course

This Phonegap/Cordova training course is aimed at developers who are looking to create a single code-base for all mobile platforms. Our expert instructors will show you how Apache Cordova and PhoneGap provide this with HTML/CSS/JavaScript apps published to all major platforms (iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone 8, BADA etc.)

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