Kerri Shotts - Instant PhoneGap Social App Development
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Consume social network feeds and share social network content using native plugins and PhoneGap
Overview
- Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
- This book will guide you through using the Twitter JSON API and Phonegap as a simple way to consume social media content. Youll also be able to share content to Twitter using the Twitter Web Intents.
- Learn how to consume content using Twitters JSON API.
- Learn how to use the Twitter Web Intents to share content on the Twitter social network.
- Learn how to install plugins for Phonegap.
- Learn how to create apps for multiple platforms using the same code
In Detail
Social media integration in our apps is almost a requirement. Using Phonegap, some plugins, and JSON, we can create an app that consumes Twitter feeds and allows the user to share on Twitter.
Instant PhoneGap Social App Development shows you how to create compelling mobile apps that integrate with social media based on Phonegap. The book will show you how to consume Twitter feeds and also share content to Twitter using Twitter Web Intents.
Using code listings and easy steps, this book will guide you through the process of creating a Phonegap app, adding plugins, and using the Twitter API and Twitters web intents.
Youll learn how to install Phonegap plugins so that you can extend the capabilities of your application. Youll also be introduced to Twitters JSON API and Twitters Web Intents which allow the consuming of feed content and the posting of content to Twitter respectively. Along the way, youll also learn how to create a cross-platform mobile app that works on iOS and Android.
What you will learn from this book
- Share using Twitter Web Intents.
- Consume feeds using Twitters JSON API.
- Cross-platform mobile app development.
- Installation of additional plugins into Phonegap.
Approach
Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. Get the job done and learn as you go. This book is concise and follows a clear, step-by-step tutorial approach.
Who this book is written for
Youll need to have a desire to learn about mobile application development. Since Phonegap uses HTML, CSS, and Javascript heavily, it is important to have a good understanding of these topics. You should also have a good understanding of your desired platform and corresponding SDK and IDE (that is, if you want to develop for Android, you should be familiar with Eclipse. For iOS, you need to be familiar with Xcode.).
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Kerri Shotts has been programming since she learned BASIC on her Commodore 64. She earned her degree in Computer Science and has worked as a Test Engineer and Database Administrator. Now a Technology Consultant, she helps her clients with custom websites, apps (desktop and mobile), and more. When not at the computer, she enjoys photography and taking care of her aquariums.
Becky Gibson is a senior technical staff member in IBMs Emerging Internet Technologies Group. Her current focus is contributing to the open source Apache Cordova (PhoneGap) project to enable building compelling mobile applications using Web technologies. She was the Accessibility Lead for the Dojo Open Source JavaScript Toolkit and was responsible for implementing full accessibility in the core widget set. She participated in the development of the W3C WAI-ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) specification and was a contributor in the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group for several years. She continues her commitment to accessibility by implementing it in iOS features in Cordova and promoting mobile accessibility.
She has over 20 years of development experience in languages ranging from PC assembly, C, C++, Java, Objective-C, to web technologies. She has contributed to various Lotus and IBM projects including Lotus 1-2-3 and IBM Lotus Notes. She has a BS degree from the University of Maine and an MS in Computer Science from Boston University.
Julio Csar Snchez has been a professional software developer since 2007. Over the years he has worked with many different technologies, most of them being web related. In 2010, he discovered PhoneGap and he has been following the PhoneGap Google group since then, learning, helping other developers, and even contributing with a PhoneGap plugin. He spends some of his spare time developing mobile apps. You can visit his Web to get to know more about him and his work at www.solucionesmovil.es.
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Instant PhoneGap Social App Development shows you how to create compelling mobile apps that integrate with social media based on PhoneGap/Cordova. This book will show you how to consume Twitter feeds and also how to share content to Twitter using Twitter Web Intents.
What do we build? introduces us to the app that we will be building in this book using Twitter streams and Twitter Web Intents.
Creating the project focuses on preparing the project by downloading all the necessary components and creating the appropriate directory structure.
Designing the UI/interaction describes how we can design our user interface and also covers the interaction between the various widgets and views.
Designing the data model covers the task where we design our data model for handling Twitter users and streams.
Implementing the data model describes the implementation of our data model and creation of five Twitter accounts that we will use. We will also be introduced to the loadJSON method in PKUTIL and the Twitter API.
Configuring the ChildBrowser plugin covers the installation and configuration of the ChildBrowser plugin.
Implementing the start view describes the creation of our first view in our app, the start view. It outlines the basic view as well as helps us explore with the complementary functions of the view.
Implementing the social view explains the creation of the social view where we will display our Twitter stream. We also explore how we can use the Twitter stream data to construct a Twitter stream that the end user can interact with.
Implementing the tweet view introduces the last view, the tweet view, where the user interacts with a given tweet. We also see how this view gives the user the opportunity to share the tweet via Twitter Web Intents.
Putting it all together outlines the creation of theapp.js file and two HTML files under the www directory to get a fully functional app on our hands so that we can load the app and start it off.
The example application in this book is based on PhoneGap/Cordova 2.2. If you download a more recent version, be sure to replace the
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