WordPress mobile applications with PhoneGap [[electronic resource] ] : a straightforward, example-based guide to leveraging your web development skills to build mobile applications using WordPress, jQuerry, jQuerry mobile, and PhoneGap / / Yuxian Eugene Liang

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786440703321
• Autore: Liang Yuxian Eugene
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Birmingham, UK, : Packt Pub., 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-96111-3; 1-84951-987-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (97 p.)
• Collana: Community experience distilled
• Disciplina: 006.7; 006.76
• Soggetti: PhoneGap (Application development environment); Mobile computing
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: WordPress Overview and Installation; Preamble; Mac; Windows; The famous five-minute installation of WordPress; A five minute introduction to WordPress; Themes; Plugins; Summary; Chapter 2: Adding Geographic Capabilities via the GeoPlaces Theme; Introducing the GeoPlaces theme; An overview of the GeoPlaces theme; Setting up the GeoPlaces theme; Playing with sample data; Summary; Chapter 3: Extending WordPress Using JSON-API; Introducing the JSON-API plugin; Installation; Exploring the JSON-API pluginA simple web app to read data; Reading a blog post; Creating a Hello World JavaScript app; Consuming JSON feeds; Paging through blog posts; Paging across the blog post; Creating blog post; Manual creation of posts; Programmatic creation of posts; Summary; Chapter 4: Building Mobile Applications Using PhoneGap; Introducing PhoneGap; Getting started; Creating a Hello World application; Using jQuery in PhoneGap; Performing a RESTful GET request in the PhoneGap application; Capturing geolocation using PhoneGap API; Summary; Chapter 5: Extending WordPress to the Mobile World Introducing jQuery Mobile; Installing jQuery Mobile and theming; jQuery Mobile page template; Animation effects; Extending our PhoneGap app; Posting data to a JSON endpoint in PhoneGap; Putting everything together with the GeoPlaces theme; Hacking the JSON-API plugin; Powering your PhoneGap app; Summary; Chapter 6: Using Open Source Themes; General idea; Creating a PhoneGap Mobile app using the Twenty Ten theme; Switching to the Twenty Ten theme; Custom fields; Reading from and writing to WordPress; Preamble; Creating a post with custom fields; Reading a post with custom fields Building an Android PhoneGap app; Shifting your web app code to PhoneGap; Creating a post with custom fields; Reading a post with custom fields; Summary; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a practical step-by-step tutorial. If you are a developer with basic knowledge of Wordpress, HTML/CSS/JavaScript seeking to understand how to further your knowledge in creating cross-platform mobile applications using PhoneGap, then this book is for you.