Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this Book
About the Cover Illustration
1. Getting started with Apache Cordova
Chapter 1. What is Cordova?
1.1. The history of PhoneGap (and Cordova)
1.2. How PhoneGap and Cordova relate
1.2.1. How are they the same?
1.2.2. How do they differ?
1.2.3. Official websites
1.3. What Cordova provides
1.3.1. Command-line tool
1.3.2. Hardware access
1.3.3. Plugin support
1.4. What Cordova doesn’t provide
1.5. When you wouldn’t use Cordova
1.6. Web standards and Cordova
1.7. Summary
Chapter 2. Installing Cordova and the Android SDK
2.1. Installing the Android SDK
2.2. Installing Apache Ant
2.3. Installing Git
2.4. Installing Node.js
2.5. Setting up your PATH
2.6. Installing Cordova
2.7. Making your first Cordova project
2.8. Summary
2. Core concepts
Chapter 3. Creating Cordova projects
3.1. Creating projects with the Cordova CLI
3.2. Digging into a Cordova project
3.3. Adding platforms
3.4. Working with Android emulators and devices
3.4.1. Working with devices
3.5. Sending your Cordova application to the emulator (or device)
3.6. Building your first real application
3.7. Summary
Chapter 4. Using plugins to access device features
4.1. What are plugins?
4.2. Finding (and evaluating) plugins