Selecting a Mac for development

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• Contribute: Edit this wiki! Grab the source and help. Get started by having a look at our Roadmap
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• Issue Tracker (bugs, feature requests): http://phonegap.lighthouseapp.com

 

Tutorials

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     iPhone Tutorials

• Safari Web Programming Reference (MUST READ)
• Getting Started with PhoneGap (iPhone)
• Selecting a Mac for development
• Building your first mobile application with GeoLocation
• Removing Location from your iPhone App
• Forcing a Landscape Orientation
• Integrating with Google Maps on the iPhone
• Preventing Scrolling on iPhone Phonegap Applications
• Adding SQL Database support to your iPhone App
• Replacing All References to PhoneGap to Reflect Your App's Name
• Getting started with Dashcode

 

     Android Tutorials

• Getting started with PhoneGap Android in Eclipse
• Using PhoneGap & Apple Dashcode for Android Development Tutorial
• Getting Ready to Deploy to Android Market (Android)

 

     Blackberry Tutorials

• Getting Started with PhoneGap (BlackBerry)

• Setting your Application Icon (BlackBerry)

• Known issues (BlackBerry)

 

     Windows Mobile Tutorials

• Getting Started with PhoneGap (WiMo)

 

     Symbian/WRT

• Introduction to Web Runtime

• Getting Started with PhoneGap (Symbian/WRT)

• Testing your PhoneGap application (Symbian/WRT)

• Getting Started with PhoneGap (WRT on Sony Ericsson Satio)

• Supported Nokia Devices (Devices with WRT 1.1)

 

      Scripts

• Handling Shake Events

• Sounds

 

      Using PhoneGap Offline

• Building A Self-Contained Application (iPhone) 

 

Documentation

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• JavaScript API
• Mobile Spec
• sqlite databases in webkit

 

Code snippets 

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• iPhone: Add a contact
• iPhone: Remove a contact
• iPhone: Get contacts
• iPhone: Get number of contacts
• iPhone: Choose a contact
• iPhone: Display a contact
• iPhone: Camera API
• iPhone: Prevent copy/paste
• iPhone: Magnetometer use
• iPhone: Reachability API use
• iPhone: Show loading screen
• iPhone: Prevent callout, link selection, text auto-resize
• iPhone: Prevent rubber-banding of the view

 

Frequently Asked Questions

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Q. Do I need to "Jailbreak" my iphone to use PhoneGap?

A. No.

Q. What PhoneGap apps are available in the iPhone store?

A. projects

Q. How do you change the default PhoneGap loading screen?

A. Change the default.png file to one of your liking.

Q. What about developing on older PowerPC (PPC) architectures?

A. Follow these steps. (or PDF)

Q. I get errors while buidling my iPhone app in Xcode.

A. See the known problems & solutions.

Q. What's this I hear about Apple rejecting PhoneGap apps? Will my app get rejected?

A. Of course, Apple always has the final say. As of version 0.8, PhoneGap apps should be okay. (or PDF)

Q. I'm using navigator.geolocation on the iPhone, why does it show a popup alert with a funny url to my index.html file?

A. On iPhone OS 3.x, UIWebView's navigator.geolocation takes over, which will use the native Javascript API for it. This shows the warning and the location of the page asking for the location permission. Discussion here. 

 

Tips and Tricks for Mobile Development

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• Screen sizes for different devices
• Browser Capabilities of different devices according to W3
• Webkit Quirks
• JavaScript Tips and Tricks
• Supported Fonts for the iPhone
• Using PhoneGap as xCode Template (for Objective-C applications)
• App Store Tips
• PhoneGap-compatible Javascript frameworks (NOTE: most don't work with BlackBerry because they aren't CSS/DOM level 2 only):
  • iUI - make iPhone-feeling interfaces
  • xUI - slimmed down jQuery work-alike
  • Magic Framework - make fast and smooth iPhone-feeling apps with native-feeling widgets, lists, etc. Also provides an easy HTML5 db storage interface.
  • Dashcode - Framework from Apple (only for iPhone)
  • JQTouch - JQuery Plugin for Making iPhone-like apps
  • CiUI - CNET iPhone UI
  • Safire - iZillow JS/CSS framework (MIT License)
  • iWebKit - Quick and easy iphone-like web framework, great documentation (LGPL).
  • iphone-universal  - CSS/HTML framework for iPhone web development. Contains the iPhone-like Chat Balloons just like SMS on the iPhone (GPL)
  • WebApp.Net
  • The Dojo Toolkit - Flexible and extensible JavaScript framework

 

Videos

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• Android Videos