[...]... Eclipse, and supports almost all features of PhoneGap You will need to download and install the following prerequisites for Android: 1 JDK 1.6+ 2 Eclipse 3.4 to 3.6 3 Android SDK with an Android 2.2 platform 4 Android ADT plugin for Eclipse 5 Android AVD for Android 2.2 6 PhoneGap SDK 1.1.0 for Android Since Android is programmed in Java, we need JDK 1.6+ and Eclipse 3.4+ We will then install Android... adhere to newer standards like HTML5/ CSS3 This adds more features to the browser world and lessens the fragmentation across mobile platforms (see Figure 1–11) Figure 1–11 Mobile browser CHAPTER 1: Understanding Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development Let’s look at Table 1–2, which lists mobile platforms and their corresponding browser platforms As you can see, all mobile platforms except the Windows... lines of JavaScript code This makes PhoneGap an ideal platform for creating mobile applications for the web services listed on programmableweb.com The restrictions are illustrated in Figure 1–13: 15 16 CHAPTER 1: Understanding Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development Figure 1–13 Single origin policy Conclusion PhoneGap uses HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3 to develop mobile applications These are standard... cross-browser JavaScript frameworks like jquery, YUI, and Google Web Toolkit Mobile OS fragmentation is the worst and most diverse fragmentation of all This adds a sizable technical challenge to launching mobile applications on all mobile platforms CHAPTER 1: Understanding Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development Multiple Teams/Products If we choose to build a mobile application for each platform using... the webview The JavaScript code in the webview invokes this code to gain access to the GPS coordinates Once the code gains access to the GPS coordinates, it centers the map accordingly This is the main principle behind the PhoneGap framework CHAPTER 1: Understanding Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development HTML5 and CSS3: The Standards for Writing Applications HTML5 and CSS3 are emerging web. .. will then install Android SDK The Android SDK is a generic SDK and does not come with support for any platform A platform is an OS version, for example 2.2 Froyo, 2.3 Ginger Bread, and 3.0 Honeycomb These platforms need to be downloaded in order to create, build, and run Android projects This plugin is called the Android ADT Plugin Once the Eclipse, Android SDK, and Android ADT (Eclipse Plugin) are... Instructions for Linux Download the archie android-dk_r11-linux_x86.tgz archive and extract it to a folder Instruction for Mac OSX Intel Download the archive android-sdk_r11-mac_x86.zip file and extract it to folder This Android SDK can support all Android platforms that have been released so far These platforms include the Android 1.1 platform to the recent Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) platform Since nobody... platforms, the Android SDK comes with no platform preinstalled For this book, we will focus only on the SDK platforms: Android 2.2, API 8, and revision 3 Since there are no platforms preinstalled, the next step is to install the platforms you are interested in Go to the Android SDK location (in our case c:\android_sdk), and open an 21 22 CHAPTER 2: Getting Started with PhoneGap executable named Android... the Android 2.2 Platform 1 Open Eclipse and create a workspace for the Android PhoneGap The next step is to create an emulator for Android Since Android comes with many platform versions, we have to create an Android Virtual Device (AVD) for each platform that is targeted In Figure 2–7, you will see your eclipse as depicted in the screen Please note that the Android emulator runs an Android Virtual Device... . framework. CHAPTER 1: Understanding Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development 15 HTML5 and CSS3: The Standards for Writing Applications HTML5 and. mobile applications for multiple platforms either have their own web services or rely on other web services. While PhoneGap can work for standalone mobile