PhoneGap (Cordova) and the Command Line

PhoneGap Meetup Vancouver 09/2012

What I Do

• Work on Apache Cordova
• Drink beer
• Play ping pong

IDEs Suck

Xcode. My arch-nemesis.

IDEs Suck, continued

Eclipse. No.

Use the command line, Luke

Cordova/PhoneGap has create and debug commands!

$ cd cordova-ios
$ ./bin/create ~/apps/myIosCordovaApp ca.filmaj.cordovaios MyIosCordovaApp
$ cd ~/apps/myIosCordovaApp
$ ./cordova/debug
$ ./cordova/emulate
  

Plugins

• Add native capabilities
• Exposed via a consistent JavaScript API
• Can be cross-platform, doesn't have to be

Plugin Specification

CLI + Plugins

CLI, turned up to 11

WARNING: Incoming Live Demo

http://github.com/filmaj/cordova-client

Thanks eh

@filmaj

http://filmaj.ca

http://github.com/filmaj/cordova-client

http://github.com/ghughes/fruitstrap

http://github.com/filmaj/cordova-ext-statusbar

http://github.com/filmaj/cordova-ext-echo