PhoneGap

Cross-platform PhoneGap mobile app design and development training course in London

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Upcoming dates

There are no open public schedule dates for PhoneGap course. We can offer you a private training or arrange a public course for you. Contact us here and we can make arrangements for your course.

Delivery Formats

This course can be attended face to face in an open classrooms, live online virtual classroom remotely from home or office, private one-to-one and on-site for your team at your office.


Course Outline

PhoneGap course overview

PhoneGap allows you to build native mobiles apps for mobile platforms such as iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry using web standards like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. Some of the features that PhoneGap supports are camera, compass, contacts, files, geolocation and media etc.

Phone Gap supports the following platforms:

  • Apple iOS
  • Google Android
  • Microsoft Windows Phone 7
  • HP Web OS
  • Bada
  • Symbian
  • OS 5.x

This PhoneGap app development course is designed to discuss advanced PhoneGap app development. After completing our PhoneGap app training course you would be able to build applications using PhoneGap. The complete course is hands-on based.

At the end of the course we will built a practical PhoneGap App in the class. This app development project will ensure that you can build your own apps for iPhone and Google Android.

This short classroom based PhoneGap course is hands-on and instructor-led. This training can be taken as a part-time evening course, during the week or even on the weekends. A list of all upcoming public PhoneGap training course is given on training dragon website. Each course is restricted to a maximum of ten delegates to ensure an excellent training experience.


Who is PhoneGap training for?

This training course is for you if you are interested in creating mobile applications across all devices and mobile operating systems more cost effectively and efficiently. You do not need to learn objective-C or Java to build your own iPhone or Android apps.

The path taken by complete beginners to the PhoneGap course is given here:

1. 4-day Web Design course

2. 1-day Introduction to Programming

3. 2-days JavaScript & jQuery

4. 1-day Intro to SQL and Database (Optional, required for apps that will use a live database)

5. 4-days PHP & MySQL programming course (Optional, required for apps that will use a live database)

6. 5-days Front-End Development (Optional, required if you would like to use lates frameworks and build a mobile website as well)

7. 4-days Advanced HTML5 and CSS3 (Optional, required for apps that will use advanced features)

7. 2-days PhoneGap

If you are thinking to start a business or apply for app developer jobs, please consider our App Developer Career programme.



Prerequisites for PhoneGap course

  • A good knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3 is required.  You can get a good knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3 by taking our HTML5 and CSS3 course.
  • It is necessary to have to have practical experience of JavaScript and jQuery. Training Dragon’s JavaScript & jQuery Course can provide an insight into javascript and jQuery.
  • It would be helpful to have have some experience of building website for mobile phone. You can learn mobile website design on our mobile web design course and BootStrap course.


What will I get?

  • Training from professional PhoneGap application developers:

    Training Dragon consultants have been implementing professional  app for many years. Those consultants write and teach our PhoneGap app training courses, so their experience directly informs course content.

  • Real-time Practice and Projects:

    Our PhoneGap courses are designed to get you started in PhoneGap app development. We work on industry related projects in this PhoneGap app course. If you have a project or an idea that you wanted to turn into an app then present that idea during the course and our trainers will help you to work on your own application.

  • Course Material:

    PhoneGap app development electronic notes are included in this course.

  • Course Completion Certificate:

    After completing this training you will receive PhoneGap app development course completion certificate.

  • Support and Careers Advice:

    After the course if you have any problems or questions regarding PhoneGap app do not hesitate to contact us. Training Dragon’s trainers are expert in their fields and if you need any help with you career choice, please speak to one of our trainers.


PhoneGap Course Contents

Development Environment for PhoneGap

  • Introduction to PhoneGap
  • PhoneGap Development
  • Configuring an Android Development Environment for PhoneGap
  • Configuring a Samsung bada Development Environment for PhoneGap
  • Configuring a BlackBerry Development Environment for PhoneGap
  • Configuring an iOS Development Environment for PhoneGap
  • Configuring a Symbian Development Environment for PhoneGap
  • Configuring a Windows Phone Development Environment for PhoneGap

Mobile UIs

  • Introduction to Mobile UIs
  • Where Mobile UI Framework Fit In
  • Mobile UI Frameworks
  • JQuery Mobile Setup
  • JQuery Documentation
  • First Page
  • Second Page
  • Saving Data
  • Toolbars
  • Dialogs
  • List Views

Apache Cordova and PhoneGap build

  • Using PhoneGap Build
  • Understanding the open source parts of PhoneGap (Cordova)
  • Where Adobe PhoneGap Build fits in
  • Free and paid accounts with Adobe PhoneGap Build

PhoneGap APIs

  • Accelerometer API
  • Camera API
  • Capture API
  • Compass API
  • Connection API
  • Contacts API
  • Device API
  • Events API
  • File API
  • Geolocation API
  • Media API
  • Notification API
  • Storage API

Workflow

  • Subscribe to platform developer schemes as required (may incur fees)
  • Plan and Create App
  • Test and Debug
  • Compile to multiple platforms with PhoneGap build
  • Overview of the command-line compile process
  • Deploy to app markets

Debug

  • console debugging with LogCat
  • Weinre
  • debug.phonegap.com
  • Exercise:
  • Use weinre to modify DOM and call a function in the app

Project in PhoneGap App development

Project - Create a complete application using PhoneGap

Work on all your PhoneGap skills to build an iPhone specific app with the help of a qualified instructor

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Daily schedule

The scheme below shows what a typical day at Training Dragon looks like.

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Our Trainers

Emiliano
Emiliano
Leads our teaching team with many years of experience in teaching web development.
Ross
Ross
Brings many years of Python and Java software development experience to classrooms.
Olu
Olu
Microsoft and Oracle certified developer with years teaching experience in Android, .NET and databases.

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