Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
10 Hour(s) 23 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Lawrence Turton
Rating
Course Overview
Learn the basic Phonegap/Cordova API's and get an insight into Ludei's CocoonJS canvas+ view for accelerated graphics!
This course will cover all standard Cordova API’s in a clear, well structured way. Each lecture will guide you through how the hybrid app model works so you really get to understand what’s going off under the hood. You’ll be learning the most advanced API’s, also I tell you what an API is, such as the file system API that can be complex. However I’ll break every single API down and go into detail about how each API works. On top of that I’ll give you some general understanding of the hardware sensors such as the accelerometer, compass and geolocation sensor’s.
All in all this course is here to take you from a web developer and give you the skills to develop hybrid app’s. Also this course is not only giving you understanding of the API’s we go further than that! As an app developer I know what it’s like coming from a web developer background. Most people have to gain certain experience whilst they become an app developer. This course gives you real world knowledge of what you should and shouldn’t do; it gives you the correct perspective of UI and UX principles and finally gives you general understanding of security and privacy. The revolution of Edward Snowden and many scare stories makes understanding privacy and security and how to deal with your user’s is most important for any app developer today.
On top of all this you’ll learn how to use the CocoonJS platform which allows acceleration of HTML5’s 2D canvas element and WebGL for 3D graphics. This is impressive and really goes to show how developing in the hybrid app market is going to change rapidly. The future truly is bright for us hybrid app developers.
In short this course is an all rounder and will give you a massive leg up. Not just showing code and giving a general overview, but teaching you how your code is executed and how Cordova and the hybrid app model works under the hood. On top of all that you’ll get some real life experience! Not just coding but principles, guidelines and best practices for security or otherwise.
Course Content
- 4 section(s)
- 52 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction & Setup
- Section 2 Cordova API
- Section 3 Ludei, CocoonJS & Cordova
- Section 4 Building your app
What You’ll Learn
- Understand the hybrid app architecture
- Have a better perspective and outlook of app development
- Setup Phonegap / Cordova on Mac, GNU and Windows
- Setup wifi testing
- Setup iOS simulation (Mac only!)
- Setup Android emulation on Mac, GNU and Windows
- Understand all the basic Cordova API's
- Battery Status, Camera, Contacts, Device Info, Network Info, Status Bar, Accelerometer, Compass, Vibration, InAppBrowser, Dialogs (notification), Geolocation, Globalization, Media Capture, File System, File Transfer, Whitelist
- Understand how to debug and review returned content from Cordova
- Installing third party plugins
- General app store guidelines and principles
- Understand basic security and privacy guidelines
- Learn the different aspects of the Android and iOS platform's
- Understand the CocoonJS canvas+ view for accelerated graphics
- Compile Cordova app's locally and on the cloud
- Compile CocoonJS app's
- Have a general understanding of iOS and Android app store submission process
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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DDani
It was a little rocky as a bit things were outdated but still very nice and beneficial to creating an application.
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AAnonymized User
npm should never be used with sudo as this course describes. It can really mess things up. Also node has changed a lot since the course was made, so some of the setup information is incorrect. The course discusses the globalization API, which does not exist in the latest version of cordova. https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/ However, the content is clear and well explained and I'm still learning useful things, so I'll keep going...
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SStefano Rubboli
Grande corso semplice da comprendere e spiega nel dettaglio tutti i plugin di cordova. Corso che consiglio a tutti
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PPablo Lopez
The content for the SDK he uses is outdated, since the version he is using is no longer available and the new one requires to do everything from the command line (No GUI available). But this is only for the emulation, so it is not needed to be able to follow the course. Apart from that you can tell he knows what he is doing and explains everything clearly.
