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PhoneGap Native Plugins Yeah… it can do that.

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Who is this guy?

Andrew Trice Technical Evangelist, Adobe

atrice@adobe.com

h!p://tricedesigns.com

@andytrice

h!p://github.com/triceam

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What is PhoneGap?

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  Application container that allows you to build natively installed apps using HTML, CSS & JavaScript

h!p://www.phonegap.com

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OK, so what OS features does PhoneGap expose?

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http://phonegap.com/about/features

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But what if you want more?

  PhoneGap is extensible with a “native plugin” model that enables you to write your own native logic to access via JavaScript.

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OK, how does that work?

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OK, how does that work?

  In JavaScript: PhoneGap.exec()   PhoneGap.exec(success, fail,

”NameOfClassMapping”, ”nameOfFunction", [url]);

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OK, how does that work?

In native code: use PGPlugin and PluginResult classes.

iOS: PluginResult* pluginResult = [PluginResult

resultWithStatus:PGCommandStatus_OK messageAsString: result];

[self writeJavascript: [pluginResult toSuccessCallbackString: self.callbackID]];

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OK, how does that work?

In native code: use PGPlugin and PluginResult classes.

Android: public PluginResult execute(String action,

JSONArray data, String callbackId){

//do something

result = new PluginResult(Status.OK);

return result;

}

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But what if you want more?

  "ere are lots of open source plugins at h!ps://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins

  Learn more at h!p://wiki.phonegap.com/w/page/36752779/PhoneGap%20Plugins

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