Enhance your JavaScript skills by venturing into the domain of developing mobile applications About This Book * Extend your JavaScript skillset to build, test, and launch mobile apps with confidence * Follow three sample projects to experience Ionic's impressive capabilities * Extend the power of Apache Cordova by creating your own Apache Cordova cross-platform mobile plugins Who This Book Is For This Learning Path is for JavaScript web developers looking to develop mobile applications using various JavaScript descendent technologies. It is for anyone who wants to learn how to build fast and stylish native mobile app using the skills they already have. If you are already using React on the web, we're confident you'll be able to quickly get up and running with React Native for iOS and Android. See Ionic in action, and find out how it can transform the way you build mobile apps. What You Will Learn * Develop, build, run, and deploy great cross-platform mobile applications using Apache Cordova * Create complete mobile apps using Apache Cordova that runs on Apple iOS, Google Android, and Windows Phone * Create a neat user interface for your mobile application using jQuery Mobile * Gain an in-depth understanding of how React Native works behind the scenes * Write your own custom native UI components * Develop native modules in Objective-C and Java that interact with JavaScript * Get to know Ionic by creating three complete mobile applications In Detail A great mobile app is rapidly becoming crucial for a huge range of businesses. With a great app, your customers or your readers don't come to you - you go with them, just a few clicks and swipes away. This Learning Path shows you how to build awesome mobile apps with some of the best tools currently being used by some of the smartest developers in the industry. Taking you through JavaScript impressive development ecosystem - from jQuery Mobile to React, through to Ionic - we'll show you how to put your skills into practice so you can build your next mobile apps with confidence and style. In this Learning Path, from jQuery to React, to Ionic, we'll cover everything you need to start In the first module you'll learn how to get stuck into Apache Cordova and find out how to use it as the key platform for developing your mobile app. It offers an efficient way to develop hybrid apps, which means you won't have to connect to platform specific APIs or use their UI framework, and can instead harness your JavaScript web development skills. Make sure you have your HTML, CSS and jQuery skills at the ready. In Module 2 we'll show you how to take advantage of React Native. It has a reputation for having a steep learning curve, but we'll make it easy for you, making sure you make full use of your existing knowledge and getting you up and running with a sample application. You'll also learn how to create components, how to create multiple screens, as well as using native UI components and accessing native APIs. In the third and final module you'll get started with Ionic. With three practical projects you can build yourself, we've made sure that you'll be learning by doing - which means you'll not only develop new skills much more quickly, but you'll have produced something tangible at the end of it! This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: * JavaScript Mobile Application Development by Hazem Saleh * Getting Started with React Native by Ethan Holmes and Tom Bray * Ionic Framework By Example by Sani Yusuf Style and approach This Learning Path course provides a simple and easy way to build mobile applications in JavaScript descendent technologies such as jQuery, ReactJS, and Ionic.

Learn to build modern native iOS and Android applications using JavaScript and the incredible power of React About This Book * Learn to design and build a fully-featured application using the newest cutting-edge framework from Facebook * Leverage your JavaScript skills to become a native app developer * Develop custom UI components, implement smooth navigation, and access native features such as geolocation and local storage Who This Book Is For This book is for web developers who want to learn to build fast, good-looking, native mobile applications using the skills they already have. If you already have some JavaScript knowledge or are using React on the web, then you will be able to quickly get up and running with React Native for iOS and Android. What You Will Learn * Set up the React Native environment on both devices and emulators * Gain an in-depth understanding of how React Native works behind the scenes * Write your own custom native UI components * Learn the ins and outs of screen navigation * Master the art of layout and styles * Work with device-exclusive data such as geolocation * Develop native modules in Objective-C and Java that interact with JavaScript * Test and deploy your application for a production-ready environment In Detail React Native is a game-changing approach to hybrid mobile development. Web developers can leverage their existing skills to write mobile applications in JavaScript that are truly native without using cross-compilation or web views. These applications have all of the advantages of those written in Objective-C or Java, combined with the rapid development cycle that JavaScript developers are accustomed to. Web developers who want to develop native mobile applications face a high barrier to entry, because they are forced to learn platform-specific languages and frameworks. Numerous hybrid technologies have tried to simplify this process, but have failed to achieve the performance and appearance that users expect. This book will show you all the advantages of true native development that React Native has without the steep learning curve, leveraging the knowledge you already have. We do this by getting you up and running quickly with a sample application. Next, we'll introduce you to the fundamentals of creating components and explain how React Native works under the hood. Once you have established a solid foundation, you will dive headfirst into developing a real-world application from start to finish. Along the way, we will demonstrate how to create multiple screens and navigate between them,use layout and style native UI components, and access native APIs such as local storage and geolocation. Finally, we tackle the advanced topic of Native modules, which demonstrates that there are truly no limits to what you can do with React Native. Style and approach This book provides a simple and easy way to build mobile applications in JavaScript. Each topic takes you through the life cycle of creating a fully-functional native app, with detailed explanations of the entire process.

Revised Edition, 2013 Author Ethan Holmes takes a humorous, witty yet realistic look at some personal issues. Life is full of choices which set us upon a certain path in every single category of our existence whether it is what we do for a living, what we own or want to own and who our friends and family are. Everything from media advertising to your upbringing as a child invites you to come over and sit in a warm tub of crap to help you make those choices. Want, need, should have and must have live right next door to inadequacy, perceptions of self-worth and what others think of you. What would your life be like if you started making different choices? What would happen if you stopped accepting invitations to sit in other people's tubs of crap and stopped issuing them to others? Read the well-received Live Your Life in a Crap Free Zone by Ethan Holmes to see if it's time for you to make different choices and travel a different path.

Earth's Blood, Revised Edition 2013 This is no earthquake. This isn't a city getting jostled around and the survivors digging out the dead. It's not about the power going out for a week and then all is well again. This is Earth; ripe for the most catastrophic seismic event man has ever seen. Thousands of years of unreleased pressure setting the stage for a cataclysm that will change the entire planet and cause the human race to confront the looming possibility of its own extinction. In the aftermath of massively destructive tsunamis, violently active volcanoes, powerful tremors and seasons turned upside down, survivors struggle against a rapidly changing planet and those who would steal and kill to live another day. Earth's Blood transports the reader around the world and into the lives of everyday people. Some will live to tell a story; many will not.