"For those not ready to tackle the complexities of Objective-C, this is a great way to get started building iPhone apps. If you know the basics of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, yours"ll be building apps in no time." -August Trometer, Owner of FoggyNoggin Software, www.foggynoggin.com Discover the Easier, Faster Way to Build High-Quality iPhone Applications Now, you donrs"t need to dive headfirst into Objective-C to write state-of-the-art applications for the iPhone. You can use web development tools and technologies you already know: JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. In this book, long-time web and mobile application developer Lee S. Barney shows you how to use the QuickConnect and PhoneGap frameworks to create secure, high-quality, modular hybrid iPhone applications. Lee S. Barney walks you through the entire hybrid iPhone development process, from creating great user interfaces to compiling, deploying, and executing applications. Along the way, he introduces techniques and sample code designed to streamline development, eliminate complexity, optimize performance, and leverage all iPhoners"s native capabilities-from its accelerometer and GPS to its built-in database. Coverage includes Using Dashcode and Xcode together to create unique, exciting hybrid iPhone applications Using the QuickConnect JavaScript API to perform tasks ranging from vibrating the phone to accessing the accelerometer and GPS location data Accessing native iPhone functionality using the PhoneGap JavaScript API Storing, retrieving, and managing data on the iPhone, even without network access Using XMLHttpRequest to access or synchronize remote data and use web services Creating Google-based maps for your own app that work like those you see in the iPhoners"s Maps application This book systematically lowers the barriers to iPhone development, enabling web developers to build any iPhone application they can imagine without long development cycles or steep learning curves!

*** Developing Hybrid Applications for the iPhone PrefaceThis book shows you how to create a new type of iPhone application: hybrid applications written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Hybrid iPhone applications are standalone applications that run like regular applications on your iPhone, but don't require the files to live on a server on the Internet.Creating hybrid iPhone applications reduces creation time and the learning curve required to get your application into the hands of your customers, because you don't have to learn Objective-C or have an intimate knowledge of the Cocoa frameworks. Hybrid Application Development ToolsThis book covers the two most commonly used open-source JavaScript software packages for writing applications for the iPhone and iPod touch devices: QuickConnectiPhone and PhoneGap. These packages enable you to build applications that access native device features directly from JavaScript, such as vibration, GPS location information, the accelerometer, and many other thingsmdall without writing a single line of Objective-C or Cocoa.QuickConnectiPhone, downloaded from http://quickconnect.pbwiki.com , exposes the most native device behavior and provides a highly engineered, full-featured framework for development use. QuickConnectiPhone dramatically reduces your application's time-to-market because part of the framework consists of all of the glue code you have to typically write in Objective-C, Cocoa, and JavaScript. Best of all, it does not require a remote server for hosting JavaScript, HTML, and CSS files.The second package is PhoneGap, downloaded from http://phonegap.com . PhoneGap exposes fewer native behaviors and is a library rather than a full-fledged framework. As a library, PhoneGap enables you to engineer your application any way you want. It does, however, require a remote server for hosting files.To reduce the learning curve and improve your understanding, good, solid examples are used throughout this book.If you want to create installable iPhone applications, have the web skills required, and if you want to create dynamic, compelling solutions that people will use, this book shows you how using these two packages.Table P--1 compares what each package can do at the time of writing this book. Table P--1: Comparing the Features of QuickConnectiPhone and PhoneGapBehavior/Data AvailableQuickConnectiPhonePhoneGapGPSYesYesAccelerometerYes