PhoneGap
Beginner's Guide
Build cross-plaorm mobile applicaons with the PhoneGap
open source development framework
Andrew Lunny
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
PhoneGap
Beginner's Guide
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First published: September 2011
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Credits
Author
Andrew Lunny
Reviewers
Paul McCrodden
Andrey Rebrov
Acquision Editor
Usha Iyer
Development Editor
Meeta Rajani
Technical Editors
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Priyanka Shah
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About the Author
Andrew Lunny is a soware developer based in Vancouver, BC, where he is "Chief N00b"
at Nitobi Soware. He has worked at Nitobi for four years, since a brutal shark aack cut
short his promising career as a surfer. He is the lead developer and all-around fall guy for
the PhoneGap Build web service, a member of the PhoneGap team, and has over 10 years'
experience with PhoneGap and related technologies. He is fond of Ruby, JavaScript, Unix, Git,
and the Internet.
Nitobi is a soware company run by Andre Charland, Dave Johnson, and Brian Leroux. They
specialize in cross-plaorm mobile development and design, and sponsor the PhoneGap
open source project.
In his spare me, Andrew enjoys cycling, running, walking, and jumping. He has two
unrelated degrees from the University of Brish Columbia.
Thanks to Tammy, to my parents, and to Hugo and Natasha for pung
up with me while I procrasnated along. Thanks to Michael Brooks for
running a Windows VM so I did not have to, and thanks to all of my other
co-workers for working on such a great open source project. Thank you to
everyone who follows me on Twier.
Finally, thanks to all my old surng buddies—Skip, Dingo, even Jelly! I'll get
back on the waves with you guys some me, I promise.
