Phonegap Diaries: Intro to 24 Challenge

Introduction

In order to get started in mobile development I appropriated a popular math game called "24" (I call mine "Twentyfour Challenge". Google play. iTunes store) and turned it into a native Android application (this was very unoriginal as there are many versions of this game out there).

Doing this required climbing a steep learning curve as there is a vast, new API to learn.  But at least I could program in Java using the familiar Eclipse IDE.  I released my app to Google Play store last December (2012).

But wouldn't it be great to re-write Twentyfour Challenge as a portable HTML5 / javascript application?  I decided to do this in the summer (2013).  I also decided to write a summary of my experience doing this re-write.  I call these the "PhoneGap Diaries." 

Here are the topics covered:

•         Phonegap Diaries: Intro to 24 Challenge
•         Phonegap Diaries: Tools
•         Phonegap Diaries: Process
•         Phonegap Diaries: Technologies
•         Phonegap Diaries: Summary