You're reading from PhoneGap 4 Mobile Application Development Cookbook Build real-world hybrid mobile applications using the robust PhoneGap development platform

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783287949

Length 356 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

PhoneGap

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Welcome to PhoneGap 3

2. Movement and Location – Using the Accelerometer and Geolocation Sensors FREE CHAPTER

3. Filesystems, Storage, and Local Databases

4. Working with Audio, Images, and Video

5. Working with Your Contacts List

6. Hooking into Native Events

7. Working with XUI

8. Working with the Ionic Framework

9. Ionic Framework Development

10. User Interface Development

11. Extending PhoneGap with Plugins

12. Development Tools and Testing

Index

Detecting device movement using the accelerometer

The accelerometer captures device motion in the x, y, and z axis direction. The accelerometer is a motion sensor that detects change (delta) in movement relative to the orientation of the current device.

How to do it…

We will use the accelerometer functionality from the plugins to monitor the feedback from the device:

First, create a new PhoneGap project named accelerometer. Open Terminal or Command Prompt and run the following command:
```
phonegap create accelerometer com.myapp.accelerometer accelerometer
```
Add the device's platform. You can choose to use Android, iOS, or both:
```
cordova platform add ios
cordova platform add android
```
Add the device-motion plugin by running the following command:
```
phonegap plugin add org.apache.cordova.device-motion
```

Open www/index.html and clean up unnecessary elements; so you have the following:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8" />
        &lt...