Well, after all that, if you're still thinking of making a native app, I salute you. I admire your spirit and wish you the best of luck... PhoneGap started out as a project to take regular HTML, JavaScript, and CSS and package them nicely into a distributable app for any app store. Eventually, it became part of the Apache Software Foundation. At its core, PhoneGap is Apache Cordova. In addition to simply compiling down your app, you also get access to the following device-level APIs:
Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile - Second Edition
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Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile - Second Edition
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Overview of this book
<p>jQuery Mobile is a mobile-centric web framework developed by the jQuery team. The project focuses on building a framework compatible with the ever-increasing variety of smartphones and tablet computers on the market. The jQuery Mobile framework plays well with other frameworks and platforms, such as PhoneGap and Backbone.</p>
<p>Automate repetitive tasks easily and painlessly with the Grunt task runner, build a fully responsive, gorgeous photography website, and learn how to mix and match jQuery Mobile 1.4.5 into existing websites and how to deploy those changes to content management systems such as WordPress, Drupal, and HarpJS. jQuery Mobile aims to reach everyone, and so does this book. It will enhance your mobile knowledge and help you to create versatile, unique sites quickly and easily.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Prototyping jQuery Mobile
Making a Mom-and-pop Mobile Website
Analytics, Long Forms, and Frontend Validation
QR Code, Geolocation, Google Maps API, and HTML5 Video
Client-side Templating, JSON APIs, and HTML5 Web Storage
Automating Your Workflow with Grunt
Working with HTML5 Audio
Fully Responsive Photography
Integrating jQuery Mobile into Existing Sites
Content Management Systems, Static Site Generators, and jQM
Putting It All Together – Community Radio
Index
Customer Reviews