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Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile - Second Edition

By : Andy Matthews, Shane Gliser
Book Image

Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile - Second Edition

By: Andy Matthews, Shane Gliser

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
Index

Chapter 2. Making a Mom-and-pop Mobile Website

The previous chapter taught us some valuable lessons about paper prototyping and gave us a solid ground to start our development with. Now, we will take those drawings and turn them into an actual jQuery Mobile (jQM) site that acts responsively and looks unique.

In this chapter, we cover:

  • Writing a new jQuery Mobile boilerplate

  • A new way of thinking about full site links

  • Breaking the boilerplate into a configurable server-side PHP template

  • Using alternate icon sets

  • Custom fonts

  • Performance optimization tips

  • Mobile detection and redirection techniques