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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

Driving directions with the Google Maps API


We've done well up to this point on our own. We can tell which theater is closest and how far it is as the crow flies. Sadly though, despite all its promise, the 21st century has not led to us all having private jet packs. Therefore, it is probably best that we not display that distance. Most likely, they're going to drive, ride a bus, bike, or walk.

Let's leverage the Google Maps API (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/). If your site is going to have a lot of API hits, you might have to pay for the business pricing. For us, while we are in development, there's no need.

Here's a look at what we're about to build.

First we'll need another page to show a map and directions, as well as the script that will actually load the maps from Google Maps API. Let's use the following code:

<div id="directions" data-role="page">
  <div data-role="header">
    <h3>Directions</h3>
  </div>     
  <div data...