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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

Summary


Earlier in this book we looked at mobile detection in depth. Now you know all there is to know. Before, we were creating mobile sites from scratch with little care what their desktop experiences were. Now you know how to unify them. The hard part is knowing when to craft mobile experiences from scratch and when to simply mobilize the full-site experience.

It's a pity there's no simple answer to that. But, whether by using JavaScript on page to manipulate it into mobile (the hard way), or by loading in the content via AJAX and picking the pieces you want (the easy way), or by leveraging RESS as we mentioned in the previous chapter, you're ready to handle virtually every possible situation now. The only thing we haven't really tackled yet is integrating with a CMS, which we'll do in the next chapter.