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ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile App Development

By : Andy Meadows
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ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile App Development

By: Andy Meadows

Overview of this book

The ASP.NET MVC 4 framework is used to build scalable web applications with the help of design patterns and .NET Framework. The Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a design principle which separates the components of a web application. This separation helps you to modify, develop, and test different components of a web application. ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile App Development helps you to develop next generation applications, while guiding you to deal with the constraints the mobile web places on application development. By the end of the book, you will be well versed with all the aspects of mobile app development. ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile App Development introduces you to developing mobile web apps using the ASP.NET MVC 4 framework. Walking you through the process of creating a homebrew recipe sharing application, this book teaches you the fundamentals and concepts relevant to developing Internet-ready mobile-enabled web apps. Through the sample application, you will learn how to secure your apps against XSS and CSRF attacks, open up your application to users using third party logins such as Google or Facebook, and how to use Razor, HTML 5, and CSS 3 to create custom views and content targeting mobile devices. Using these custom views, you will then learn how to create web apps with a native mobile device feel using jQuery mobile. By the end of the book, you will be presented with a set of challenges to prove to yourself that you now have the skills to extend your existing web applications to the mobile web or create new mobile web apps.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile App Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
7
Separating Functionality Using Routes and Areas
Index

Chapter 13. Extending Support for the Mobile Web

In the previous chapter, we learned how to design and style our app in such a way that it looked and functioned more or less the same on both a mobile platform and a desktop browser. The responsive design approach may be fine for some apps, but there are some things to be considered before making the final decision of allowing the client to handle all mobile presentations.

Developing a mobile web app requires us to present information to our users quickly and easily with as little overhead as possible. While these are good design goals in general, the usage patterns of mobile users dictate these goals to be the focus of our design efforts. Mobile users want to launch our app, get the information they need, and get out. To accommodate this usage scenario, we may decide we need a substantially different experience than what can be accomplished through client-side presentation determinations through responsive design, media queries, and viewport...