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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

Socialization


If we created a high-level feature list of our site, we would see users can login, create recipes, provide comments, add items to their library, and well, that's about it. We can do so much more for our users and with our users than we are currently doing. If we want a truly social site, we need to interact with our users and let them interact with each other.

To that end, your challenge is to engage your users to participate in the BrewHow community using one or more of the following ideas.

Social media support

Obviously, if we're going to socialize BrewHow, we need to add support for existing social media. This includes support for social sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Leveraging these social platforms, we can inform users of activity on our site and let them inform others of their activity.

Recipe additions

To inform your users and potential users of your site about new recipe additions, you can publish recipe additions to Twitter and provide a link back to your...