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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

Going native


Some things a mobile web app just can't do (currently). It is on the occasion when we need the power of the hardware we're running upon, unencumbered by the limitations of the browser, that we must take our apps native.

If you decide to expose BrewHow as a native app you will need to provide access to your platform to remote callers. The most convenient method we have of doing this in ASP.NET MVC 4 is through the Web API.

ASP.NET Web API

The ASP.NET Web API framework makes it simple to build RESTful services and expose those services over HTTP. These services automatically use the same model-binding techniques we learned about earlier in this book and can accept and return requests using XML or JSON.

Given HTTP is ubiquitous and XML and JSON can be parsed on all major mobile platforms, the ASP.NET Web API is ideal for you to expose your platform to outside consumers. You can, of course, choose another path to expose your application for consumption.

Note that you will want to secure...