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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

QR codes


We love our smartphones. We love showing off what our smartphones can do. So, when those cryptic squares, as shown in the following figure, started showing up all over the place and befuddling the masses, smartphone users quickly stepped up and started showing people what it's all about in the same overly enthusiastic manner that we whip them out to answer even the most trivial question heard in passing. And even though Near Field Communication (NFC) is here now in the form of Apple Pay and Google Wallet, we'd better be familiar with Quick Response Code (QR) codes and how to leverage them.

Let us take a look at the following QR codes image:

The data shows that knowledge and usage of QR codes is very high according to surveys: (http://researchaccess.com/2012/01/new-data-on-qr-code-adoption/)

  • More than two-thirds of smartphone users have scanned a code

  • More than 70 percent of the users say they'd do it again (especially for a discount)

What does this have to do with jQuery Mobile? Traffic...