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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

HTML5


HTML5 is a marked switch from its predecessors. Instead of concerning itself with markup identifying the structure of the data, HTML5 is a semantic language focused on markup that provides meaning to the content.

In addition to these semantic tags, HTML5 introduces native support for embedded video and audio, browser-local database storage, a drawing canvas, form controls, WebSockets, and enough other features to fill an entire book—several actually. With new features, HTML5 also reduces the amount of markup we have to write to generate a standards-compliant document.

There's certainly more to HTML5 than we can cover in a single chapter, so we'll focus on the features most important to our application at this time: markup changes, semantic tags, custom data attributes, and the new form controls. We will also introduce the local storage and geolocation services provided by HTML5, as they can be used to greatly enhance the experience of mobile apps.

Markup changes

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