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Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API

Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API

By : Nair
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Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API

Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API

4.4 (12)
By: Nair

Overview of this book

With the world becoming more mobile, there is a growing need for mobile websites and applications. Building these from scratch is not a simple process. Kendo UI Mobile makes building websites and applications easier than ever before. Build applications for phones and tablets in no time at all and provide your user with a native look and feel.Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API helps you to understand the concept of building mobile applications using HTML5 based frameworks, specifically Kendo UI Mobile. It teaches you in a simple step-by-step manner how to create a service backend layer using ASP.NET Web API and how to integrate it with your front end mobile application, which is the missing piece of the puzzle for most developers who are new to mobile applications development. Learn everything from the basics of HTML5 to design and development of a mobile application using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API. Integrate them in the right way using extensible and maintainable JavaScript code.Starting with the basics of the Kendo UI platform, learn how to build a real world mobile application from scratch. You will explore the Kendo UI framework elements and integrate the sample mobile application with the ASP.NET Web API service. One of the most important things that you will learn from this book is how to organize your code using the JavaScript Revealing Module Pattern. You will also take a journey through Kendo UI Mobile widgets with lots of code samples hosted in jsFiddle. At the end of this book, you will complete the integration of the sample application and master fixing real world problems utilizing your newly acquired professional techniques that will save you time and effort.Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API will help you improve your mobile application development skills using hands-on examples, and will help you address the common problems faced by beginners as well as experienced web programmers. 
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UI experience across platforms

We've built the skeleton for our sample application and saw how the app looks on iOS. In Chapter 1, Building a Mobile Application Using HTML5, we've discussed Kendo's design philosophy of platform-specific look and feel. Now let's explore the Android experience and a Flat UI theme which provides a unified look and feel on all mobile platforms.

Let's experience the Android look and feel by changing the device to Nexus One in the Ripple Emulator:

UI experience across platforms

As you can see, the look and feel of the app changed automatically when the app ran on an Android platform. Conforming to Android app design philosophy, the TabStrip widget is moved to the top and the Back button is displayed at the bottom.

This automatic look and feel is achieved by attaching platform-specific CSS classes to the rendered HTML. When the app is viewed in the Android platform, Android-specific CSS classes such as km-android are injected in to the <body> tag so that the elements...

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