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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

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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

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By: Nair
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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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1. Building a Mobile Application Using HTML5
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1. Building a Mobile Application Using HTML5
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Native versus hybrid versus mobile websites
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HTML5 and CSS3
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Kendo UI – building cross-browser apps made easy
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HTML5 mobile web application design guidelines
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2. Building Your First Mobile Application
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2. Building Your First Mobile Application
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Preparing the development machine
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First Kendo UI Mobile application
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A real-world mobile app – Movie Tickets
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Application object
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UI experience across platforms
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3. Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API
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3. Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API
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Creating a Web API service
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Routing
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Parameter binding
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Building a service for the Movie Tickets application
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Content Negotiation
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An Image/PDF file as response
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Securing Web API
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4. Integration Using Framework Elements
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4. Integration Using Framework Elements
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DataSource
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Templates
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MVVM
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Integrating with the Movie Tickets app
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5. Exploring Mobile Widgets
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5. Exploring Mobile Widgets
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Kendo Mobile widgets basics
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Mobile UI widgets
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init and show events of the View widget
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The ListView widget
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The Button widget
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The ButtonGroup widget
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The Switch widget
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The Pane widget
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The PopOver widget
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6. ActionSheet, ModalView, and More Widgets
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6. ActionSheet, ModalView, and More Widgets
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The ActionSheet widget
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The ModalView widget
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The SplitView widget
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The Scroller widget
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The ScrollView widget
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The Touch widget
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The Drawer widget
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7. Movie Tickets Application – Complete Integration
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7. Movie Tickets Application – Complete Integration
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Completing the Web API service
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Frontend views
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The Movie list screen
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Theaters list screen
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Book Tickets screen
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Creating the trailer videos slideshow screen
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Preface

The sudden explosion of mobile devices has made mobile apps development one of the hottest career fields for programmers. The global smartphone/tablet market shared by multiple platforms posed a serious question to mobile application developers and companies, as every mobile platform has different development frameworks and programming languages to develop native applications.

How can we achieve WORA (Write Once, Run Anywhere)?

The obvious solution was HTML5, which is supported by all the latest browsers and has great support for developing rich user interfaces. With the introduction of platforms such as PhoneGap, which exposes the native OS APIs to apps developed in HTML5/JavaScript and CSS3, HTML5-based applications became a double-edged sword. They can be developed using one code base and deployed as a mobile website as well as mobile apps which can be installed on different platforms, as opposed to developing native apps which will result in multiple code bases if multiple platforms are targeted. The availability of a large number of web developers in the industry who understand HTML, JavaScript, and CSS added a boost to the shifting direction of mobile apps development towards HTML5. As the demand increased for more and more mobile applications, both in enterprise and consumer areas, different types of HTML5-based development frameworks surfaced and are still surfacing!

Kendo UI Mobile from Telerik is one of the fastest growing HTML5- and jQuery-based cross-browser mobile applications development frameworks. KendoUI Mobile distinguishes itself from other frameworks by providing adaptive native UI rendering out of the box, without any extra coding, and supporting the Kendo base application development framework. While other mobile development frameworks concentrate on the UI part only, Kendo UI provides support for end-to-end, client-side development.

As the world is getting closer to the HTTP protocol, Web APIs (services which are exposed over plain HTTP) are gaining momentum. ASP.NET Web API helps to build powerful Web APIs, which can be consumed by a rich set of clients and is now the number one choice for .NET developers to build RESTful applications.

This book will introduce you to Kendo UI Mobile and will show you how to build an end-to-end mobile app using ASP.NET Web API as the service backend.

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