Chapter 1, Building a Mobile Application Using HTML5, helps a programmer, who is relatively new to the mobile applications development world, pick up on this journey to build an end-to-end app using Kendo UI Mobile. The chapter details different types of mobile applications such as native, hybrid and mobile websites, an introduction to Kendo UI Mobile, and wraps up with mobile applications design guidelines.

Chapter 2, Building Your First Mobile Application, introduces you to Kendo UI Mobile code in detail, and some screens for the Movie Tickets app will be developed explaining views, layouts, navigation, and more. From this chapter we get our hands dirty and write some really cool code.

Chapter 3, Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API, introduces you to one of the latest additions to Microsoft .NET stack, ASP.NET Web API. We will see routing, parameter binding, content negotiation, token-based authentication, authorization, and write some API methods which will be used for the sample Movie Tickets application. Readers not from the Microsoft background can skip this chapter as well as writing your own services with the same functionality on a platform of your choice or use the service hosted by us on the Internet. The frontend Kendo UI Mobile client application is independent of the backend API technology and will work with any service platform as long as it accepts and returns the same JSON data.

Chapter 4, Integration Using Framework Elements, discusses the common Kendo Framework elements such as DataSource, Templates, and MVVM, which are used in both mobile and web application development. Then we will start backend integration with the Movie Tickets app by building the User Account screen, discussing the Revealing Module Pattern and the application architecture.

Chapter 5, Exploring Mobile Widgets, introduces you to the core of the Kendo UI Mobile Framework, the Mobile widgets. We will dive deep into widgets such as ListView, Button, ButtonGroup, and so on. Using the provided jsFiddle examples, users can play around with the sample code.

Chapter 6, ActionSheet, ModalView, and More Widgets, continues on from the previous chapter, and we will explore more Kendo UI Mobile widgets hands-on.

Chapter 7, Movie Tickets Application – Complete Integration, completes our Movie Tickets sample application by integrating with Kendo UI Mobile widgets, framework elements, and the ASP.NET Web API service.

This book is intended for novice and expert programmers with a web development background who want to build mobile applications or mobile websites for enterprise as well as consumer domains. A basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and jQuery is required to make good use of this book.

The following software are required to make full use of this book:

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Now let's create an action method in MoviesController.cs, which calls the GetMovieList BLL method."

A block of code is set as follows:

public class TrailerBO
{
    public string MovieName { get; set; }
    public string VideoUrl { get; set; }
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

<!-- Movies main view --->
<div data-role="view" id="mt-home-main-view" data-title="Movies"
        data-init="MovieTickets.movieList.initialize"
        data-model="MovieTickets.movieList.viewModel"
        data-layout="mt-main-layout" class="no-backbutton">

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

customEvent fired
customEvent fired with data: Kendo UI is cool!

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: Two buttons, Open Left and Open Right, are placed on the NavBar widget in the layout of the views, which can be clicked to open the Drawer widgets as shown in the following code:

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