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Mastering jQuery Mobile

Mastering jQuery Mobile

By : Chip Lambert, Shreerang Patwardhan
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Mastering jQuery Mobile

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By: Chip Lambert, Shreerang Patwardhan
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Overview of this book

You've started down the path of jQuery Mobile, now begin mastering some of jQuery Mobile's higher level topics. Go beyond jQuery Mobile's documentation and master one of the hottest mobile technologies out there. Previous JavaScript and PHP experience can help you get the most out of this book.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Getting Started
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1. Getting Started
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Overview
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Installing XAMPP for Windows
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Installing XAMPP for Mac OS X
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Installing Aptana Studio
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Downloading jQuery Mobile
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Using the framework via the CDN
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Seeing the framework in action
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Summary
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2. Tools and Testing
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2. Tools and Testing
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Overview
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Theming with jQuery ThemeRoller
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Using Aptana Studio 3
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Testing with Screenfly
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Summary
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3. Mobile Design
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3. Mobile Design
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Overview
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Responsive web design techniques
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Feature detection with Modernizr
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Device detection with WURFL
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RESS introduction
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4. Call to Action – Our Main Project
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4. Call to Action – Our Main Project
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Overview
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Pages
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Panels
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Popups
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Toolbars
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Navbars
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5. Navigation
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5. Navigation
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Links and page navigation
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Working with transitions and effects
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Navigating with swipe gestures
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Working with page loaders
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6. Controls and Widgets
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6. Controls and Widgets
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Widgets
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Input with touch
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Working with plugins
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Accessibility
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7. Working with Data
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7. Working with Data
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Setting up our database
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A dab of PHP
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Fetching data
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Displaying information
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Some more PHP
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Forms and validation
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Inserting data into the database
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8. Finishing Touches
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8. Finishing Touches
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Overview
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Creating custom icons
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Introduction to Cordova
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Configuring Cordova
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Notifications
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Geolocation
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Offline storage
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9. The Next Level
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9. The Next Level
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Working with Node.js
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Working with RequireJS and Backbone.js
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Building a WordPress mobile theme
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10. Mobile Best Practices and Efficiency
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10. Mobile Best Practices and Efficiency
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Best practices for design and layout
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Best practices for images
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Best practices for CSS
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jQuery optimizations
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jQuery Mobile optimizations
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Performance tools for optimization
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Performance tools for optimization

In this chapter, we have so far covered various methods to optimize our code, that will help the page load time and thereby improve the performance of our mobile web application. In this section, we will take a look at some of the tools and utilities that we can use to leverage performance enhancements.

In this section, we will not look at code optimizations, but we will look at how we can leverage the different browser developer tools and some interesting browser plugins that will be of help. We will also consider how we can debug our mobile web code using remote debugging techniques for both Android and iOS devices. Finally, we will take a look at the Google PageSpeed Insights tool. Let us now take the final step towards optimizing our mobile web application.

The Google Chrome developer tools

When working on the development of any web page, the Google Chrome developer tools come in very handy. The developer tools not only allow you to inspect and edit the...

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