Downloading Kendo UI Mobile (Simple) helps you download the Kendo UI framework and take a look at the various bundles that are packaged in the framework.

Creating a sample application (Simple) gets us started with the Kendo UI Mobile framework and build a sample application using the same. We will also see some of the Mobile UI widgets, such as layouts, views, navbar, and tabstrip in brief.

Using the Application object to configure the application (Intermediate) helps us understand the core component of the framework, that is, the Application object and how it is used to configure the application.

Adding touch events to your mobile application (Intermediate) explains how the framework handles various touch-based events, such as tap, double-tap, hold, and swipe.

Displaying different types of views on a page (Intermediate) describes how to organize the code by specifying views in different documents (remote views) and refer to the them in the main document. Specifying view transitions is a follow up section of this recipe where we will see various transition effects that can be applied when navigating from one view to another.

Adding form elements to a mobile page (Simple) illustrates the various form elements that can be added to the mobile page view.

Creating a list using the ListView widget (Intermediate) explains how to create a list using the mobile framework's ListView widget and perform some actions on the list items.

Showing a list of actions to perform using the ActionSheet widget (Advanced) explains the use of the ActionSheet widget to create a list of actions to be applied on the items in the list.

Displaying a Modal window using the ModalView widget (Advanced) helps us create a modal view window using the Modal View widget.

Creating a TabStrip for a mobile application (Intermediate) revisits the TabStrip widget and creates a tab strip to help you navigate from one view to the other.

Using the ScrollView widget to navigate through the application (Intermediate) helps us create a photo gallery-like application and use the framework's ScrollView widget to scroll through different pictures in the gallery.

Rendering with native look and feel using the adaptive rendering technique (Simple) takes a look at how the mobile framework provides a native look and feel for the application without having the developer to maintain different code base for various platforms.

Handling change in the layout orientation using the automatic layout system (Simple) helps us understand how the framework renders the application when there is a change in the layout orientation.

This book contains various recipes for building mobile applications using the Kendo UI Mobile framework. You are required to download the framework as mentioned in the first recipe. The Kendo UI Mobile framework has a dependency on the jQuery library and should be included before providing a reference to the Kendo UI Mobile framework.

Basic knowledge in building web applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is required. It will be helpful if you have built mobile applications using the mentioned technologies.

This book is for web developers looking forward to building mobile applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It is also for mobile application developers trying to build applications that provide native look and feel on various mobile platforms.

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 are shown as follows: "We can include other contexts through the use of the include directive."

A block of code is set as follows:

<div data-role="tabstrip"
  data-select="selectEvent">
  ....
</div>	

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: "clicking the Next button moves you to the next screen".

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