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Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile

By : Shane Gliser
Book Image

Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile

By: Shane Gliser

Overview of this book

<p>jQuery Mobile is a touch-optimized web framework (also known as a JavaScript library or a mobile framework) currently being developed by the jQuery project team. The development focuses on creating a framework compatible with a wide variety of smartphones and tablet computers made necessary by the growing but heterogeneous tablet and smartphone market. The jQuery Mobile framework is compatible with other mobile app frameworks and platforms such as PhoneGap, Worklight, and more.<br /><br />Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile reflects the author’s years of experience and exposes every hidden secret which will ease your mobile app development. With just a smattering of design and user experience thrown in, going through this book will allow you to confidently say, “yes, I can do that.”<br /><br />We’ll start out with effective mobile prototyping and then move directly to the core of what every one of your mobile sites will need. Then, we’ll move on to the fancy stuff.<br /><br />After creating some basic business templates and a universal JavaScript, we will move into the more interesting side of mobile development but we always try to keep an eye on progressive enhancement. jQuery Mobile is all about reaching everyone. So is this book.<br /><br />"Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile" will take your basic mobile knowledge and help you make versatile, unique sites quickly and easily.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Requirements


Consider what we've laid out so far. Considering the screens we've drawn and the fact that the owner was able to view and sign-off that this is what he wants, how many more questions are there to ask? Do we really need some Excel document listing out requirements or a 30-page Functional Design Spec (FDS) document to tell you exactly what everything is supposed to be and do? Wouldn't this be enough? Does it have to really be done in Photoshop and produced as a slide deck?

Consider also that what we have done so far has cost us a grand total of five Post-its, one Sharpie, one pencil, and 20 minutes. I believe the case here has been abundantly made that for most sites, this is all you need and you can do it yourself.

Alternates to paper prototyping

If the speed and simplicity of paper prototyping are not enough to convince you to step away from the keyboard, then consider two other options for rapid prototyping:

I personally recommend Balsamiq Mockups. The prototypes it produces have a uniform but hand-drawn look. This will accomplish the same thing as paper prototyping but with more consistent output and easier collaboration across distributed teams. Both of these tools can produce fully-interactive mockups, as well allow the user to actually click through the prototype. Ultimately, paper prototyping is still faster and anyone can contribute.