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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

Chapter 10. Putting It All Together – Flood.FM

Flood.FM is a unique idea. This is a website where listeners will be greeted with music from local, independent bands across several genres and geographic regions. Building this will take many of the skills we've developed so far, and we'll pepper in some new techniques that can be used in this new service. We've already drawn interfaces on Post-its, and used GPS and client-side templates. We've taken care of regular HTML5 audio and video. We've even started working on multiple mobile sizes and used media queries to rework our layouts into responsive designs.

All of these were simpler implementations meant to get the job done and be as gracefully failing as possible. Let's see what technology and techniques we could bring to bear on this venture.

In this chapter we will cover:

  • A taste of Balsamiq

  • Organizing your code

  • Introduction to the Web Audio API

  • Prompting the user to install your app

  • New device-level hardware access

  • To App or not to App, that is...