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Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile

By : Shane Gliser
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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

Introduction to the Web Audio API


When we touched upon the subject of HTML audio in Chapter 6, HTML5 Audio, we were looking at it from a perspective of progressive enhancement and maximum device support. We took regular pages with native audio controls and used JavaScript to build a new interface to control the audio. We then looked at ways to combine it all and go for the better experience. Now we'll take it a few steps further.

The Web Audio API is a fairly new development and, at the time of writing this, only existed within the mobile space on iOS 6. The Web Audio API is available on the latest versions of desktop Chrome, so you can still do your initial test coding there.

For now, this means no Android, no Windows Phone, and no Blackberry. At least, not yet. However, it's only a matter of time before this is built into other major platforms.

Most of the code for this part of the project and the full explanation of the API can be found at http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation...