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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

Prompting the user to install your app


Remember in Chapter 6, HTML5 Audio, we added the Apple touch icons to make the Lindsey Stirling site look like an app when bookmarked to the home screen? We even went so far as to use a manifest file to locally cache the assets for faster access and offline use.

Now let's take a look at how we can prompt our users to download the Flood.FM app to their home screens. It is very likely that you've seen it before; it's the little bubble that pops up and instructs the user with the steps to install the app.

There are many different projects out there, but the best one that I have seen is a derivative of the one started by Google. Much thanks and respect to Mr. Okamototk on GitHub (https://github.com/okamototk) for taking and improving it. Okamototk evolved the bubble to include several versions of Android, legacy iOS, and even BlackBerry. You can find his original work at https://github.com/okamototk/jqm-mobile-bookmark-bubble. However, unless you can read...