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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

PhoneGap versus Apache Cordova


Well, after all that, if you're still thinking of making a native app, I salute you. I admire your spirit and wish you the best of luck.

Note

If you Google "jquery mobile phonegap performance", you're going to find a lot of negative articles. The problems seem legion. Sluggish performance, screen blinking between transitions, and so on. Not that Sencha Touch or any other mobile web frameworks seem to be doing any better. Just be aware that it may not perform as well as it would over the web.

PhoneGap started out as a project to take regular HTML, JS, and CSS and package them nicely into a distributable app for any app store. Eventually, it became part of the Apache Software Foundation. At its core, PhoneGap is Apache Cordova. In fact, if you go the documentation site for Cordova, it's actually still hosted at http://docs.phonegap.com/.

In addition to simply compiling down your app, you also get access to the following device-level APIs.:

  • Accelerometer: Tap into...