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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

QR codes


We love our smartphones. We love showing off what our smartphones can do. So, when those cryptic squares, as shown in the following figure, started showing up all over the place and befuddling the masses, smartphone users quickly stepped up and started showing people what it's all about in the same overly-enthusiastic manner that we whip them out to answer even the most trivial question heard in passing. And, since it looks like NFC isn't taking off anytime soon, we'd better be familiar with QR codes and how to leverage them.

The data shows that knowledge and usage of QR codes is very high according to surveys:()

  • More than two-thirds of smartphone users have scanned a code

  • More than 70 percent of the users say they'd do it again (especially for a discount)

Wait, what does this have to do with jQuery Mobile? Traffic. Big-time successful traffic. A banner ad is considered successful if only two percent of people click through (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickthrough_rate). QR codes...