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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 7. Fully Responsive Photography

Our mobile phones are quickly becoming our photo albums. Photographers represent a somewhat untapped market for mobile web development. But if you think about it, this market should have been the first to adapt to the mobile world. With the saturation of smartphones in developed nations, e-mail open rates on smartphones are rapidly approaching 40 percent and may be there by the time you read this (http://www.emailmonday.com/mobile-email-usage-statistics).

When you get that e-mail from your photographer that your photos are ready for viewing, aren't you so excited that you try to view them immediately? Yet there are a LOT of photographers who are masters at their trade that do not have websites that are ready to meet the new mobile demands:

So, here's what we'll cover in this chapter:

  • Creating a basic gallery using PhotoSwipe

  • Supporting the full range of device sizes – responsive web design

  • Text readability in responsive design

  • Sending back only what is needed...