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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

Creating a basic gallery using PhotoSwipe


If you're looking for the single fastest way to create a photo gallery, you're not going to come up with any faster solution than PhotoSwipe (http://www.photoswipe.com/). Weighing in at 82 K, it's not exactly light but it works on pretty much anything that jQuery Mobile supports as either A or B grade. Their site says it works with any WebKit-based browser. That pretty much means iOS, Android, and BlackBerry. The big three are covered. But what about Windows Phone? Good news! It seems to work great there too. Even with JavaScript turned off, PhotoSwipe degrades gracefully to a reasonable page-by-page experience. We could start from scratch and make a pure jQuery Mobile experience but, really… why?

Once again I'm going to dispense with the academically correct behavior of perfectly separating JavaScript and CSS into their own files, and simply build all customized JavaScript into the page itself. It's just easier for the purposes of this book. I'm...