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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

Updating your WordPress and Drupal templates


At some point (probably right after the installation), you'll want to update these themes to use the latest versions of the jQuery Mobile library. Some are still using the beta version. The process is actually pretty straightforward. All you have to do is find the header sections of the templates in question, and update the references to the jQuery Mobile CSS, JS, and probably the core jQuery library.

WordPress – Golden Apples jQM Theme

For the WordPress theme by Golden Apples (see https://github.com/goldenapples/jqm-boilerplate), you're going to have to change several files. In the header.php file, find and update the following line:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.0b1/jquery.mobile-1.0b1.min.css" />

In the functions.php file, you'll need to find and update the following lines:

wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery',"http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.4.min.js" );

wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery-mobile',"http://code.jquery.com...