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Dreamweaver CS5.5 Mobile and Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery

By : DAVID KARLINS
Book Image

Dreamweaver CS5.5 Mobile and Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery

By: DAVID KARLINS

Overview of this book

<p>Dreamweaver is the most powerful and industry-leading web design software that utilizes cutting edge web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery for web and mobile development. These technologies have radically reconfigured the process of designing Web content and function in the widest possible range of browsing environments ranging from desktops to mobile devices.For experienced Dreamweaver designers and for designers new to Dreamweaver, this book explains in detail how to take advantage of the new features available in the latest releases of Dreamweaver that add support for HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery. In addition to this, the book also contains detailed step-by-step directions for building mobile apps in Dreamweaver CS5.5.This book starts off by teaching you to create web pages in Dreamweaver using the latest technology and approaches — HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. It demonstrates how to create or customize pages with HTML5 layouts and add multimedia to these pages with HTML5 elements. Then you will learn to add various CSS3 effects to web pages. The book also covers different techniques of adding interactivity to web pages. The later chapters show how to optimize web pages with Dreamweaver for display in various browsing environments. You will also learn to build jQuery-based mobile apps from scratch in the later chapters. By the time you're finished, you'll have learned several techniques to use the latest features of Dreamweaver for web and mobile development.</p>
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Building and emulating apps


Having defined Native Application Settings, you can now package your open (and saved) page as an Android app. Moreover, if you are on a Mac, as an iOS app for either iPhone, iPad, or both.

When you installed the SDKs for Android and/or iOS, you also installed emulation software that replicates how apps will run in the target environments. It is hard to imagine a situation where you will not want to emulate and test your app immediately after generating it. In addition, you can (by choosing Site | Mobile Applications | Build and Emulate).

If you don't want to emulate your app(s), then you can simply choose Site | Mobile Applications | Build, to build, but not emulate the app.

When you select Site | Mobile Applications | Build and Emulate, a submenu provides options for each SDK you installed. If you installed the full set, on a Mac, then that set of options is iPhone, iPad, and Android, as shown in the following screenshot:

Choose one of your available apps. Packaging...