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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

Linking to phones, e-mails, and maps


Mobile browsers have a distinct usability advantage. If we want to link to an e-mail address, the native e-mail client will instantly pop up. The following code is an example:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]" >email me</a>

We can do the same thing with phone numbers and every device will instantly pop up an option to call that number. This is the functionality unmatched on desktops, since most do not have telephony. Here is the href element from the preceding code:

href="tel:+18167816500"

Maps are another specialty for mobile, since virtually all smart phones have built-in GPS software. Here's the href element for the maps link. It's just a standard link to Google Maps:

href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=9771+N+Cedar+Ave,+Kansas+City,+MO+64157"

For iOS 5 and Android, the OS will intercept that click and bring up the location in the native maps app. Version 6 of iOS changes this model, but we can still link to the Google Maps link and...