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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

The resulting first page


Let's have a look at the final product of our work. On the left-side we have the rendered page in portrait view, and on the right we have the landscape view:

It is important to test your designs in both orientations. It can be rather embarrassing when someone comes along later and breaks your work by doing nothing more than turning their phone.

Here is how it looks on the iPad. There is some matter of debate in the industry as to whether or not the iPad counts as mobile since it has enough resolution and a large enough screen to view normal desktop sites, especially if viewed in landscape mode. People who advocate the desktop view are forgetting a very important fact. The iPad and all the other tablets, such as Kindle Fire, Nook Color, and Google Nexus devices, are still touch interfaces. While full sites are still perfectly readable, interaction points may still be tiny targets. If it's a touch interface, your customer will be better served by jQuery Mobile.