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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

Google Static Maps


In the last chapter, we completely geeked out on how to dynamically link directly into the native GPS systems of iOS and Android. Now, let's consider another approach. The client wanted the opportunity to show the user the street address, a map, and give them another chance to call for delivery. In this case, simply linking to the native GPS systems won't suffice. We can still trigger that if the user clicks on the address or the map, but as a step in between, we can inject a static map from Google (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/staticmaps/).

Is it as whiz-bang as bringing up the app directly to start the turn-by-turn directions? Nope, but it's a heck of a lot faster and may be all that the user needs. They may instantly recognize the location and decide that, yes actually, they would rather call instead. Remember to always approach things from the user's perspective. It's not always about doing the coolest thing we can.

Let's take a look at the drawing...