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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

Summary


Forms are nothing new. We've had them since the dawn of the Internet. They are not glamorous, but they can be elegant, effective, and responsive. jQuery Mobile takes you a long way toward effective forms in touch-based interfaces. Now you can take it farther with multi-page forms and client-side validation. Do not underestimate the power of these two techniques when paired together. When the client is able to do virtually everything they need, without having to go back to the server, the experience is automatically improved. Mixing in the ability to watch how users are surfing your site, their favorite content, and their fallout points will help you make an even more compelling experience. Just remember, when you're thinking about analytics, it is not the absolute numbers that are important. It's all about the trends; with these basics done, let's get to some more interesting tech. In the next chapter, we'll start looking at geolocation and more.