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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

Programmatically changing pages


There are two ways to programmatically change pages in jQuery Mobile, and the differences are subtle:

  • Call $.mobile.changePage and pass in a selector to the ID of the page you want to go to. This works the same way with URLs. Either way will yield the same results as if the user had clicked on a link. The page is inserted into the browser's history as one might expect. Following is the example code:

    $.mobile.changePage("#"+data.pageId);
  • Create a jQuery object by selecting the page you want to change to first. Then, pass that jQuery object into the $.mobile.changePage function. The result is that the page is shown but the URL never updates, and, thus, it does not exist in the browser's history. This might be useful in situations where, if the user refreshes the page, you would want them to start the process over at the first screen. It prevents deep linking through bookmarks into other pages in a multipage layout. Following is an example:

    var $newPage = $("#"...