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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

Leveraging the Google Feeds API


So, we've seen how to natively pull in a normal RSS feed, parse, and build out the pages using normal, tedious string concatenation. Now, let's consider an alternative that I had no idea even existed when I first started writing this chapter. Thanks go to Raymond Camden and Andy Matthews for pointing this out in their book, jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials. You need to follow those two on Twitter at @cfjedimaster and @commadelimited.

The Google Feeds API can be fed several options, but at its core, it's a way to specify an RSS or ATOM feed and get back a JSON representation. Naturally, this opens up a few more interesting doors in this chapter. If we can now pull in multiple feeds of different types without having to have any kind of server-side proxy, we can greatly simplify our lives. Client-side templates are back in the picture! No more string concatenation! Since they're all in a unified format (including the publish date), we can pull them all...