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Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile

By : Shane Gliser
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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


Earlier in this book we looked at mobile detection in depth. Now you know all there is to know. Before, we were creating mobile sites from scratch with little care what their desktop experiences were. Now you know how to unify them. The hard part is knowing when to craft mobile experiences from scratch and when to simply mobilize the full-site experience. It's a pity there's no simple answer to that. But, whether by using JavaScript on page to manipulate it into mobile (the hard way) or by AJAXing in the content and picking the pieces you want (the easy way) or by leveraging responsive design + server side components (RESS) as we mentioned in the previous chapter, you're ready to handle virtually every possible situation now. The only thing we haven't really tackled yet is integrating with a CMS which we'll do in the next chapter.