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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

Adobe Experience Manager


Adobe has always been a leader in the web space. Their premier corporate CMS is called Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) (see http://www.adobe.com/solutions/web-experience-management.html). I'm not going to get into how to install, configure, or code for AEM. That is a subject for several training manuals the size of this book. Trust me. I am only mentioning this so you know that there is at least one major CMS player that comes with complete jQuery Mobile examples.

The training materials are centered on a fictional site called Geometrixx.

The beauty of the AEM system is that it uses a Java JCR container (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_repository_API_for_Java) to store content. This means that you can create mobile sites that automatically pull content from desktop pages simply by referencing the JCR content nodes of the desktop pages or by allowing users to type directly into an interface that looks like a mobile screen.

The mobile example of Geometrixx is coded...