We started off this chapter by looking at how we can create custom icons for jQuery Mobile, what factors we need to consider while creating these icons, and how to implement them in our jQuery Mobile application. We then shifted our focus to hybrid mobile applications and Apache Cordova for the rest of the chapter. We discussed what hybrid applications are, and we understood the need for these hybrid applications. Apache Cordova is one such framework that provides the interface between web technologies and the native platform technologies. We looked indepth how to set up our Mac system for mobile application development, installing Cordova, iOS and Android SDKs, and the Command Line Tools. We even created a simple Cordova and jQuery Mobile-based application using our Civic Center application code. Toward the end, we discussed a few, most important features of Cordova—notifications, Geolocation, and Offline storage.

In the next chapter, we will take a look at some more fun ways in...