When working on complex mobile applications, you will have multiple layouts and views in the page. In this case, the initial view to render within a selected layout would not be possible to determine. However, options can be passed to the kendo.mobile.application function to set the layout and the initial view to use when the application is initialized.

<div
  data-role="layout"
  data-id="layout1">

  <!-- header here -->

  <footer data-role="footer">

    <div data-role="tabstrip">

      <a data-icon="about">About</a>

      <a data-icon="settings">Settings</a>

    </div>

  </footer>
</div>