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Primefaces Theme development

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Primefaces Theme development

Overview of this book

Developing stunning themes for web applications has never been easier! PrimeFaces delivers a powerful set of features that enables JSF developers to create and customize awesome themes on the web. It is very easy to use because it comes as a single JAR file and requires no mandatory XML configuration. With more than 30 out-of-the-box themes, jQuery integration, a mobile UI toolkit, Ajax Push technology, and much more, PrimeFaces takes JSF application development to a whole new level! This book is a hands-on example-rich guide to creating and customizing PrimeFaces themes using available tools. Beginning with creating a JSF project and integrating the PrimeFaces library, this book will introduce you to the features of theme components, how these are structured, and how PrimeFaces uses JQuery UI to apply a theme to your application. You will learn to examine and change the CSS rules and get creative by setting standard icons and adding new icons to them. You will use a combination of JavaScript and CSS to enhance your application with help of scheduler component and go on to adapt and package your custom theme so that it is compatible with the Resource Manager. Finally, you will explore PrimeFaces mobile apps, ensuring themes are compatible with your mobile applications best practices for theme design.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
PrimeFaces Theme Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Considerations for mobile applications


As for best practices in PrimeFaces web applications, there are best practices that you need to follow in mobile applications as well. The real estate is the chief aspect that separates web and mobile applications when designing.

The following are some important notes that you need to remember before you start designing a mobile application:

  • Maintain a good contrast between different swatch colors that are used for each mobile component.

  • Keep the Rich UI forms simple and minimal. It is good practice to design a form with the fewest fields to retrieve data. Usually, these forms should be prefilled to reduce errors that may happen when typing on small touchscreens or virtual keyboards.

For example, use visual calendars instead of typing dates manually in the inputs.

  • Keep simple menus and navigation styles. Desktop sites display big a menu bar at the top of the screen, whereas it eats up space if you use it. In this case, make a drop-down accordion or icon...