Beginning IOS Application Development with HTML and JavaScript

by Richard Wagner

Web developers with HTML/JS skills will quickly learn to apply them to the iPhone/iPad platformBeginning to intermediate web developers who want to apply their existing HTML/CSS/JS/Ajax skills to the wildly popular iPhone/iPad OS will love this book. In the highly successful Wrox Beginning format, it enables developers who know these core technologies to use what they already know and get up to speed quickly. It introduces iOS development with web technologies, explains how to enable and optimize web sites for the iPhone and iPad, explores user interface design, then moves into animation, special effects, building with web frameworks, and much more.Teaches you to apply your knowledge of HMTL, JavaScript, and related web technologies to the iOS platform and create apps for the iPad and iPhoneExplains how to enable and optimize web sites for the mobile screen, design an effective iPad and iPhone UI, and apply CSSCovers building in interactivity, animation, and special effects, programming the canvas, offline, apps, bandwidth performance and optimization, and web frameworksShows you how to package your app inside a native iOS wrapper (no programming required) so you can submit your apps to the App StoreDevelopers who already know HTML and JavaScript can get up to speed on iOS app development more quickly with the help of this Wrox guide.

480 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Richard Wagner, the former chief architect of NetObjects ScriptBuilder and the primary author of the ECMAScript Components standard, is currently in charge of development tools at Nombas, Inc.