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jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials
This book is for any web developer who is looking to create mobile-optimized websites. Basic knowledge of HTML is required. Minor familiarity with JavaScript would help but is not required. jQuery Mobile is a HTML5-based touch-optimized web framework. jQuery Mobile can be used to build responsive cross-platform websites and apps for a wide range of smartphones, tablets, and desktop devices. The jQuery Mobile framework can be integrated with other mobile app frameworks such as PhoneGap, IBM Worklight, and more. Introduction to jQuery Mobile explains how to add the framework to your HTML pages to create rich, mobile-optimized web pages with minimal effort. You'll learn how to use jQuery Mobile's automatic enhancements and configure the framework for customized, powerful mobile-friendly websites. We then dig into forms, events, and styling. You'll see how jQuery Mobile automatically enhances content, and will find out how to use the JavaScript API to build complex sites. We'll introduce you to how jQuery Mobile can be themed as well looking into how JavaScript can be used for deep sets of customizations. The examples are ready to run and can be used to help kick-start your own site. Along the way, you will leverage all the concepts you learn to build three sample mobile applications. Through a set of easy to follow instructions, we'll show you how to use jQuery Mobile's features one easy-to-use widget at a time. You'll see examples for each feature as well as screenshots to demonstrate what they should look like on a mobile device. You can then take these example files and modify them as you learn to experiment.
246 pages, Paperback
First published May 3, 2012
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January 9, 2014
An excellent way to learn mobile development quickly!
This was the first jQuery mobile book I read and I found it very easy to go through the examples and learn the features of mobile development. The first few chapters show you mobile development techniques such as lists, forms, pages, and content formatting that you reuse in a project in chapter 8. This reinforces the things you learned in chapters 1 through 7.
Then you are shown configuration options, with samples of their use, that you have in jQuery mobile development. jQuery mobile also exposes events and you are shown how to use these with actions like touch, swipe, scroll, and others. You can run the examples provided to see how these work.
A neat feature I liked was how the book shows you how to use Adobe’s PhoneGap Build service to change a jQuery mobile application into native applications for mobile devices. PhoneGap Build service isn’t free but the books shows how developers can use it free.
This was the first jQuery mobile book I read and I found it very easy to go through the examples and learn the features of mobile development. The first few chapters show you mobile development techniques such as lists, forms, pages, and content formatting that you reuse in a project in chapter 8. This reinforces the things you learned in chapters 1 through 7.
Then you are shown configuration options, with samples of their use, that you have in jQuery mobile development. jQuery mobile also exposes events and you are shown how to use these with actions like touch, swipe, scroll, and others. You can run the examples provided to see how these work.
A neat feature I liked was how the book shows you how to use Adobe’s PhoneGap Build service to change a jQuery mobile application into native applications for mobile devices. PhoneGap Build service isn’t free but the books shows how developers can use it free.
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