jQuery Mobile: Up and Running

Paperback: 270 pages
Publisher: O&#8217;Reilly Media (February 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1449397654
ISBN-13: 978-1449397654

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Would you like to build one mobile web application that works on iPad and Kindle Fire as well as iPhone and Android smartphones? This introductory guide to jQuery Mobile shows you how. Through a series of hands-on exercises, you’ll learn the best ways to use this framework’s many interface components to build customizable, multiplatform apps. You don’t need any programming skills or previous experience with jQuery to get started.

By the time you finish this book, you’ll know how to create responsive, Ajax-based interfaces that work on a variety of smartphones and tablets, using jQuery Mobile and semantic HTML5 code.

Understand how jQuery Mobile works with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
Work with UI components to format content and create forms, lists, navbars, and buttons
Create dynamic content with JavaScript, Ajax, and the jQuery core framework
Customize your entire user interface with themes and CSS3
Enable users to install your app from the browser and work with it offline
Distribute through app stores by packaging your creation as a native app

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Mobile Platform
Chapter 2. Starting with the Framework
Chapter 3. UI Components
Chapter 4. Lists
Chapter 5. Form Components
Chapter 6. The Framework and JavaScript
Chapter 7. Creating Themes
Chapter 8. Installation and Offline Access
Chapter 9. A Complete Webapp
Chapter 10. Extending the Framework
Chapter 11. Packaging for Stores