Jan 10, 2012 |
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Book Description
You need to build an app, and you need it to run everywhere. And you need it now! jQuery Mobile gives you the ability to write once and run everywhere using jQuery and jQuery UI. Pro jQuery Mobile will teach you how to create themable, responsive, native-looking applications for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, and more.
- Discover what sets jQuery Mobile apart from other mobile web development platforms
- Walk through practical examples of jQuery Mobile features, including design elements and event handling
- Dig into the jQuery API, integrate web services, and learn how to publish to app stores with Phone Gap
jQuery Mobile is a framework for delivering cross-platform mobile web applications with a unified interface. jQuery Mobile combines responsive layouts with progressive enhancement to render the best possible user experience from a single code base. With Pro jQuery Mobile, you’ll be creating amazing mobile apps in no time.
What you’ll learn
- Unique features of jQuery Mobile
- jQuery Mobile core features, including page structure, navigation, and form elements
- The entire jQuery Mobile API, including data attributes, methods, and events
- How to apply jQuery Mobile to specific cases, including iOS and Android apps
- How to publish your apps to app stores via PhoneGap Download Now »
Nov 24, 2011 |
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Book Description
Are you interested in creating BlackBerry apps using the latest BlackBerry 7 and BlackBerry Java Plug-in for Eclipse? Then this is the book for you. Beginning BlackBerry 7 Development offers a hands-on approach to learning how to build and deploy sophisticated BlackBerry apps using the latest tools and techniques available.
Assuming only some programming background in Java or a similar language, this book starts with the basics, offering step-by-step tutorials that take you through downloading and installing the BlackBerry development environment, creating your first apps, and exploring the BlackBerry APIs. You’ll be introduced to the latest features available in the latest BlackBerry 7 using BlackBerry Java Plug-in for Eclipse, including BlackBerry Application Platform Services, techniques for using multimedia with the BlackBerry, and tools for increasing app performance.
To round out the complete development process, you’ll also discover the different ways you can package and distribute your apps, from deploying apps on your own website to listing your apps for sale in the BlackBerry App World.
What you’ll learn
- How to obtain and set up the tools you’ll need to develop BlackBerry applications
- How to develop Java-based BlackBerry applications
- How to integrate BlackBerry Application Platform Services into your app
- Advanced techniques for user interface design Download Now »
Nov 22, 2011 |
9,291 views |
Book Description
Create cross-platform mobile apps without having to learn a new language!
PhoneGap is an open source solution, ideal for web developers wanting to build cross-platform mobile apps without having to learn a new language. Using HTML, CSS, and Javascript, PhoneGap allows you to jump into the mobile world and develop apps for iPhone, Android, and the BlackBerry.
- Walks you through installing the development software
- Covers the basics of each of PhoneGap’s functional units
- Introduces various projects you can build with the framework
- Discusses using HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Explores the features accelerameter and compass
- Examines media, storage and files, camera, contacts, geolocation, and more
Within Beginning PhoneGap, each new chapter builds on the lessons taught in the previous so that by the end of the book, you can have mobile apps up and running!
From the Back Cover
Now web developers can create cross-platform mobile apps in a language they already know
Are you a web developer eager to move into the mobile space, but don’t have the time to learn a new language? Then PhoneGap is what you’ve been waiting for. PhoneGap is a free and open source framework that allows you to create cross-platform applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Beginning PhoneGap shows you how to make it happen. Download Now »
Nov 17, 2011 |
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Book Description
Easily create cross-platform, standalone native applications for mobile devices using AIR
AIR allows you to develop the rich, creative, interactive media experiences for mobile applications. This easy-to-follow guide covers everything you need to know to create rich mobile applications using Adobe Flash Builder. Packed with examples, this book shows you how to build applications for mobile devices using a combination of ActionScript, the Flex framework and AIR. You’ll discover how these applications are able to run across multiple mobile and tablet devices, targeting Google Android, Apple iOS, and BlackBerry platforms. Plus, hands-on instructions detail how to leverage the unique hardware and software features that are available to each various device and platform.
- Serves an ideal starting point for learning to create rich, interactive applications for mobile devices
- Includes hands-on examples that demonstrate how to best use the variety of hardware and software features
- Escorts you through mobile app concept to completion with sample code and step-by-step instructions
- Discusses such topics as enabling multitouch; developing for multiple screen sizes; maintaining app data; and much more
Start building standalone mobile applications today with Beginning Flash, Flex, and AIR Development for Mobile Devices. Download Now »
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Book Description
Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices is a practical guide for front-end web designers and developers. You’ll discover a fun and fresh approach to mobile web design and development, with enormous scope for opportunity.
Mobile web development is changing rapidly, with a greater emphasis on modern touch-screen smartphones. By following the advice in this book, you can be sure you’re learning the skills you need to make the most of this new technology.
You’ll learn how to:
- Design effective interfaces for modern devices
- Use HTML5 and CSS3 to build fast, responsive layouts that look great on every device
- Use JavaScript to create a native feel with transitions, touch and swipe events, animations, and more
- Introduces PhoneGap and shows readers how to add native functionally to their web app with ease
- Leverage APIs to take advantage of built-in device functionality
- Use PhoneGap to turn your web app into a native app for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and other platforms—and sell it online
And lots more…
About the Author
Sporting a Masters in Information Technology and a lifetime of experience on the Web of Hard Knocks, Earle Castledine (aka Mr Speaker) holds an interest in everything computery. Download Now »
Jul 19, 2011 |
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Book Description
The BlackBerry smartphone is today’s #1 mobile platform for the enterprise and also a huge hit with consumers. Until now, it’s been difficult for programmers to find everything they need to begin developing new applications for BlackBerry devices. BlackBerry Development Fundamentals is the solution: the first single-source guide to all aspects of development for the BlackBerry platform.
This book thoroughly reviews the BlackBerry’s unique capabilities and limitations, helps you optimize your upfront design choices, and covers native rich-client applications and Web-based mobile applications for both business and consumer environments. In addition, it is an excellent study guide for the BlackBerry Certified Application Developer exam (BCX-810).
Coverage includes
- The “hows,” “whys,” and best practices of BlackBerry development
- Planning for and managing the BlackBerry platform’s restrictions
- Selecting the correct development platform for your BlackBerry applications
- Describing the different paths any application can take to get to the data it needs
- Explaining the capabilities provided by the BlackBerry Mobile Data System (MDS)
- Pushing application data to both enterprise and consumer BlackBerry devices using MDS, Web Signals, and the BlackBerry Push APIs
- Dealing with both the special capabilities and limitations of the BlackBerry browser Download Now »
