Moving from the Web to mobile devices
Mobile devices are getting more popular nowadays; all the popular websites are preparing their mobile apps or sites in order for people to access them anywhere. Mapping applications have also become more popular since accessing the location of a device with proper APIs was introduced in HTML5.
In this recipe, we will prepare a mapping application that will run on mobile browsers in full screen, and it will zoom to the location of a device with the help of the W3C Geolocation API. This API is also accessible from desktop browsers to get your location.
Getting ready
This code will be run on a mobile device or simulator, so make sure that your code will be accessible from your mobile device or simulator. In this ...
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