Book description
Native apps have distinct advantages, but the future belongs to mobile web apps that function on a broad range of smartphones and tablets. Get started with jQuery Mobile, the touch-optimized framework for creating apps that look and behave consistently across many devices. This concise book provides HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript code examples, screen shots, and step-by-step guidance to help you build a complete working app with jQuery Mobile.
If you're already familiar with the jQuery JavaScript library, you can use your existing skills to build cross-platform mobile web apps right now. This book shows you how.
- Get a high-level overview of jQuery Mobile: how it works and how to use it
- Learn about paging and navigation, including dialogs, Ajax content, and history
- Employ jQuery Mobile’s extensive event system to create rich interactions
- Work with toolbars, buttons, lists, forms, and other UI elements
- Create a variety of visual designs with jQuery Mobile’s sophisticated theming system
- Use the jQuery Mobile API for finer control over elements and interactions
- Put everything together and build a mobile app from start to finish
Table of contents
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Preface
- 1. Meet jQuery Mobile
- 2. Application Structure and Navigation
- 3. Page Elements
- Theming jQuery Mobile
- 5. jQuery Mobile API
- 6. jQuery Mobile in Action
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: jQuery Mobile
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2011
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449306687
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