November 2013
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
14h 4m
English
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Introduction
We’re going to learn how to develop mobile web applications. Note the word “web.” This book focuses on web application development for mobile devices like Android, iPod, iPhone, BlackBerry, and tablets. This book is not about native application development requiring the iOS or Android SDK. Nothing we will learn is operating system specific.
Mobile web applications are websites or web applications that leverage the markup of desktop web applications with the functionality of touch-enabled devices. Web applications, whether accessed via a phone, tablet, or laptop, are built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, optionally with image, video, and audio assets and server-side technologies.
By upgrading to using newer HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript features, we can create web applications with the look and feel of native applications. Because mobile web apps are web based, they are compatible with desktops, smartphones, tablets, and any other device that has a modern browser. Because our web applications are web based, we can distribute them directly to our users, with no need to be listed in the Apple App Store or Google Play, with their sometimes complex, expensive, and lengthy approval processes.
This book will teach you what you need to know to create applications that work in a browser using CSS3, HTML5,[1] and JavaScript. This is about technologies you already know: technologies that are portable to most devices. Everything discussed is operating system agnostic.
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