Book description
With the second edition of this popular book, you’ll learn how to build HTML5 and CSS3-based apps that access geolocation, accelerometer, multi-touch screens, offline storage, and other features in today’s smartphones, tablets, and feature phones. The market for mobile apps continues to evolve at a breakneck pace, and this book is the most complete reference available for the mobile web.
Author and mobile development expert Maximiliano Firtman shows you how to develop a standard app core that you can extend to work with specific devices. This updated edition covers many recent advances in mobile development, including responsive web design techniques, offline storage, mobile design patterns, and new mobile browsers, platforms, and hardware APIs.
- Learn the particulars and pitfalls of building mobile websites and apps with HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and responsive techniques
- Create effective user interfaces for touch devices and different resolution displays
- Understand variations among iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Firefox OS, and other mobile platforms
- Bypass the browser to create native web apps, ebooks, and PhoneGap applications
- Build apps for browsers and online retailers such as the App Store, Google Play Store, Windows Store, and App World
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Programming the Mobile Web
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1. The Mobile Jungle
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2. Understanding the Mobile Web
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Myths of the Mobile Web
- It’s Not the Mobile Web; It’s Just the Web!
- You Don’t Need to Do Anything Special About Your Desktop Website
- One Website Should Work for All Devices (Desktop, Mobile, TV)
- Just Create an HTML File with a Width of 320 Pixels, and You Have a Mobile Website
- Native Mobile Applications Will Kill the Mobile Web
- People Are Not Using Their Mobile Browsers
- What Is the Mobile Web?
- Mobile Web Eras
- The Mobile Browsing Experience
- Fragmentation
- Market Statistics
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Myths of the Mobile Web
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3. Browsers and Web Platforms
- Web Platforms That Are Not Browsers
- Mobile Browsers
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4. Tools for Mobile Web Development
- Working with Code
- Testing
- Production Environment
- 5. Architecture and Design
- 6. Markups and Standards
- 7. Basics of Mobile HTML5
- 8. HTML5 Forms
- 9. Feature and Device Detection
- 10. Images and Media
- 11. CSS for Mobile Browsers
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12. JavaScript Mobile
- Coding for Mobile Browsers
- JavaScript Debugging and Profiling
- Battery Consumption
- Background Execution
- Supported Technologies
- Standard JavaScript Behavior
- JavaScript Libraries
- UI Frameworks
- 13. Offline Apps, Storage, and Networks
- 14. Geolocation and Maps
- 15. Device Interaction
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16. Native and Installed Web Apps
- Web App Pros and Cons
- Architecture of a Web App
- Standards
- Official Platforms
- Apache Cordova/PhoneGap Apps
- Distribution
- Full-Screen App Patterns
- 17. Content Delivery
- 18. Debugging and Performance
- 19. Distribution and Social Web 2.0
- A. MIME Types for Mobile Content
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Programming the Mobile Web, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2013
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449334970
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