Chapter 2
Building a Mobile Web App
IN THIS CHAPTER
Building a mobile web app from the ground up
Putting a few jQuery Mobile widgets through their paces
Setting up the app’s structure with HTML
Defining the look of the app with CSS
Making the app do something useful with JavaScript and jQuery
Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them.
— JOSHUA BLOCH
In this chapter, I show you how to build an app that’s designed for the mobile web. In particular, my goal here is to build an app that satisfies three of the most common criteria in mobile web app development. For starters, the app must work well first and foremost on a smartphone. That is, it must be a mobile-first design, as I describe in Book 8, Chapter 1. Second, the app must look at least a little like the so-called native apps that are available in the App Store for iOS and Google Play for Android. Although the code will live on the ...
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