Chapter 12. Developing Mobile Web Applications

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Client Code

• The User-Agent

• Server Code

• Security and Authentication

• Error Handling

• Designing Web Content for Android

• Performance Tips for Mobile Content

If you do a Google search on “What is a web application?” you will find more than 7,000 web pages that attempt to answer the question. The most common answer is that (1) it is an application that is accessed via a web browser over a network. The beauty of this definition is that, if designed carefully and targeted to the least common denominator of all web browsers, the application can run anywhere a browser is run, requiring no software modifications on the client side. Using this definition, a simple forms-based ...

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