jQuery Mobile: Up and Running

Overview

Would you like to build one mobile web application that works on iPad and Kindle Fire as well as iPhone and Android smartphones? This introductory guide to jQuery Mobile shows you how. Through a series of hands-on exercises, you’ll learn the best ways to use this framework’s many interface components to build customizable, multiplatform apps. You don’t need any programming skills or previous experience with jQuery to get started.

By the time you finish this book, you’ll know how to create responsive, Ajax-based interfaces that work on a variety of smartphones and tablets, using jQuery Mobile and semantic HTML5 code.

1.    Understand how jQuery Mobile works with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript

2.    Work with UI components to format content and create forms, lists, navbars, and buttons

3.    Create dynamic content with JavaScript, Ajax, and the jQuery core framework

4.    Customize your entire user interface with themes and CSS3

5.    Enable users to install your app from the browser and work with it offline

Distribute through app stores by packaging your creation as a native app

Title	jQuery Mobile: Up and Running
Author	Maximiliano Firtman
Publisher	O'Reilly Media
Publishing Date	2012
Pages	288
Price	Rs. 375/-
Price @ Flipkart	Rs. 375/-

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Mobile Platform

Why Do We Need jQuery Mobile?

What Is jQuery Mobile?

The Mobile and Tablet World

HTML5 and CSS3

Main Features

Testing Webapps

Chapter 2 Starting with the Framework

Preparing the Document

Adobe Dreamweaver Support

Architecture

Navigation

Dialogs

Integrating with the Phone

Chapter 3 UI Components

Toolbars

Formatting Content

Columns

Buttons

Chapter 4 Lists

Full-Page Lists Versus Inset Lists

Visual Separators

Interactive Rows

Using Images

Aside Content

Title and Description

Using Count Bubbles

Filtering Data with Search

List Views Cheat Sheet

Chapter 5 Form Components

Form Action

Form Elements

Chapter 6 The Framework and JavaScript

Document Events

Configuration

Utilities

Custom Transitions

Dynamic Content

Creating Grids

Changing Page Contents

Event Handling

Chapter 7 Creating Themes

ThemeRoller

Fireworks Theme Editor

Editing Themes

Custom Transitions

Chapter 8 Installation and Offline Access

Package Definition

Icon Installation

Full Screen

Mixing It All Together

Storing Offline Data

Chapter 9 A Complete Webapp

Webapp Structure

Chapter 10 Extending the Framework

Creating a Plug-in

Notable Plug-ins

Plug-ins for Tablets

Compatible Plug-ins

Chapter 11 Packaging for Stores

Store Distribution

Custom Distribution

Preparing the Package

Packaging with PhoneGap