Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile, 2nd Edition

Create fully responsive and versatile real-world apps for smartphones with jQuery Mobile 1.4.5

About This Book

• Learn how to integrate advanced features such as Geolocation, HTML 5 Video, and the Web Audio API into your web application
• Enhance your efficiency by automating repetitive tasks with the Grunt task runner
• Effortlessly blend and integrate jQuery Mobile with existing WordPress, Drupal, and HarpJS projects

Who This Book Is For

This book assumes a basic level of experience with standard web development. If you’ve used jQuery Mobile before, you’re good to go. Otherwise, you can pick it up along the way.

In Detail

jQuery Mobile is a mobile-centric web framework developed by the jQuery team. The project focuses on building a framework compatible with the ever-increasing variety of smartphones and tablet computers on the market. The jQuery Mobile framework plays well with other frameworks and platforms, such as PhoneGap and Backbone.

Automate repetitive tasks easily and painlessly with the Grunt task runner, build a fully responsive, gorgeous photography website, and learn how to mix and match jQuery Mobile 1.4.5 into existing websites and how to deploy those changes to content management systems such as WordPress, Drupal, and HarpJS. jQuery Mobile aims to reach everyone, and so does this book. It will enhance your mobile knowledge and help you to create versatile, unique sites quickly and easily.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Prototyping jQuery Mobile
Chapter 2. Making a Mom-and-pop Mobile Website
Chapter 3. Analytics, Long Forms, and Frontend Validation
Chapter 4. QR Code, Geolocation, Google Maps API, and HTML5 Video
Chapter 5. Client-side Templating, JSON APIs, and HTML5 Web Storage
Chapter 6. Automating Your Workflow with Grunt
Chapter 7. Working with HTML5 Audio
Chapter 8. Fully Responsive Photography
Chapter 9. Integrating jQuery Mobile into Existing Sites
Chapter 10. Content Management Systems, Static Site Generators, and jQM
Chapter 11. Putting It All Together – Community Radio