You've started down the path of jQuery Mobile, now begin mastering some of jQuery Mobile's higher level topics. Go beyond jQuery Mobile's documentation and master one of the hottest mobile technologies out there. Previous JavaScript and PHP experience can help you get the most out of this book.
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Mastering jQuery Mobile
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Mastering jQuery Mobile
Table of Contents
Mastering jQuery Mobile
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Getting Started
Overview
Installing XAMPP for Windows
Installing XAMPP for Mac OS X
Installing Aptana Studio
Downloading jQuery Mobile
Using the framework via the CDN
Google's CDN
Microsoft's CDN
jQuery's CDN
Seeing the framework in action
Summary
2. Tools and Testing
Overview
Theming with jQuery ThemeRoller
The basics
Rolling into your own theme
Inspector
Preview
Color
Tools
Creating a theme
Using Aptana Studio 3
The interface
Toolbar
Project Explorer
Console, terminal, and problems
The Editor window
Suggested customizations
Creating a new project
Testing with Screenfly
The interface
More information
Summary
3. Mobile Design
Overview
Responsive web design techniques
Flexible layouts
Images
Media queries
Media queries in action
Feature detection with Modernizr
Getting started
Testing for geolocation
Testing for web storage
Device detection with WURFL
Getting started with the ScientiaMobile cloud
Device detection example – tablet brand
RESS introduction
Getting started with RESS
Summary
4. Call to Action – Our Main Project
Overview
Pages
Panels
Popups
Toolbars
Creating a Home button
Navbars
Summary
5. Navigation
Overview
Links and page navigation
Ajax page linking
Non-Ajax page linking
Multipage document linking
Working with transitions and effects
Navigating with swipe gestures
Working with page loaders
Summary
6. Controls and Widgets
Overview
Widgets
Input with touch
Working with plugins
Accessibility
Summary
7. Working with Data
Overview
Setting up our database
A dab of PHP
Fetching data
Displaying information
Some more PHP
Forms and validation
Inserting data into the database
Summary
8. Finishing Touches
Overview
Creating custom icons
Introduction to Cordova
Configuring Cordova
Step 1 – install XCode
Step 2 – the iOS SDK
Step 3 – install Command Line Tools
Step 4 – install Android SDK
Step 5 – install Apache Cordova
Notifications
Geolocation
Offline storage
Local storage
WebSQL database
Summary
9. The Next Level
Overview
Working with Node.js
Getting started
Creating a starting JavaScript file
Creating our jade views
Creating our routes
Working with RequireJS and Backbone.js
Building a WordPress mobile theme
Getting ready
Creating the style sheet
Creating the header file
Creating the footer file
Creating the function file
Creating the index file
Seeing the theme in action
Summary
10. Mobile Best Practices and Efficiency
Best practices for design and layout
Icon size
Designing with Photoshop
Fluid design
Avoiding fixed footers or headers
Avoiding tables
Dialogs and popups
Forms
Best practices for images
Don't use images at all
Optimizing images
Image sprites
The same image set for retina and non-retina devices
Lazy loading
Best practices for CSS
Customizing the jQuery Mobile download
Removing unused CSS
Combining multiple CSS files
Minify and gzip
jQuery optimizations
Selector caching
Script files at the end or in the head?
Combining the JavaScript files
Using the latest jQuery version
jQuery Mobile custom build
Don't always use jQuery
Minify and gzip
jQuery Mobile optimizations
A multipage template
Prefetching pages
Server-side processing for single-page templates
Pre-enhanced markup
Using data defaults
Number of widgets on a page
Limiting the size of widgets
Performance tools for optimization
The Google Chrome developer tools
Firefox tools and the Firebug plugin
Remote debugging on Android
Remote debugging on iOS
The Google PageSpeed tools
Summary
Index
Mastering jQuery Mobile
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Credits
Authors
Chip Lambert
Shreerang Patwardhan
Reviewers
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About the Authors
Chip Lambert has been creating websites ever since his high school days, when he started with fantasy sport websites. In addition to these 20 years of HTML experience, he has 15 years of experience with PHP and MySQL development. He previously wrote Instant RESS Implementation How-to by Packt Publishing. He is currently a technical analyst for Jenzabar, Inc. You can follow him on Twitter at
@chiplambert or visit his personal blog cum website at http://www.programmerchip.com. Shreerang Patwardhan completed his bachelor's degree in computer engineering, and since then, he has been working on various technologies for the last 4.5 years. He started off by working for a small start-up in Pune, India, on an innovative solar-powered Linux-based handheld device. He has also worked extensively on Google Maps API v3 and worked in the GIS domain for more than a year. He is also one of the technical reviewers for Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook, published by Packt Publishing.
Shreerang is currently employed at a MNC in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA, as a technical consultant and is working on the frontend development of various web applications using different cutting-edge frontend tec...
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