Mobile JavaScript Application Development by Kosmaczewski, Adrian -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Mobile JavaScript Application Development A Note Regarding Supplemental Files Preface

Introduction Fragmentation Growth of the Mobile Web New Paradigms Who Should Read This Book Book Structure What You Need Code of the Book Acknowledgements Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us

1. HTML5 for Mobile Applications

A Bit of History Declarations and Meta Tags

A Minimal HTML5 Document Doctype Charset JavaScript and Stylesheets New and Obsolete Elements

HTML5 Applications

Add Web Apps to Home Screen in iOS Add Web Apps to Home Screen in Android Metadata for HTML5 Applications

HTML5 Application Cache

Manifest Files in Apache Manifest Files with PHP Manifest Files in IIS Manifest Files in .NET Debugging Manifest Files

Testing for HTML5 Features Geolocation Device Orientation Device Motion Network Connectivity Canvas CSS3 Animations and Transitions

Transitions Animations Final Considerations

Client-Side Storage

SQL Storage

Rich Media Tags Conclusion

2. JavaScript Productivity Tips

About JavaScript

Some Coding Tips

Object Literals Single or Double Quotes? JavaScript Base Types Dynamic Overloading of Base Types Functions How to Organize Code in namespaces Create Objects and Arrays the Easy Way Create a Singleton Object Scheduling Function Execution Concatenating Strings Iterating Over Arrays Using toString() for Reflection Easy Code Injection Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript

The self Trick More Ways to Do the Same Thing Another Common Way to Create Custom Types Passing Options

Conclusion

3. jQuery Mobile

Supported Platforms

Compatibility Compatibility with Older Mobile Platforms

Key Features At a Glance To Do List Application

The HTML File Pages Lists Buttons Customizing the Look and Feel Navigation Page Lifecycle Forms Plug-ins Storage

Codiqa ThemeRoller Conclusion

4. Sencha Touch

Introduction and History Characteristics Supported Platforms Key Features

GUI Controls CSS Transitions and Animations Touch Event Management Application Data Support

JavaScript Idioms

Descriptive Dictionary Pattern Object Orientation in Sencha Touch

Creating a To Do List App

Create the HTML Starting the Application Code Transitions Creating Instances Stores, Proxies, Writers, and Readers The Data Model Creating the List Creating a To Do Item Form A Controller to Rule Them All Reacting to Events Navigation

Using Sencha Architect 2 Conclusion

5. PhoneGap

Introduction

Supported Platforms Supported Features Basic Usage

Installing PhoneGap Creating an iOS Application Creating an Android Application

With Eclipse With IntelliJ IDEA

Creating a Windows Phone Application Accessing Native Functionality Plug-ins The JavaScript Bridge

PhoneGap Kitchen Sink The deviceready Event Multitasking Events Network Connectivity Events Battery Events Accelerometer Address Book Audio Recording and Playback Camera Connection Status Filesystem Location and Compass Notifications Storage

Conclusion

6. Debugging and Testing

Your Browser Web Inspector

Inspect the HTML of your app Log Messages in the Console Set Breakpoints in Your JavaScript Code

iWebInspector Adobe Shadow Testing

Jasmine Siesta

Conclusion

7. Conclusion Bibliography

Books Generic References about Mobile Web Technologies Websites about HTML5 Websites about CSS3 Websites about JavaScript Other Frameworks

About the Author Copyright

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