Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by Stark, Jonathan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Dedication A Note Regarding Supplemental Files Preface

Who Should Read This Book What You Need to Use This Book Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Acknowledgments

1. Getting Started

Web Apps Versus Native Apps

What Is a Web App? What Is a Native App? Pros and Cons Which Approach Is Right for You?

Web Programming Crash Course

Intro to HTML Intro to CSS Intro to JavaScript

2. Basic iPhone Styling

First Steps

Preparing a Separate iPhone Stylesheet Controlling the Page Scaling

Adding the iPhone CSS Adding the iPhone Look and Feel Adding Basic Behavior with jQuery What You’ve Learned

3. Advanced iPhone Styling

Adding a Touch of Ajax Traffic Cop Simple Bells and Whistles Roll Your Own Back Button Adding an Icon to the Home Screen Full Screen Mode

Changing the Status Bar Providing a Custom Startup Graphic

What You’ve Learned

4. Animation

With a Little Help from Our Friend Sliding Home Adding the Dates Panel Adding the Date Panel Adding the New Entry Panel Adding the Settings Panel Putting It All Together Customizing jQTouch What You’ve Learned

5. Client-Side Data Storage

localStorage and sessionStorage

Saving User Settings to localStorage Saving the Selected Date to sessionStorage

Client-Side Database

Creating a Database Inserting Rows

Error handling

Selecting Rows and Handling Result Sets Deleting Rows

What You’ve Learned

6. Going Offline

The Basics of the Offline Application Cache Online Whitelist and Fallback Options Creating a Dynamic Manifest File Debugging

The JavaScript Console The Application Cache Database

What You’ve Learned

7. Going Native

Intro to PhoneGap

Using the Screen’s Full Height Customizing the Title and Icon Creating a Startup Screen

Installing Your App on the iPhone Controlling the iPhone with JavaScript

Beep, Vibrate, and Alert Geolocation Accelerometer

What You’ve Learned

8. Submitting Your App to iTunes

Creating an iPhone Distribution Provisioning Profile Installing the iPhone Distribution Provisioning Profile Renaming the Project Prepare the Application Binary Submit Your App While You Wait Further Reading

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