Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices
Whip Up Tasty Morsels for a New Generation of Mobile Devices
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Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices is a practical guide for front-end web designers and developers. You’ll discover a fun and fresh approach to mobile web design and development, with enormous scope for opportunity.
Mobile web development is changing rapidly, with a greater emphasis on modern touch-screen smartphones. By following the advice in this book, you can be sure you’re learning the skills youneed to make the most of this new technology.
You’ll learn how to:
- Design effective interfaces for modern devices
- Use HTML5 and CSS3 to build fast, responsive layouts that look great on every device
- Use JavaScript to create a native feel with transitions, touch and swipe events, animations, and more
- Introduces PhoneGap and shows readers how to add native functionally to their web app with ease
- Leverage APIs to take advantage of built-in device functionality
- Use PhoneGap to turn your web app into a native app for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and other platforms—and sell it online
And lots more...
Earle Castledine
Sporting a Masters in Information Technology and a lifetime of experience on the "web of hard knocks", Earle Castledine (Mr Speaker) holds an interest in everything to do with computers. A Senior Systems Analyst and JavaScript expert - he is equally happy in the muddy pits of .NET code as in the fluffy fields of client-side interaction development. Co-creator of the client-side opus TurnTubelis, Earle recognizes the Internet not as a lubricant for social change, but as a vehicle for unleashing frivolous ECMAScript gadgets and interesting time-wasting technologies.
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Myles Eftos
Myles Eftos is a Perth-based web developer that jumped on the Rails express and never looked back. He is the event co-ordinator for the Australian Web Industry Assocation which explains why most of their events are at the pub near his house.Myles Eftos is a Perth-based web developer that jumped on the Rails express and never looked back. He is the event co-ordinator for the Australian Web Industry Assocation which explains why most of their events are at the pub near his house.
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