jQuery Mobile Cookbook

Over 80 recipes with examples and practical tips to help you quickly learn and develop cross-platform applications with jQuery Mobile book and ebook.

Key Features

• Create applications that use custom animations and use various techniques to improve application performance
• Use and customize the various controls such as toolbars, buttons, and lists with custom icons, icon sprites, styles, and themes
• Write simple but powerful scripts to manipulate the various configurations and work with the events, methods, and utilities which are provided by the framework

Book Description

What you will learn

• Create single-page and multi-page applications that use custom CSS and JavaScript transitions; improve performance using Prefetch, DOM-Cache, and Application Cache
• Use fixed and full screen toolbars, navbars, and buttons; customize them with your own icons, icon sprites, and styles
• Use XML and JSON data in your application; format page content using layout grids, collapsibles, and nested accordions
• Build accessible forms; use form controls like flip switches, sliders, and select menus; validate and submit forms using Ajax
• Use various types of lists such as Inset, Numbered, Nested, Read-only, and Split Button lists; manipulate lists using JavaScript
• Use JavaScript to dynamically create and initialize controls, load and change pages, handle events; tweak and customize the framework configurations
• Explore HTML5 semantics and features such as Local Storage, Session Storage, History, 2D Canvas, 3D, Geolocation, Web Workers, Audio, and Video
• Use custom fonts and backgrounds, upgrade themes, override existing themes; generate and share new themes using the Theme Roller tool

Who this book is for

If you are a beginner with jQuery/JavaScript skills, this book offers you numerous examples to get you started.If you are a seasoned developer, this book lets you explore jQuery Mobile in greater depth.