Programming the Mobile Web 2e

Maximiliano Firtman

ISBN 10: 1449334970 / ISBN 13: 9781449334970

Published by O Reilly Media, 2013

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With the second edition of this popular book, you'll learn how to build HTML5 and CSS3-based apps that access geolocation, accelerometer, multi-touch screens, offline storage, and other features in today's smartphones, tablets, and feature phones. Num Pages: 774 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: UMW. Category: (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 231 x 197 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1288. . 2013. Second Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Programming the Mobile Web 2e
• Publisher: O Reilly Media
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1449334970
• ISBN 13: 9781449334970
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

With the second edition of this popular book, you’ll learn how to build HTML5 and CSS3-based apps that access geolocation, accelerometer, multi-touch screens, offline storage, and other features in today’s smartphones, tablets, and feature phones. The market for mobile apps continues to evolve at a breakneck pace, and this book is the most complete reference available for the mobile web.

Author and mobile development expert Maximiliano Firtman shows you how to develop a standard app core that you can extend to work with specific devices. This updated edition covers many recent advances in mobile development, including responsive web design techniques, offline storage, mobile design patterns, and new mobile browsers, platforms, and hardware APIs.

• Learn the particulars and pitfalls of building mobile websites and apps with HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and responsive techniques
• Create effective user interfaces for touch devices and different resolution displays
• Understand variations among iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Firefox OS, and other mobile platforms
• Bypass the browser to create native web apps, ebooks, and PhoneGap applications
• Build apps for browsers and online retailers such as the App Store, Google Play Store, Windows Store, and App World

About the Author

Maximiliano Firtman, @firt, is a developer focused on mobile and HTML5 development. He is a trainer in mobile technologies and founder of ITMaster Professional Training. He is the author of many books, including Programming the Mobile Web (O'Reilly). He has spoken at international conferences such as OSCON, Velocity, Breaking Development, GOTO Europe, Campus Party, QCon, and Adobe en Vivo.

He has been an Adobe Community Professional since 2011 and a Nokia Developer Champion since 2006, and he has developed many mobile-related projects, such as MobileHTML5.org, MobileTinyURL.com, and iWebInspector.com. He maintains a mobile web development blog at MobileXweb.com.

He is an expert in native and HTML5 web development, including iOS, Android, PhoneGap, and jQuery technologies.