Pro iOS Web Design and Development

With Pro iOS Web Design and Development, you’ll design websites and develop web applications for iPhone and iPad using web standards deployed with Apple's Safari browser.

Utilizing the very latest web and mobile technologies and releases, this book shows every web professional how to use HTML5 to do the heavy lifting, CSS3 to create the look and feel, and JavaScript to add program logic to their mobile sites and Web applications.

In addition, you’ll learn how to address the specific features made available through Apple's iOS, especially with regard to designing Web-based touch-screen interfaces.

Pro iOS Web Design and Development will help you deliver rich mobile user experiences without compromise by optimizing your sites for WebKit and Safari, the de facto standard for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

With a background in Psychology (University of Padova) and Computer Science (University of Pisa) Andrea Picchi started designing WebApps for the new Apple device in 2007 when the first iPhone was lunched on the market. After the first release of the Apple SDK in 2008 he started developing Native Apps using Objective-C. In 2011 he started to teach iOS WebApps in a course also available on iTunesU and Mobile Device Development in a first-level Master both organized by the Computer Science Department of the University of Pisa. Today, as Mobile Project Manager, his priority has been to implement a cognitive approach to touch-screen interface design in both mobile and ubiquitous computing contexts. He also continues his work designing and developing for iOS with both the Web model (using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript) and SDK model (using Cocoa-Touch in Objective-C).