jQuery Mobile Cookbook

by Chetan K Jain

Overview

jQuery Mobile is an award winning, HTML5/CSS3 based open source cross-platform UI framework. It offers a very cool and highly customizable UX. It is built on the popular jQuery library and uses declarative coding making it easy to use and learn. It is the market leader today considering the numerous browsers and platforms that it supports."jQuery Mobile Cookbook" presents over a hundred recipes written in a simple and easy manner. You can quickly learn and start writing code immediately. Advanced topics such as using scripts to manipulate, customize, and extend the framework are also covered. These tips address your common everyday problems. The book is very handy for both beginner and experienced jQuery Mobile developers.You start by developing simple apps using various controls and learn to customize them. Later you explore using advanced aspects like configurations, events, and methods.Develop single and multi-page applications. Use caching to boost performance. Use custom transitions, icon sprites, styles, and themes. Learn advanced features like configurations, events, and methods. Explore future trends by using HTML5 new features and semantics with jQuery Mobile."jQuery Mobile Cookbook" is an easy read and is packed with practical tips and screenshots.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849517232
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	11/14/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Chetan K Jain loves to code and has been writing code for over 16 years. He is a Senior Architect and has worked on mobile technologies for over four years at Nokia. He has since moved out to work as a freelance consultant. Chetan has significant experience writing cross-platform mobile apps using jQuery Mobile, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and Nodejs, and has also worked extensively on Qt. Prior to mobile technologies, he worked in Java and was also certified as a MCSD and MCSE in his early days. Chetan is an active contributor to open source development and tries to help jQuery Mobile development whenever he can. He regularly participates in developer forums and was earlier a top ranked member and a 'mad scientist' in the Nokia Qt Developer Forum. Chetan was born in Bangalore and lives there with his wife Shwetha and son Tanmay. The only time he ventured to live away from the city was when he worked for about four and a half years in the USA. His adventure didn't end there. He did a solo cross country drive across North America in 2003, driving alone for over 8000+ miles in 16 days to experience and live life as he calls it. Chetan has contributed and published over 15 books to Gutenberg as a volunteer. He has also published four books on Jaina Literature and History written by his mother Saraswathamma. He is a voracious reader and his other interests include photography, playing the keyboard, movies, and travel.