Jonathan Stark

Building iPhone Apps with Html, Css, and JavaScript

Making App Store Apps Without Objective-C or Cocoa

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Produktbeschreibung

It's a fact: if you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the tools you need to develop your own iPhone apps. With this book, you'll learn how to use these open source web technologies to design and build apps for both the iPhone and iPod Touch, on the platform of your choice without using Objective-C, Xcode, or Interface Builder.

What are the advantages? Device-agnostic apps are the wave of the future, especially for mobile devices, and this book shows you how to create one product that can be used on several platforms. You'll get guidelines for quickly converting your product into a native iPhone app, using the free PhoneGap framework. And you'll learn why releasing your product as a web app first helps you find, fix, and test bugs much faster than if you went straight to the App Store with a product built with Apple's tools.

- Build iPhone apps using tools you already know how to use

- Compare the pros and cons of web apps and native iPhone apps

- Learn how to make an existing website look and behave like an iPhone app

- Add native-looking animations to your web app using jQTouch

- Take advantage of client-side data storage with apps that run even when the iPhone is offline

- Hook into advanced iPhone features (accelerometer, geolocation, vibration, and sound) with JavaScript

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Now web designers and developers can join the iPhone app party without having to learn Cocoa's Objective-C programming language. It's true: You can write iPhone apps quickly and efficiently using your existing skills with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This book shows you how with lots of detailed examples, step-by-step instructions, and hands-on exercises. Learn how to build iPhone apps with standard web tools Refactor a traditional website into an iPhone web app Hook into advanced iPhone features (e.g. accelerometer, geolocation, vibration, and sound) with JavaScript Do most of your development with the operating system of your choice

Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 177mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9780596805784
• ISBN-10: 0596805780
• Artikelnr.: 26985641

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Stark is a mobile and web application consultant who the Wall Street Journal has called an expert on publishing desktop data to the web. He has written two books on web application programming, is a tech editor for both phparchitect and Advisor magazines, and has been quoted in the media on internet and mobile lifestyle trends. Jonathan began his programming career more than 20 years ago on a Tandy TRS-80 and still thinks Zork was a sweet game.

Inhaltsangabe

Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Getting Started Web App vs. Native App Web Programming Crash Course Chapter 2 Basic iPhone Styling First Steps Adding the iPhone CSS Adding the iPhone Look and Feel Adding Basic Behavior with jQuery What You ve Learned Chapter 3 Advanced iPhone Styling Adding a Touch of Ajax Traffic Cop Simple Bells and Whistles Roll Your Own Back Button Adding an Icon to the Home Screen Full Screen Mode What You ve Learned Chapter 4 Animation With a Little Help from Our Friend Sliding Home Adding the Dates Panel Adding the Date Panel Adding the New Entry Panel Adding the Settings Panel Putting It All Together Customizing jQTouch What You ve Learned Chapter 5 Client-Side Data Storage LocalStorage and SessionStorage Client-Side Database What You ve Learned Chapter 6 Going Offline The Basics of the Offline Application Cache Online Whitelist and Fallback Options Creating a Dynamic Manifest File Debugging What You ve Learned Chapter 7 Going Native Intro to PhoneGap Installing Your App on iPhone Controlling iPhone with JavaScript What You ve Learned Chapter 8 App Store Title

Rezensionen

"Jonathan Stark bietet ein praxisnahes Werk an, dass neben all seinen hilfreichen Tipps und anhand vieler anschaulicher Beispiele durch eine frische und teilweise humorvolle Art sehr angenehm zu lesen ist. Die Zielgruppe sind Einsteiger, die tiefer in die Thematik der web-basierten iPhone-Entwicklung einsteigen möchten und bereits über Grundlagen in HTML, CSS, JavaScript und ggf. jQuery verfügen." -- dot.NET Magazin 9/2010