By 2014, there will be more phones browsing the Internet than computers. Will you be building for them?
Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices
Grab hold of the most exciting and important development in computing since the Internet itself: The Mobile Web. It’s a field brimming with possibility where you can bring your amazing ideas to life.
Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices is a practical guide for innovative front-end web designers and developers. You’ll discover a fun and accessible approach to mobile web design and development, with enormous scope for opportunity.
Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices, as the name suggests, is all about designing for mobile devices. It’s about designing for the future. This book will guide you through the process of designing and building a mobile web application from scratch.
You’ll learn how to:
Design effective mobile interfaces
Learn the fundamental rules of great mobile UI design
Create responsive layouts that are smart layouts
Use HTML5 and CSS3 to build fast, responsive layouts that look great on all devices
Capture that “native app” feel
Learn to use JavaScript to create a native app feel with transitions, touch and swipe events, animations, and more
Get the most out of every device
Leverage the power of APIs to take advantage of built-in device functionality
Tame the natives!
Use PhoneGap to generate highly effective native apps for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and other platforms—and sell it online
Why mobile?
It’s tempting to think of the mobile internet as a smaller subset—a sideshow—to the real internet. That is, until you consider the numbers.
2014: The year mobile web usage overtakes the desktop
App downloads are skyrocketing
FIVE BILLION apps were downloaded in 2010—up from 300 million in 2009
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Who is Earle Castledine?
Sporting a Masters in Information Technology and a lifetime of experience on the Web of Hard Knocks, Earle Castledine (aka Mr. Speaker) holds an interest in everything computery. He is currently contributing towards JavaScript’s world domination plans, creating mobile web applications and developing snazzy frameworks in Paris.
Who is Myles Eftos?
Myles Eftos is a Perth-based web developer who feels equally at home building INNER JOINS as calculating the specificity of CSS selectors. He has worked in all the major web languages—his weapon of choice being Ruby on Rails—although he’s found himself doing more and more front-end development in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
Who is Max Wheeler?
An interaction designer, Max Wheeler believes interactive media should function as beautifully as it looks. Residing in Canberra, Australia, Max works with Icelab, a media-agnostic design agency, whose projects include Decaf Sucks and RentMonkey. He’s been known to drop in at Web Directions South to speak about building mobile web applications.
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The Build Mobile Online Course
Get the benefit of online learning with the Learnable Online Course.
It contains:
- 6 Lessons
- 29 Video Tutorials
- Interactive Q&A
Plus downloads of all the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files for each lesson.
Customer Reviews
Live, unmoderated reviews from our customers, typos and all.
So far, the book seems to provide good information. I believe the bulk of the techical aspects come towards the end, of which I have not reached yet.
Eric Cattau, USA 
i am satisfied! I learn from it...Thanks! I hope soon with my next purchase some ebooks have free sample resources (links) for free downloads to make it much comprehensive...
Emmanuel Secretaria, USA
The principles I learned from this book about mobile devices helped me create a site that earned a lot of favor with my boss. Thanks for a well written easy to understand book.
James Yates, USA 