Mobile Web Development
I wrote an article titled What’s New in jQuery Mobile 1.2.0? that showed the new features and the changes made by the jQuery Mobile team in version 1.2.0 of their popular mobile development... Read More
Typography is one of the most important aspects of responsive web design, and optimizing your fonts for mobile devices is an absolute necessity if you want your content to be palatable across all... Read More
Some readers may wonder, not unreasonably, why there’s been such a rapidly growing interest in “Responsive Web Design” (RWD) and why it has become more and more essential for... Read More
JavaScript libraries like jQuery Mobile can help you develop mobile apps rapidly, but your results often have a generic feel that leaves your apps resembling many other jQuery Mobile apps. If you... Read More
In the previous article in this series, I described the last remaining utility function, as well as those that set up our application. In this final part of the series, you’ll see how to create... Read More
In the previous part of our series, I explained how to use the Google Maps API to display stored locations on a map and to trace a route from the user’s current position to his car. I also... Read More
In the previous part of our series, you’ve seen how to configure “Where I parked my car” to adjust the theme, modify the pages’ transitions, and use the option to display text... Read More
In the previous part of the series, I showed you the code of all the HTML pages of “Where I parked my car”. However, so far they are useless because we’ve not written the business... Read More
In the first article of this series, I showed the features of the mobile app “Where I parked my car” and outlined an overview of the technologies that will be used for its implementation.... Read More
You don’t need separate platform-specific technologies to develop powerful, useful apps. You’d be surprised with what you can build with HTML5 and popular JavaScript libraries. This... Read More
In my last article, I explained what’s new in jQuery Mobile 1.2.0, the latest release of the popular mobile development framework. The article describes the new devices compatibility, the popup... Read More
A highly anticipated new version of jQuery Mobile was recently released. Let’s have a look at what’s been added and changed in this 1.2.0 version. Throughout the code samples,... Read More
The day after Halloween, we all received a great gift from Adobe — the release of the latest version of Cordova, better known as PhoneGap. The new 2.2.0 version introduced several interesting... Read More
Many mobile apps could benefit from working without an Internet connection. Here, we take a look at how offline capabilities affect the decision of developing native apps vs. mobile web based apps.... Read More
