- Copyright 2014
- Edition: 1st
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- ISBN-10: 0-672-33626-X
- ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33626-3
Build HTML5 Mobile Applications in 24 Hours or Less!
With this fully interactive, downloadable Learning Kit – featuring step-by-step text and video instruction – you can teach yourself to build rich, robust HTML5-based mobile apps that run on iOS or Android smartphones and tablets.
Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Web Application Development in 24 Hours has a straightforward, step-by-step approach that helps you master leading-edge practical skills. And with this exclusive downloadable Learning Kit edition of the book you can:
- Read the complete text of the book on your own computer or mobile device (any HTML5 web browser will work)
- Watch the author show you how to perform step-by-step tasks in more than 50 short, easy-to-follow videos
- Test your understanding of the material with fully interactive online quizzes at the end of each chapter
Three sample lessons are available for FREE online exactly as they appear in the full Learning Kit download – with complete video walkthroughs and interactive quizzes (HTML5 browser required). Try them out today!
About This Learning Kit: A Learning Kit is a self-paced electronic course that integrates text, graphics, video screencasts, and interactive quizzes into one complete tutorial. It is delivered in a 1.5-GB zip archive file that will be available for download from your InformIT Account page after purchase. Once installed on your computer, you can view the Learning Kit in any web browser that fully supports HTML5, including the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer. Supported platforms are:
- Windows XP (Firefox only)
- Windows 7 or 8 (IE10, Chrome, or Firefox)
- Mac OS X (Safari, Firefox, or Chrome)
- Linux (Chrome or Firefox)
- iOS 6 or iOS 7 (Mobile Safari)
Discover how to quickly build new mobile apps and upgrade older apps, provide cutting-edge media content, leverage advanced features ranging from geolocation to the semantic web, and even simplify complex back-end development.
Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a wide array of skills and a rock-solid foundation for real-world success:
- Work with the HTML5 tags most valuable for mobile development
- Get started fast with HTML5 features already supported by today’s browsers
- Detect mobile devices and HTML5 support and upgrade sites to support them
- Style and build more efficient, usable mobile pages
- Use jQuery Mobile to quickly create mobile apps
- Leverage HTML5’s breakthrough drawing and typography features
- Efficiently integrate media content into your apps
- Add meaning with HTML5 sectioning and semantic elements
- Implement drag-and-drop more easily than ever
- Build offline applications and other apps that use local storage
- Detect and work with location data via the GeoLocation API
- Use microformats and microdata to make web pages friendlier to computers
- Add powerful back-end functionality with WebSockets, Web Workers, and File APIs
- Improve user navigation with the History API
Contents
Three sample lessons (Hours 1, 2, and 3) are available for viewing online, exactly as they appear in the full Learning Kit with complete video walkthroughs and interactive quizzes (HTML5 browser required). Just click on a link below.
Introduction
PART I: BUILDING WEB PAGES WITH THE OPEN WEB STANDARD
Hour 1: Improving Mobile Web Application Development with HTML5
Hour 2: New HTML5 Tags and Attributes with Mobile Development
Hour 3: Styling Mobile Pages with CSS3
Hour 4: Detecting Mobile Devices and HTML5 Support
Hour 5: JavaScript and HTML5 Web Applications
Hour 6: Building a Mobile Web Application
Hour 7: Upgrading a Site to HTML5
Hour 8: Converting Web Apps to Mobile
PART II: LEARNING HTML5 ESSENTIALS
Hour 9: Adding Meaning with HTML5 Sectioning and Semantic
Elements
Hour 10: Drawing with the HTML5 Canvas Element
Hour 11: Fonts and Typography in HTML5
Hour 12: Audio and Video in HTML5
Hour 13: HTML5 Forms
Hour 14: Editing Content and User Interaction with HTML5
Hour 15: Microformats and Microdata
Hour 16: Working with HTML5 Drag-and-Drop Functionality
Hour 17: HTML5 Links
PART III: HTML5 FOR MOBILE AND WEB APPLICATIONS
Hour 18: Web Application APIs and Datasets
Hour 19: WebSockets, Web Workers, and Files
Hour 20: Offline Web Applications
Hour 21: Web Storage in HTML5
Hour 22: Controlling the Browser History with the History
API
Hour 23: Adding Location Detection with Geolocation
Hour 24: Converting HTML5 Apps to Native Apps
PART IV: APPENDIXES
Appendix A: HTML Elements and Attributes
Appendix B: HTML5 and Mobile Application Resources
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