In this three part tutorial series, our main goal is to describe how jQuery Mobile can be used to develop a native Android application. First, we will develop a stand-alone, sample web application that will browse articles from Yahoo! News using jQuery Mobile. Then we will convert that web application into a native Android application with minimal effort.
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jQuery Mobile is a relatively new mobile web framework, with its first release made in October 2010. The framework has many interesting features to support development of web based mobile applications. In this tutorial, we will focus on some basic elements of jQuery Mobile: page structure, forms and Ajax form submission. The tutorial is based on version 1.0 alpha release 2 of the jQuery Mobile framework.
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This tutorial will teach you how to build a mobile news feed reader web application using the Google Reader API. This application will be very “feature focused”, but the foundation you learn here should be enough for you to expand upon in your own apps. As of the time of this writing, there isn’t an official Google Reader API, so this tutorial will make use of the unofficial API commonly used when building Google Reader applications.
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When creating mobile web apps like our wordpress theme series, it is important to be able to detect a mobile browser and serve the appropriate mobile version. Many readers requested information on how to do this in the comments, so here it is! First, we will cover a wordpress solution, then a PHP solution, and then a popular existing solution. By the end of this tutorial, you will be exposed to the whole spectrum of options and well equipped to handle this scenario!
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Welcome to the final installment of our Mobile WordPress Theming series! In this tutorial, we will be loading posts and pages dynamically into our mobile web application. By the end, we will have a usable mobile WordPress theme! Let’s jump right in!
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For years one of the main advantages of writing desktop applications has been the easy access to local storage on the client machine. Web developers have put up with the inability to store and retrieve data from the client’s machine for a long time, but it looks like that may change soon. You might even think it already has after reading this article. Yes, I’m going to discuss the origins of persisting data on clients machine and then introduce you to the Web Storage standard.
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Welcome to the latest installment of Mobile WordPress Theming. Last week, we created the HTML version of the WordPress theme that we will be creating in this tutorial. By the end of this tutorial, we will have a basic WordPress theme that can be applied to any existing WordPress site. Next week, we will package and finish it. Let’s get right down to it!
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In my last article introducing Sencha Touch, we discussed approaching mobile users through web apps instead of native apps and the distinct advantages and disadvantages of this approach. This is nice, but what about if you just want to push out simple content to users on their mobile devices and don’t need the sophistication of a regular “app” at all? This is where creating a mobile website comes in. In this series, we will create a powerful mobile WordPress theme that anyone can apply to their blog to make their site easily accessible to mobile users.
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At the heart of every location-based application is positioning and geolocation. In this tutorial you will learn the geolocation capabilities of HTML5 and the basic principles needed to take advantage of them in your next HTML5 app!
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