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Building an iScroll “Kitchen Sink”

Building an iScroll “Kitchen Sink”

This tutorial will teach you how to build a “Kitchen Sink” application for iScroll 4. Building this application will teach you to implement Pinch and Zoom functionality, Custom Scrollbars, Pull to Refresh actions, and Snap/Snap to Element functionality. Along the way, we’ll also examine the configuration options for iScroll 4.

Introduction to iScroll

Introduction to iScroll

In this tutorial I will teach you how to use iScroll 4 to create a simple mobile web site. The site we create will have a fixed header and a fixed footer with content that can be easily scrolled in-between. As we’ll see, achieving this effect on both Android and iOS isn’t as easy as you might think!

Building a Mobile Web Application with the Google Reader API

Building a Mobile Web Application with the Google Reader API

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.

Mobile Browser Detection

Mobile Browser Detection

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!

Mobile WordPress Theming: Day 4

Mobile WordPress Theming: Day 4

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Mobile WordPress Theming

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!

Browser Storage for HTML5 Apps
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Browser Storage for HTML5 Apps

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.

Mobile WordPress Theming: Day 2

Mobile WordPress Theming: Day 2

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Mobile WordPress Theming

Last week we explored, jQTouch, the framework we would be using to create our mobile wordpress theme. This week, we will pick up where we left off and apply what we learned to create the theme files that we will use to integrate with a WordPress theme. Let’s get to it!

Sencha Touch: The HTML5 Mobile App Framework

Sencha Touch: The HTML5 Mobile App Framework

Developing a mobile application requires many decisions to be made before the first line of code is even written. For instance, should you go with a web app or a native app? If so, should you use a framework? There is no incorrect answer to either of these questions-it depends on the situation. Today we are going to talk about a specific solution to these questions: Sencha Touch.