Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development in 24 Hours (Paperback)

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to build rich, robust mobile apps that run on smartphones, tablets, and other devices and interact with users in powerful new ways. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master leading-edge practical skills you can use whether you’re developing for the iPad/iPhone or Android. 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 rock-solid foundation for real-world success!

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common HTML5 mobile development tasks.

Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.

By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.

Did you Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.

Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.

Learn how to…

• Work with the new 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

在僅僅24個小時或更少的學習時間內，透過這本書的直觀、逐步教學方式，您將學會如何建立豐富、強大的行動應用程式，這些應用程式可以在智慧型手機、平板電腦和其他設備上運行，並以全新強大的方式與使用者互動。無論您是為iPad/iPhone還是Android開發，這些實用技能都能讓您掌握領先的開發能力。您將發現如何快速建立新的行動應用程式，升級舊有應用程式，提供尖端的媒體內容，利用從地理定位到語義網的高級功能，甚至簡化複雜的後端開發。每個課程都建立在您已經學到的基礎上，為您在現實世界中取得成功打下堅實的基礎！

逐步指導仔細引導您完成最常見的HTML5行動開發任務。

每章結束時的測驗和練習可以幫助您測試自己的知識。

By the Way註解提供與討論相關的有趣資訊。

Did you Know?提示提供建議或展示執行任務的更簡單方法。

Watch Out!警告提醒您可能遇到的問題，並給出避免問題的建議。

學習如何...

- 使用對行動開發最有價值的新HTML5標籤
- 快速開始使用當今瀏覽器已支援的HTML5功能
- 檢測行動設備和HTML5支援，並升級網站以支援它們
- 為行動頁面設計和建立更高效、可用性更強的頁面
- 使用jQuery Mobile快速創建行動應用程式
- 利用HTML5的突破性繪圖和排版功能
- 將媒體內容高效地整合到您的應用程式中
- 透過HTML5的分段和語義元素增加意義
- 比以往更容易實現拖放功能
- 建立離線應用程式和使用本地儲存的其他應用程式
- 透過GeoLocation API檢測和處理位置數據
- 使用微格式和微數據使網頁更友好於電腦
- 通過WebSockets、Web Workers和File APIs添加強大的後端功能
- 通過History API改進使用者導航