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It's a fact: if you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have what you need to develop your own iPhone apps. With this special Early Release ebook, you'll learn how to use these open source web technologies to design and build apps for both the iPhone and iPod Touch, on the platform of your choice. Device-agnostic apps are the wave of the future, especially for mobile devices, and this book shows you how to create, test, and convert one product that can be used on several platforms.

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Table of Contents
  1. Chapter 1 Getting Started

    1. Web Apps Versus Native Apps

    2. Web Programming Crash Course

  2. Chapter 2 Basic iPhone Styling

    1. First Steps

    2. Adding the iPhone CSS

    3. Adding the iPhone Look and Feel

    4. Adding Basic Behavior with jQuery

    5. What You’ve Learned

  3. Chapter 3 Advanced iPhone Styling

    1. Adding a Touch of Ajax

    2. Traffic Cop

    3. Simple Bells and Whistles

    4. Roll Your Own Back Button

    5. Adding an Icon to the Home Screen

    6. Full Screen Mode

    7. What You’ve Learned

  4. Chapter 4 Animation

    1. With a Little Help from Our Friend

    2. Sliding Home

    3. Adding the Dates Panel

    4. Adding the Date Panel

    5. Adding the New Entry Panel

    6. Adding the Settings Panel

    7. Putting It All Together

    8. Customizing jQTouch

    9. What You’ve Learned

  5. Chapter 5 Client-Side Data Storage

    1. localStorage and sessionStorage

    2. Client-Side Database

    3. What You’ve Learned

  6. Chapter 6 Going Offline

    1. The Basics of the Offline Application Cache

    2. Online Whitelist and Fallback Options

    3. Creating a Dynamic Manifest File

    4. Debugging

    5. What You’ve Learned

  7. Chapter 7 Going Native

    1. Intro to PhoneGap

    2. Installing Your App on the iPhone

    3. Controlling the iPhone with JavaScript

    4. What You’ve Learned

  8. Chapter 8 Submitting Your App to iTunes

    1. Creating an iPhone Distribution Provisioning Profile

    2. Installing the iPhone Distribution Provisioning Profile

    3. Renaming the Project

    4. Prepare the Application Binary

    5. Submit Your App

    6. While You Wait

    7. Further Reading

  1. Colophon

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Product Details
Title:
Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
By:
Jonathan Stark
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Formats:
  • Print
  • Ebook
  • Safari Books Online
Print Release:
January 2010
Ebook Release:
January 2010
Pages:
192
Print ISBN:
978-0-596-80578-4
| ISBN 10:
0-596-80578-0
Ebook ISBN:
978-1-4493-8004-5
| ISBN 10:
1-4493-8004-2
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About the Author
  1. Jonathan Stark

    Jonathan Stark is a mobile and web application consultant who the Wall Street Journal has called an expert on publishing desktop data to the web. He has written two books on web application programming, is a tech editor for both php|architect and Advisor magazines, and has been quoted in the media on internet and mobile lifestyle trends. Jonathan began his programming career more than 20 years ago on a Tandy TRS-80 and still thinks Zork was a sweet game.

    View Jonathan Stark's full profile page.

Colophon

The animal on the cover of Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is a bluebird (genus Sialia, family Turdidae). Although they are predominantly blue in color, bluebirds can have vivid shades of red dispersed throughout their plumage. Unlike other species of birds, no discernible difference exists in the color patterns of male and female bluebirds.

The birds are territorial by nature and favor open grasslands with scattered trees. Males will identify nest sites among the trees and will try to attract prospective mates by singing, flapping their wings, and then depositing some material within the cavities of those trees. If a female accepts the male's entreaties and one of the nesting sites, she alone will build the nest for the home.

Bluebirds are unique to North America, and bird lovers often attract them to their backyards with feeders full of darkling beetles and mealworms. Bluebirds are also fond of eating raisins soaked in water and bathing in heated birdbaths.

The bird is popularly thought of as a symbol of optimism, although occasionally this symbolism goes into shadowier terrain.

Some dream interpreters say the image of a dead bluebird represents disillusionment, a loss of innocence, and a transition from a younger, more na ve self to a wiser one, while the image of a live bluebird represents spiritual joy and contentedness, or a longing for such a state. Judy Garland's character Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz perhaps exemplifies this longing when she sings about happy little bluebirds in the song "Somewhere over the Rainbow."

The cover image is from Johnson's Natural History. The cover font is Adobe ITC Garamond. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSansMonoCondensed.

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