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With the second edition of this popular book, youll learn how to build HTML5 and CSS3-based apps that access geolocation, accelerometer, multi-touch screens, offline storage, and other features in todays smartphones, tablets, and feature phones. The market for mobile apps continues to evolve at a breakneck pace, and this book is the most complete reference available for the mobile web.Author and mobile development expert Maximiliano Firtman shows you how to develop a standard app core that you can extend to work with specific devices. This updated edition covers many recent advances in mobile development, including responsive web design techniques, offline storage, mobile design patterns, and new mobile browsers, platforms, and hardware APIs.Learn the particulars and pitfalls of building mobile websites and apps with HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and responsive techniquesCreate effective user interfaces for touch devices and different resolution displaysUnderstand variations among iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Firefox OS, and other mobile platformsBypass the browser to create native web apps, ebooks, and PhoneGap applicationsBuild apps for browsers and online retailers such as the App Store, Google Play Store, Windows Store, and App World

Would you like to build one mobile web application that works on iPad and Kindle Fire as well as iPhone and Android smartphones? This introductory guide to jQuery Mobile shows you how. Through a series of hands-on exercises, youll learn the best ways to use this frameworks many interface components to build customizable, multiplatform apps. You dont need any programming skills or previous experience with jQuery to get started.By the time you finish this book, youll know how to create responsive, Ajax-based interfaces that work on a variety of smartphones and tablets, using jQuery Mobile and semantic HTML5 code.Understand how jQuery Mobile works with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScriptWork with UI components to format content and create forms, lists, navbars, and buttonsCreate dynamic content with JavaScript, Ajax, and the jQuery core frameworkCustomize your entire user interface with themes and CSS3Enable users to install your app from the browser and work with it offlineDistribute through app stores by packaging your creation as a native app

Optimize the performance of your mobile websites and webapps to the extreme. With this hands-on book, veteran mobile and web developer Maximiliano Firtman demonstrates which aspects of your site or app slow down the users experience, and what you can do to achieve lightning-fast performance. Theres much at stake: if you want to boost your apps conversion rate, then tackling performance issues is the best way to start.Learn tools and techniques for working with responsive web design, images, the network layer, and many other ingredientsplus the metrics to check your progress. Ideal for web developers and web designers with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and HTTP experience, this is your guide to superior mobile web performance.Youll dive into:Emulators, simulators, and other tools for measuring performanceBasic web performance concepts, including metrics, charts, and goalsHow to get real data from mobile browsers on your real networksAPIs and specs for measuring, tracking and improving web performanceInsights and tricks for optimizing the first view experienceWays to optimize post-loading experiences and future visitsResponsive web design and its performance challengesTips for extreme performance to achieve best conversion ratesHow to work with web views inside native apps