
Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
by Stark, Jonathan-
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Summary
Author Biography
Jonathan Stark is a web developer and leading expert on publishing desktop data to the web. Past clients include Staples, Turner Broadcasting, and the PGA Tour. Jonathan is the author of the book Web Publishing with PHP and FileMaker 9, is a regular speaker at the FileMaker Developer Conference, and is a tech editor for php|architect and FileMaker Advisor magazines.
Table of Contents
Preface | p. xi |
Getting Started | p. 1 |
Web Apps Versus Native Apps? | p. 1 |
What Is a Web App? | p. 1 |
What Is a Native App? | p. 1 |
Pros and Cons | p. 2 |
Which Approach Is Right for You? | p. 2 |
Web Programming Crash Course | p. 3 |
Intro to HTML | p. 3 |
Intro to CSS | p. 6 |
Intro to JavaScript | p. 9 |
Basic iPhone Styling | p. 13 |
First Steps | p. 14 |
Preparing a Separate iPhone Stylesheet | p. 16 |
Controlling the Page Scaling | p. 17 |
Adding the iPhone CSS | p. 19 |
Adding the iPhone Look and Feel | p. 21 |
Adding Basic Behavior with jQuery | p. 23 |
What You've Learned | p. 28 |
Advanced iPhone Styling | p. 29 |
Adding a Touch of Ajax | p. 29 |
Traffic Cop | p. 29 |
Simple Bells and Whistles | p. 34 |
Roll Your Own Back Button | p. 40 |
Adding an Icon to the Home Screen | p. 46 |
Full Screen Mode | p. 48 |
Changing the Status Bar | p. 48 |
Providing a Custom Startup Graphic | p. 49 |
What You've Learned | p. 50 |
Animation | p. 51 |
With a Little Help from Our Friend | p. 51 |
Sliding Home | p. 51 |
Adding the Dates Panel | p. 55 |
Adding the Date Panel | p. 56 |
Adding the New Entry Panel | p. 58 |
Adding the Settings Panel | p. 60 |
Putting It All Together | p. 62 |
Customizing jQ Touch | p. 64 |
What You've Learned | p. 67 |
Client-Side Data Storage | p. 69 |
localStorage and sessionStorage | p. 69 |
Saving User Settings to localStorage | p. 70 |
Saving the Selected Date to sessionStorage | p. 73 |
Client-Side Database | p. 74 |
Creating a Database | p. 75 |
Inserting Rows | p. 78 |
Selecting Rows and Handling Result Sets | p. 82 |
Deleting Rows | p. 86 |
What You've Learned | p. 89 |
Going Offline | p. 91 |
The Basics of the Offline Application Cache | p. 91 |
Online Whitelist and Fallback Options | p. 94 |
Creating a Dynamic Manifest File | p. 98 |
Debugging | p. 102 |
The JavaScript Console | p. 103 |
The Application Cache Database | p. 107 |
What You've Learned | p. 113 |
Going Native | p. 115 |
Intro to PhoneGap | p. 115 |
Using the Screen's Full Height | p. 121 |
Customizing the Title and Icon | p. 123 |
Creating a Startup Screen | p. 130 |
Installing Your App on the iPhone | p. 131 |
Controlling the iPhone with JavaScript | p. 136 |
Beep, Vibrate, and Alert | p. 136 |
Geolocacion | p. 140 |
Accelerometer | p. 146 |
What You've Learned | p. 150 |
Submitting Your App to iTunes | p. 151 |
Creating an iPhone Distribution Provisioning Profile | p. 151 |
Installing the iPhone Distribution Provisioning Profile | p. 153 |
Renaming the Project | p. 155 |
Prepare the Application Binary | p. 156 |
Submit Your App | p. 157 |
While You Wait | p. 159 |
Further Reading | p. 159 |
Index | p. 161 |
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