Category Archives: Mobile Web Tutorials
BuildMobile: Mobile Web Apps: Quick Wins
As we move though the book, we’re going to meet some relatively complex code for recreating native effects and behaviors. Thanks to some (fairly) standard hooks and APIs, however, there are a few tricks we can employ to add a bit of pizzazz to our apps without having to do much work at all. 3.1. Nifty Links For security reasons, mobile web applications are sandboxed away from many built-in features of the mobile device; for example, unlike native apps, they’re not able to retrieve a list of a user’s contacts, or take a photo with the device’s camera (yet). Continue reading
BuildMobile: Mobile Web Apps: Events
This is another excerpt from the upcoming book “Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices” by Earle Castledine , Myles Eftos and Max Wheeler . BuildMobile is exclusively publishing a complete chapter from the book, the chapter on Mobile Web Apps, this is the second section on Events. 2. Events For many users, the most noticeable difference between a website and a native application is the way each one transitions between screens or pages. Continue reading
BuildMobile: Mobile Web Apps: Setting Up Shop
This is an excerpt from the upcoming book “Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices” by Earle Castledine , Myles Eftos and Max Wheeler . Over the coming weeks BuildMobile will exclusively publish a complete chapter from the book, the chapter on Mobile Web Apps. Enjoy. Continue reading