With Beginning Android Web Apps Development, you'll learn how to apply
HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Ajax and other Web standards for use on the
Android mobile platform, by building a variety of fun and visually
stimulating games and other web applications! If you've done some basic
web development, and you want to build your skills to create exceptional
web apps, you'll find everything you seek in the discussions and
examples in this book.
Each application you'll build in Beginning Android Web Application
Development will show you solutions that you can apply to many of your
own projects. Each example shares techniques and coding solutions that
will inspire your own work. You'll learn how to tie your Android apps
into Twitter through two apps that you'll build: Who's that Tweet?!, a
quiz game based on celebrity accounts, and I Love Ham, a coding
investigation into search phrases and rhyming.
Your Android web app development skills will then proceed in another
direction, as you discover the power of HTML5 in two game apps:
Scavenger Hunt, which introduces you to the HTML5 GPS location API, and
Spies!, a location-based application that shows you how to use CSS3,
Ajax, and HTML5 within multi-player environments. You'll also create an
Android web application which checks the arrival time of buses and
light-rails through the use of Portland, Oregon's open Tri-Met data API!
This app is a great template for other apps you may want to build in the
future, and showcases the important techniques for incorporating
cloud-based apps into web games. After reading Beginning Android Web
Apps Development, you will have built real apps and developed along the
way the skills you'll need to create highly interactive, professional
web applications... and, your journey will be engaging and enjoyable!
