What people are saying about Building iPhone Apps w/ HTML, CSS, and
JavaScript
"The future of mobile development is clearly web technologies like CSS,
HTML and JavaScript. Jonathan Stark shows you how to leverage your
existing web development skills to build native iPhone applications
using these technologies."
--John Allsopp, author and founder of Web Directions
"Jonathan's book is the most comprehensive documentation available for
developing web applications for mobile Safari. Not just great tech
coverage, this book is an easy read of purely fascinating mobile tidbits
in a fun colloquial style. Must have for all PhoneGap developers."
-- Brian LeRoux, Nitobi Software
It's a fact: if you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the
tools you need to develop your own iPhone apps. With this book, you'll
learn how to use these open source web technologies to design and build
apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch on the platform of your
choice-without using Objective-C or Cocoa.
Device-agnostic mobile apps are the wave of the future, and this book
shows you how to create one product for several platforms. You'll find
guidelines for converting your product into a native iPhone app using
the free PhoneGap framework. And you'll learn why releasing your product
as a web app first helps you find, fix, and test bugs much faster than
if you went straight to the App Store with a product built with Apple's
tools.
- Build iPhone apps with tools you already know how to use
- Learn how to make an existing website look and behave like an iPhone
app
- Add native-looking animations to your web app using jQTouch
- Take advantage of client-side data storage with apps that run even
when the iPhone is offline
- Hook into advanced iPhone features -- including the accelerometer,
geolocation, and vibration -- with JavaScript
- Submit your applications to the App Store with Xcode
This book received valuable community input through O'Reilly's Open
Feedback Publishing System (OFPS).
