You're reading from Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API Confident of your web application skills but not yet au fait with mobile development? Well this book helps you use the Kendo UI for a painless introduction. Practical tasks and clear instructions make learning a breeze.

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782160922

Length 256 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Kendo UI

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Building a Mobile Application Using HTML5 FREE CHAPTER

2. Building Your First Mobile Application

3. Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API

4. Integration Using Framework Elements

5. Exploring Mobile Widgets

6. ActionSheet, ModalView, and More Widgets

7. Movie Tickets Application – Complete Integration

Index

First Kendo UI Mobile application

The best way to learn any new technology or language is to take a deep dive in to it and get your hands dirty. Since this book is all about more and more code, let's start by creating a simple, single page application.

We will follow a progressive enhancement approach starting with basic elements and adding more complexity to the application and, towards the end, we will create a fully functional deployable application.

Note

Kendo UI Mobile supports only WebKit browsers and so it's important to use Chrome or Safari browsers to run the demo code on your desktop.

Now that you have your IDE and emulator ready, perform the following steps to get your first mobile page running:

Download Kendo UI from the following URL: http://www.kendoui.com/download.aspx. You can either purchase a Kendo UI license or download a free 30-day trial version.
Create a root folder for the application and copy the following mobile-specific files/folders from the Kendo package...

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First Kendo UI Mobile application

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