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AngularJS Web Application Development Blueprints

You're reading from   AngularJS Web Application Development Blueprints A practical guide to developing powerful web applications with AngularJS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783285617
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vinci J Rufus Vinci J Rufus
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to AngularJS and the Single Page Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Your Rig 3. Rapid Prototyping with AngularJS 4. Using REST Web Services in Your AngularJS App 5. Facebook Friends' Birthday Reminder App 6. Building an Expense Manager Mobile App 7. Building a CMS on the MEAN Stack 8. Scalable Architecture for Deployments on AWS 9. Building an E-Commerce Store A. AngularJS Resources Index

Making the app feel like a native app


One of the biggest problems with web apps is that as they need to be opened within the default browser, the browser's address bar and the next, previous, and bookmark buttons show up, giving the users a bad user experience.

Thankfully, we can make our app run in a fullscreen mode, but for this, the user needs to add the app to the home screen.

Adding touch icons

When the user adds the app to the home screen, it's important that we have an icon associated with it so that the users can easily identify the application.

This is where the touch icon comes into play.

We first need to create a touch icon for iOS devices using a graphic designing tool such as Photoshop or Gimp. As the iOS devices have different screen sizes and resolutions, we need to create a different icon for each size as per the following table.

All icons need to be saved in the PNG format; their sizes are given in the following table:

Device

Touch Icon Size

iPhone

60 px x 60 px

iPhone Retina...

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