Preparing the development machine

Setting up the environment for developing Kendo UI Mobile applications is simple and straightforward. Create a base HTML file, add the required .js and .css Kendo UI Mobile file references and you are ready to go. You will only require a text editor to develop Kendo UI applications unless you want to use an HTML IDE such as Visual Studio, Dreamweaver, or Komodo. The only external dependency for Kendo UI is jQuery. Always check the version of jQuery supported by the version of Kendo UI you are using. There is no guarantee that the latest version of jQuery will be supported by the latest version of Kendo. So the safest way is to use the jQuery file available with the Kendo UI package.

You can use any operating system with an HTML5-supported browser to develop Kendo UI Mobile applications. The process that we will follow in this book to develop the mobile app will be to do the development on a desktop machine and run it on an emulator and a mobile device as...