What this book covers

Chapter 1, Building a Mobile Application Using HTML5, helps a programmer, who is relatively new to the mobile applications development world, pick up on this journey to build an end-to-end app using Kendo UI Mobile. The chapter details different types of mobile applications such as native, hybrid and mobile websites, an introduction to Kendo UI Mobile, and wraps up with mobile applications design guidelines.

Chapter 2, Building Your First Mobile Application, introduces you to Kendo UI Mobile code in detail, and some screens for the Movie Tickets app will be developed explaining views, layouts, navigation, and more. From this chapter we get our hands dirty and write some really cool code.

Chapter 3, Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API, introduces you to one of the latest additions to Microsoft .NET stack, ASP.NET Web API. We will see routing, parameter binding, content negotiation, token-based authentication, authorization, and write some API methods which will be used for the sample Movie Tickets application. Readers not from the Microsoft background can skip this chapter as well as writing your own services with the same functionality on a platform of your choice or use the service hosted by us on the Internet. The frontend Kendo UI Mobile client application is independent of the backend API technology and will work with any service platform as long as it accepts and returns the same JSON data.

Chapter 4, Integration Using Framework Elements, discusses the common Kendo Framework elements such as DataSource, Templates, and MVVM, which are used in both mobile and web application development. Then we will start backend integration with the Movie Tickets app by building the User Account screen, discussing the Revealing Module Pattern and the application architecture.

Chapter 5, Exploring Mobile Widgets, introduces you to the core of the Kendo UI Mobile Framework, the Mobile widgets. We will dive deep into widgets such as ListView, Button, ButtonGroup, and so on. Using the provided jsFiddle examples, users can play around with the sample code.

Chapter 6, ActionSheet, ModalView, and More Widgets, continues on from the previous chapter, and we will explore more Kendo UI Mobile widgets hands-on.

Chapter 7, Movie Tickets Application – Complete Integration, completes our Movie Tickets sample application by integrating with Kendo UI Mobile widgets, framework elements, and the ASP.NET Web API service.