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Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API

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.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782160922
Length 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

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

UI experience across platforms

We've built the skeleton for our sample application and saw how the app looks on iOS. In Chapter 1, Building a Mobile Application Using HTML5, we've discussed Kendo's design philosophy of platform-specific look and feel. Now let's explore the Android experience and a Flat UI theme which provides a unified look and feel on all mobile platforms.

Let's experience the Android look and feel by changing the device to Nexus One in the Ripple Emulator:

UI experience across platforms

As you can see, the look and feel of the app changed automatically when the app ran on an Android platform. Conforming to Android app design philosophy, the TabStrip widget is moved to the top and the Back button is displayed at the bottom.

This automatic look and feel is achieved by attaching platform-specific CSS classes to the rendered HTML. When the app is viewed in the Android platform, Android-specific CSS classes such as km-android are injected in to the <body> tag so that the elements...

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