Kendo Mobile widgets basics

All Kendo Mobile widgets inherit from the base class kendo.mobile.ui.Widget, which is inherited from the base class of all Kendo widgets (both Web and Mobile), kendo.ui.Widget. The complete inheritance chain of the mobile widget class is shown in the following figure:

kendo.Class acts as the base class for most of the Kendo UI objects while the kendo.Observable object contains methods for events. kendo.data.ObservableObject which is the building block of Kendo MVVM, is inherited from kendo.Observable.

Mobile widget base methods

From the inheritance chain, all Kendo Mobile widgets inherit a set of common methods. A thorough understanding of these methods is required while building highly performing, complex mobile apps.

Note

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

bind

The bind() method defined in the kendo.Observable class, attaches a handler to an event. Using this...