What this book covers
Chapter 1, Preparing Your First jQuery Mobile Project, works you through your first jQuery Mobile project. It details what must be added to your project's directory and source code.
Chapter 2, Working with jQuery Mobile Pages, continues the work in the previous chapter and introduces the concept of jQuery Mobile pages.
Chapter 3, Enhancing Pages with Headers, Footers, and Toolbars, explains how to enhance your pages with nicely formatted headers and footers.
Chapter 4, Working with Lists, describes how to create jQuery Mobile list views. These are mobile-optimized lists, which are especially great for navigation.
Chapter 5, Getting Practical – Building a Simple Hotel Mobile Website, walks you through creating your first real (albeit simple) jQuery Mobile application.
Chapter 6, Working with Forms and jQuery Mobile, explains the process of using jQuery Mobile-optimized forms. Layout and special form features are covered in detail.
Chapter 7, Creating Grids, Panels, and Other Widgets, walks you through special jQuery Mobile UI items for creating grid-based layouts and other common UI elements.
Chapter 8, Moving Further with the Notekeeper Mobile Application, walks you through the process of creating another website, an HTML5-enhanced note-taking application.
Chapter 9, jQuery Mobile Configuration, Utilities, and JavaScript Methods, describes the various JavaScript-based utilities your code may have need of.
Chapter 10, Working with Events, details the events thrown by various jQuery Mobile-related features, like pages loading and unloading.
Chapter 11, Enhancing jQuery Mobile, demonstrates how to change the default appearance of your jQuery Mobile websites by selecting and creating unique themes.
Chapter 12, Creating Native Applications, takes what you've learned previously and shows how to use the open source PhoneGap project to create real native applications.
Chapter 13, Becoming an Expert – Building an RSS Reader Application, expands upon the previous chapter by creating an application that lets you add and read RSS feeds on mobile devices.
