Beginning iOS Application Development with HTML and JavaScript

Web developers with HTML/JS skills will quickly learn to apply them to the iPhone/iPad platformBeginning to intermediate web developers who want to apply their existing HTML/CSS/JS/Ajax skills to the wildly popular iPhone/iPad OS will love this book. In the highly successful Wrox Beginning format, it enables developers who know these core technologies to use what they already know and get up to speed quickly. It introduces iOS development with web technologies, explains how to enable and optimize web sites for the iPhone and iPad, explores user interface design, then moves into animation, special effects, building with web frameworks, and much more.Teaches you to apply your knowledge of HMTL, JavaScript, and related web technologies to the iOS platform and create apps for the iPad and iPhoneExplains how to enable and optimize web sites for the mobile screen, design an effective iPad and iPhone UI, and apply CSSCovers building in interactivity, animation, and special effects, programming the canvas, offline, apps, bandwidth performance and optimization, and web frameworksShows you how to package your app inside a native iOS wrapper (no programming required) so you can submit your apps to the App Store Developers who already know HTML and JavaScript can get up to speed on iOS app development more quickly with the help of this Wrox guide. Transfer your existing skills to the iOS platform. Are you already proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Ajax and eager to create apps that can be rapidly deployed across mobile devises--but you don't want to have to learn a whole new technology in order to do so? Then this is the book for you. Written by an experienced web designer and developer, this helpful guide enables you to use what you already know and gets you up to speed quickly with applying your existing skills to the mobile platform so that you can start developing apps for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad today. Web developers with HTML/JS skills will quickly learn to apply them to the iPhone/iPad platformBeginning to intermediate web developers who want to apply their existing HTML/CSS/JS/Ajax skills to the wildly popular iPhone/iPad OS will love this book. In the highly successful Wrox Beginning format, it enables developers who know these core technologies to use what they already know and get up to speed quickly. It introduces iOS development with web technologies, explains how to enable and optimize web sites for the iPhone and iPad, explores user interface design, then moves into animation, special effects, building with web frameworks, and much more. Teaches you to apply your knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, and related web technologies to the iOS platform and create apps for the iPad and iPhoneExplains how to enable and optimize web sites for the mobile screen, design an effective iPad and iPhone UI, and apply CSSCovers building in interactivity, animation, and special effects, programming the canvas, offline, apps, bandwidth performance and optimization, and web frameworksShows you how to package your app inside a native iOS wrapper (no programming required) so you can submit your apps to the App StoreDevelopers who already know HTML and JavaScript can get up to speed on iOS app development more quickly with the help of this Wrox guide

This book covers the various aspects of developing web-based applications for iOS. Over the past four years, the iPhone and iPad have been amazingly successful. Because of this success, application developers are entering a world of sophisticated, multifunctional mobile applications. Now mobile web-based applications can bring together web apps, native apps, multimedia video and audio, and the mobile device itself. By using this book you will learn how to create a mobile application from beginning to end, utilizing open source frameworks to speed up development times, emulate the look and feel of built-in Apple applications, capture finger touch interactions, and optimize applications for Wi-Fi and wireless networks.

The book introduces you to the web application platform for iOS. It also guides you through the process of building new applications from scratch as well as migrating existing web applications to this new mobile platform. By doing this, the book helps readers design a user interface that is optimized for iOS touch-screen displays and integrate their applications with iPhone services, including Phone, Mail, Google Maps, and GPS.

This book is aimed at beginning and intermediate web developers who want to learn how to build new applications for iOS or migrate existing web apps to this platform. In general, you will find it helpful if you have a working knowledge of these technologies:

• HTML/XHTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• Ajax