Building Android Apps With HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
by Stark, Jonathan; Jepson, Brian (CON)Edition: 2nd
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Pub. Date: 2012-02-01
Publisher(s): Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Summary
If you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the tools you need to develop Android applications. This hands-on book shows you how to use these open source web standards-instead of Java-to design and build apps that can be adapted for any Android device. You'll learn how to create an Android-friendly web app on the platform of your choice, and then convert it to a native Android app with Adobe's free PhoneGap framework. Discover why device-agnostic mobile apps are the wave of the future, and start building apps that offer greater flexibility and a broader reach. Learn the basics for making a web page look great on the Android web browser Convert a website into a web application, complete with progress indicators and more Add animation with JavaScript to make your web app look and feel like a native Android app Take advantage of client-side data storage with apps that run even when the Android device is offline Use PhoneGap to hook into advanced Android features-including the accelerometer, geolocation, and alerts Test and debug your app on the Web under load with real users, and then submit the finished product to the Android Market
Author Biography
Jonathan Stark is a mobile-application consultant cited by the Wall Street Journal as "an expert on publishing desktop data to the Web." He's a self-confessed techno-utopian who believes that wireless computing is going to transform every aspect of human society. Brian Jepson is an O'Reilly editor, hacker, and co-organizer of Providence Geeks and the Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Getting Started | p. 1 |
| Web Apps Versus Native Apps | p. 1 |
| What Is a Web App? | p. 1 |
| What Is a Native App? | p. 1 |
| Pros and Cons | p. 2 |
| Which Approach Is Right for You? | p. 2 |
| Web Programming Crash Course | p. 3 |
| Introduction to HTML | p. 3 |
| Introduction to CSS | p. 6 |
| Introduction to JavaScript | p. 9 |
| Bask Styling | p. 13 |
| Don't Have a Website? | p. 13 |
| First Steps | p. 15 |
| Prepare a Separate Android Stylesheet | p. 19 |
| Control the Page Scaling | p. 20 |
| Adding the Android CSS | p. 22 |
| Adding the Android Look and Feel | p. 26 |
| Adding Basic Behavior with jQuery | p. 28 |
| What You've Learned | p. 33 |
| Advanced Styling | p. 35 |
| Adding a Touch of Ajax | p. 35 |
| Traffic Cop | p. 36 |
| Setting Up Some Content to Work With | p. 38 |
| Routing Requests with JavaScript | p. 39 |
| Simple Bells and Whistles | p. 41 |
| Progress Indicator | p. 41 |
| Setting the Page Title | p. 44 |
| Handling Long Titles | p. 46 |
| Automatic Scroll-to-Top | p. 47 |
| Hijacking Local Links Only | p. 49 |
| Roll Your Own Back Button | p. 49 |
| Adding an Icon to the Home Screen | p. 56 |
| What You've Learned | p. 57 |
| Animation | p. 59 |
| With a Little Help from Our Friend | p. 59 |
| Sliding Home | p. 59 |
| Adding the Dates Panel | p. 62 |
| Adding the Date Panel | p. 65 |
| Adding the New Entry Panel | p. 68 |
| Adding the Settings Panel | p. 70 |
| Putting It All Together | p. 74 |
| Customizing jQTouch | p. 76 |
| What You've Learned | p. 78 |
| Client-Side Data Storage | p. 79 |
| Web Storage | p. 79 |
| Saving User Settings to Local Storage | p. 80 |
| Saving the Selected Date to Session Storage | p. 84 |
| Web SQL Database | p. 85 |
| Creating a Database | p. 86 |
| Inserting Rows | p. 90 |
| Selecting Rows and Handling Result Sets | p. 93 |
| Deleting Rows | p. 97 |
| Web Database Error Code Reference | p. 101 |
| What You've Learned | p. 102 |
| Going Offline | p. 103 |
| The Basics of the Offline Application Cache | p. 103 |
| Online Whitelist and Fallback Options | p. 107 |
| Creating a Dynamic Manifest File | p. 113 |
| Debugging | p. 117 |
| The JavaScript Console | p. 118 |
| What You've Learned | p. 120 |
| Going Native | p. 121 |
| Introduction to PhoneGap | p. 121 |
| Building Your App Locally with Eclipse and the Android SDK | p. 122 |
| Download and Install Eclipse Classic | p. 122 |
| Download and Install the Android SDK | p. 123 |
| Install the ADT Plug-In in Eclipse | p. 123 |
| Add Android Platforms and Other Components | p. 124 |
| Download the Latest Copy of PhoneGap | p. 125 |
| Set Up a New Android Project | p. 125 |
| Running Kilo as an Android App | p. 127 |
| Controlling the Phone with JavaScript | p. 129 |
| Beep, Vibrate, and Alert | p. 129 |
| Geolocation | p. 133 |
| Accelerometer | p. 140 |
| What You've Learned | p. 143 |
| Submitting Your App to the Android Market | p. 145 |
| Preparing a Release Version of Your App | p. 145 |
| Removing Debug Code | p. 145 |
| Versioning Your App | p. 146 |
| Compile and Sign Your App | p. 147 |
| Uploading Your App to the Android Market | p. 147 |
| Distributing Your App Directly | p. 149 |
| Further Reading | p. 153 |
| Appendix: Detecting Browsers with WURFL | p. 155 |
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