With the second edition of this popular book, you ll learn how to build HTML5 and CSS3-based apps that access geolocation, accelerometer, multi-touch screens, offline storage, and other features in today s smartphones, tablets, and feature phones. The market for mobile apps continues to evolve at a breakneck pace, and this book is the most complete reference available for the mobile web.

Author and mobile development expert Maximiliano Firtman shows you how to develop a standard app core that you can extend to work with specific devices. This updated edition covers many recent...

Would you like to build one mobile web application that works on iPad and Kindle Fire as well as iPhone and Android smartphones? This introductory guide to jQuery Mobile shows you how. Through a series of hands-on exercises, you ll learn the best ways to use this framework s many interface components to build customizable, multiplatform apps. You don t need any programming skills or previous experience with jQuery to get started.

By the time you finish this book, you ll know how to create responsive, Ajax-based interfaces that work on a variety of smartphones and tablets, using...