Programming the Mobile Web: Reaching Users on iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and more

By Maximiliano Firtman

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 advances in mobile development, including responsive web design techniques, offline storage, mobile design patterns, and new mobile browsers, platforms, and hardware APIs.

• Learn the particulars and pitfalls of building mobile websites and apps with HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and responsive techniques
• Create effective user interfaces for touch devices and different resolution displays
• Understand variations among iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Firefox OS, and other mobile platforms
• Bypass the browser to create native web apps, ebooks, and PhoneGap applications
• Build apps for browsers and online retailers such as the App Store, Google Play Store, Windows Store, and App World

• Language: English
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 18, 2013
• ISBN: 9781449335632

Maximiliano Firtman

Maximiliano Firtman (@firt) is a mobile and web developer, trainer, speaker, and writer. He has written many books, including Programming the Mobile Web and jQuery Mobile: Up and Running, published by O'Reilly Media. He is the founder of ITMaster Academy and he has been doing training on native mobile, the web, and performance for 15 years in more than 30 countries. Max has a blog about mobile web development at www.mobilexweb.com and he maintains the website www.mobilehtml5.org. He has created dozens of online training courses on Mobile HTML5, Apache Cordova, web performance, and native app development. He keeps an updated list of talks, training materials, and videos at http://firt.mobi. Max is a frequent speaker at conferences, including O'Reilly's Fluent and Velocity Conferences, Google Developer Day, Frontend, JSConf, and many other events around the world. He has received different recognitions, including Nokia Developer Champion, Adobe Community Champion, Microsoft IE User Agent, BlackBerry Elite developer, and a Google recognition for being one of the most innovative mobile developers.