Beginning Android Web Apps Development: Develop for Android using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
eBook Details:
- Paperback: 284 pages
- Publisher: WOW! eBook; 1st edition (May 16, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430239573
- ISBN-13: 978-1430239574
eBook Description:
Beginning Android Web Apps Development
With Beginning Android Web Apps Development: Develop for Android using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, you’ll learn how to apply HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Ajax and other Web standards for use on the Android mobile platform, by building a variety of fun and visually stimulating games and other web applications! If you’ve done some basic web development, and you want to build your skills to create exceptional web apps, you’ll find everything you seek in the discussions and examples in this book.
Beginning Android Web Apps Development: Develop for Android using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript shows how to build applications using the key methods and techniques of Android development that you’ll need to create your own dynamic, feature-rich Android mobile websites and applications.
With Beginning Android Web Apps Development: Develop for Android using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, you’ll learn how to apply HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Ajax and other Web standards for use on the Android mobile platform, by building a variety of fun and visually stimulating games and other web applications! If you’ve done some basic web development, and you want to build your skills to create exceptional web apps, you’ll find everything you seek in the discussions and examples in this book.
Each application you’ll build in Beginning Android Web Apps Development: Develop for Android using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript will show you solutions that you can apply to many of your own projects. Each example shares techniques and coding solutions that will inspire your own work.
You’ll learn how to tie your Android apps into Twitter through two apps that you’ll build: Who’s that Tweet?!, a quiz game based on celebrity accounts, and I Love Ham, a coding investigation into search phrases and rhyming.
Your Android web app development skills will then proceed in another direction, as you discover the power of HTML5 in two game apps: Scavenger Hunt, which introduces you to the HTML5 GPS location API, and Spies!, a location-based application that shows you how to use CSS3, Ajax, and HTML5 within multi-player environments.
You’ll also create an Android web application which checks the arrival time of buses and light-rails through the use of Portland, Oregon’s open Tri-Met data API! This app is a great template for other apps you may want to build in the future, and showcases the important techniques for incorporating cloud-based apps into web games.
After reading Beginning Android Web Apps Development: Develop for Android using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, you will have built real apps and developed along the way the skills you’ll need to create highly interactive, professional web applications… and, your journey will be engaging and enjoyable!
What you’ll learn
- Coding solutions that you can use time and again in your own Android web apps
- Key methods and techniques for contemporary Android web app development
- How to take full advantage of CSS3 in the mobile environment and how to handle a multitude of screen resolutions
- How to build feature-rich user interfaces with navigation, colors, and professional styling
- How to add audio and video for highly interactive sites
- How to optimize Ajax within your site
- How to access and use the HTML location API
- How to integrate JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks into your site
Who this book is for
For anyone starting out in Android web app development who wants to build feature-rich web apps that are optimized for the Android mobile platform. If you’ve got basic web development skills, you’ll find the code samples and discussions in this book will take your techniques to a completely different level.
Beginning Android Web Apps Development: Develop for Android using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript shows how to build applications using the key methods and techniques of Android development that you’ll need to create your own dynamic, feature-rich Android mobile websites and applications.
With Beginning Android Web Apps Development: Develop for Android using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, you’ll learn how to apply HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Ajax and other Web standards for use on the Android mobile platform, by building a variety of fun and visually stimulating games and other web applications! If you’ve done some basic web development, and you want to build your skills to create exceptional web apps, you’ll find everything you seek in the discussions and examples in this book.
Each application you’ll build in Beginning Android Web Apps Development: Develop for Android using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript will show you solutions that you can apply to many of your own projects. Each example shares techniques and coding solutions that will inspire your own work.
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