www.it-ebooks.info jQuery Mobile Cookbook Over 80 recipes with examples and practical tips to help you quickly learn and develop cross-platform applications with jQuery Mobile Chetan K Jain BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI www.it-ebooks.info jQuery Mobile Cookbook Copyright © 2012 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book. Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information. First published: November 2012 Production Reference: 1011112 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. Livery Place 35 Livery Street Birmingham B3 2PB, UK. ISBN 978-1-84951-722-5 www.packtpub.com Cover Image by Abhishek Pandey (abhishek.pandey1210@gmail.com) www.it-ebooks.info Credits Author Chetan K Jain Reviewers Shaun Dunne Ankit Garg Yousef Jadallah Acquisition Editor Usha Iyer Lead Technical Editor Arun Nadar Technical Editors Kirti Puajri Lubna Shaikh Project Coordinator Vishal Bodwani Proofreader Aaron Nash Maria Gould Indexer Hemangini Bari Production Coordinator Arvindkumar Gupta Cover Work Arvindkumar Gupta www.it-ebooks.info About the Author Chetan K Jain loves to code, and has been writing code for over 16 years now. He is a Senior Architect, and has worked on mobile technologies for over 4 years for Nokia. Since then, he has moved on to work as a freelance consultant. Chetan has signicant experience in writing cross-platform mobile apps using jQuery Mobile, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Nodejs, and has also worked extensively on Qt. Prior to mobile technologies, he has worked with Java technology and was also certied as an MCSD and MCSE in his early days. Chetan is an active contributor to open source development, and tries to help jQuery Mobile development whenever he can. He regularly participates in developer forums, and was earlier a top-ranked member and a "mad scientist" in the Nokia Qt Developer Forum. Chetan was born in Bangalore and lives there with his wife Shwetha and son Tanmay. The only time he ventured to live away from Bangalore was when he worked for over 4 years in the USA. His adventure didn't end there. He did a solo US cross country drive in his two door coupe from the east coast to the west and back, driving alone for over 8000 plus miles in 16 days to experience and live life as he calls it. His travelogue can be found at http://adventure.chetankjain.net. Chetan has contributed and published over 15 books to Gutenberg as a volunteer. He has also published four books on Jaina Literature and History written by his mother Saraswathamma. He is a voracious reader, and his other interests include music, movies, and travelling. Photography is his favorite hobby, and his clicks can be found at http://www.facebook.com/chetankjainphotos/photos_stream. Chetan can be reached at chetankjain@gmail.com. He also blogs at http://dev.chetankjain.net. www.it-ebooks.info Acknowledgement First and foremost, my wife Shwetha and son Tanmay deserve full credit for the completion of this book. This book was possible only because of their understanding, support, and countless sacrices. For days I would be unavailable, miss many family events, and yet they continued to shower me with all their love and affection. I thank my parents, Mahendra Kumar Jaini and Saraswathamma, for their love, support, and for everything that I am today. I miss my father, but he is always there with me. My mother is my muse, and I follow her footsteps now as an author. I have a very supportive sister Suma Jain and nephew Poojith Jain who never fail to pep me up. Ashwin Das, is family, and I enjoy bouncing all my ideas with him. I thank my very close friend, Chidananda P, for all the help and support that he continues to give me. I thank my childhood friend Anand Rao for always being there as my buddy and for encouraging every project of mine. My venture into mobile space has been very enjoyable. I thank all my former colleagues in Nokia—Prahalad Rao for being a great manager and for directly supporting me at work when I started this book, Sathish EV for all those initial reviews, Bhuwan Lodha for encouraging me to blog, Ashwin Das, Karthik S, Prasad S, Pavanesh, and Krishna KN for all the suggestions given. A very special thanks to Govind Ashrit, who actually urged me to write this book. Thank you guys! I also thank Shaun Dunne, Ankit Garg, and Yousef Jadallah for reviewing the technical content of the book, and suggesting valuable changes and corrections. Finally, I thank Packt Publishers and Usha Iyer for giving me this opportunity. My heartfelt thanks to my editors Vishal Bodwani, Arun Nadar, Kirti Pujari, and Lubna Shaikh for tirelessly reviewing my writing—multiple times, and giving me many valuable suggestions. You guys were just great! www.it-ebooks.info About the Reviewers Shaun Dunne is a Developer working for SapientNitro in London, UK, and has been coding since 2008 with a passion for JavaScript and all the front-end goodness. Working for a large agency over the past few years, Shaun has had the chance to use various web technologies to build large scale applications, and found a passion for getting other people excited about the web. Shaun has been hacking the mobile web for a couple of years, trying and testing all the tools available and sharing his discoveries where he can, to ensure that others are aware of what is available to use and in what situation. When he's not working or spending some family time with his kids, he can usually be found on the web, tinkering, blogging, and building things. He's currently working on his own book, a self-published title about SASS and Friends called UberCSS, which is due to be released in the winter of 2012. Ankit Garg is a Front-End Developer at iGate Global Solutions. He likes to call himself a Mobile Web Application Developer, a JavaScript Developer, and a blogger. He likes reading, practicing, and blogging new things in the Mobile Web and JavaScript space. If you would like to reach him, send him an e-mail to gargankit90@gmail.com. www.it-ebooks.info Yousef J. Jadallah is a software developer. He has good hands-on experience of web and .NET technologies, such as ASP.NET, SQL Server, AJAX, ASP.NET AJAX, C#,VB.NET, jQuery Mobile, HTML5, Web Services, and REST. He spends most of his leisure time helping the communities on Microsoft technologies, specically in the Microsoft ofcial forum. He is honored with the Microsoft Community Contributor Award - 2011 (CCA). He is from Jordan. 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