Building Cross-Platform Mobile and Web Apps for Engineers and Scientists
This powerful new book introduces cross-platform app design as an excellent starting point for mastering app development. The book contains numerous applications that can be adapted to different projects. The book introduces HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery Mobile, Node.js, JSON, localStorage, sessionStorage, NoSQL using MongoDB, SQL using MySQL, templating using handlebars, and maps. A strong app-centric view emphasizes appropriate subsets of these technologies to help readers develop non-trivial apps. While apps continue to evolve and change, the technologies presented form the backbone of future cross-platform app development. Readers learn to work with all major mobile and web platforms using the book's active learning approach that has users type code in parallel as apps are developed. Exercises further encourage readers to make changes to the code and evaluate resulting app behavior. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.