Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: Making App Store Apps Without Objective-C or Cocoa

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It's a fact: if you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the tools you need to develop your own iPhone apps. With this book, you'll learn how to use these open source web technologies to design and build apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch on the platform of your choice-without using Objective-C or Cocoa. Device-agnostic mobile apps are the wave of the future, and this book shows you how to create one product for several platforms. You'll find guidelines for converting your product into a native iPhone app using the free PhoneGap framework. And you'll learn why releasing your product as a web app first helps you find, fix, and test bugs much faster than if you went straight to the App Store with a product built with Apple's tools. Build iPhone apps with tools you already know how to use Learn how to make an existing website look and behave like an iPhone app Add native-looking animations to your web app using jQTouch Take advantage of client-side data storage with apps that run even when the iPhone is offline Hook into advanced iPhone features -- including the accelerometer, geo location, and vibration -- with JavaScript Submit your applications to the App Store with Xcode About The Author Jonathan Stark is a mobile and web application consultant who the Wall Street Journal has called an expert on publishing desktop data to the web. He has written two books on web application programming, is a tech editor for both php|architect and Advisor magazines, and has been quoted in the media on internet and mobile lifestyle trends. Jonathan began his programming career more than 20 years ago on a Tandy TRS-80 and still thinks Zork was a sweet game. Table of Contents Chapter 1 Getting Started Web Apps Versus Native Apps Web Programming Crash Course Chapter 2 Basic iPhone Styling First Steps Adding the iPhone CSS Adding the iPhone Look and Feel Adding Basic Behavior with jQuery What You’ve Learned Chapter 3 Advanced iPhone Styling Adding a Touch of Ajax Traffic Cop Simple Bells and Whistles Roll Your Own Back Button Adding an Icon to the Home Screen Full Screen Mode What You’ve Learned Chapter 4 Animation With a Little Help from Our Friend Sliding Home Adding the Dates Panel Adding the Date Panel Adding the New Entry Panel Adding the Settings Panel Putting It All Together Customizing jQTouch What You’ve Learned Chapter 5 Client-Side Data Storage local Storage and session Storage Client-Side Database What You’ve Learned Chapter 6 Going Offline The Basics of the Offline Application Cache Online Whitelist and Fallback Options Creating a Dynamic Manifest File Debugging What You’ve Learned Chapter 7 Going Native Intro to PhoneGap Installing Your App on the iPhone Controlling the iPhone with JavaScript What You’ve Learned Chapter 8 Submitting Your App to iTunes Creating an iPhone Distribution Provisioning Profile Installing the iPhone Distribution Provisioning Profile Renaming the Project Prepare the Application Binary Submit Your App While You Wait Further Reading Colophon