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Developing Mobile Web Applications with jQuery Mobile

Reference course outline

0.8 days
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Duration

0.8 day

What you will learn

Self-paced virtual classroom (SPVC) courses provide the same deep technical content as WebSphere Education classroom courses, but allow you to learn on your own schedule. You can stop and start a self-paced virtual class as needed during the 30-day access period.

There is no live instructor for this course, so it might not be appropriate for students who require the guidance of a live instructor.

In this course, you learn how to use the jQuery Mobile framework to build mobile web applications.

The jQuery Mobile framework enhances web pages with user interface elements designed for smartphones and tablets. Developers can customize the theme of mobile applications to create a common visual identity across different devices.

The course begins with a quick start guide for building jQuery Mobile web applications.

Using little to no additional JavaScript programming, developers can design web applications for major mobile platforms. You learn how jQuery Mobile provides page views, list views, and dialogs for mobile systems. The exercises in the course help you build your own mobile web development skills by covering jQuery and jQuery Mobile user interface widgets and themes.

The lab environment for this course uses the Windows platform that runs a VMware image on a remote ESX server. You access the remote environment from a browser on your workstation.

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Audience

This intermediate course is designed for web developers and application programmers who want to create cross-platform dynamic web applications that can run on desktop browsers and mobile devices.

Prerequisites

You should have:

  • Some experience in developing web applications that are marked up with HTML (Hypertext Markup
  • Language) and JavaScript
  • Basic understanding of the document object model (DOM) and the use of common HTML markup elements, such as and
  • Some familiarity with the Eclipse-based development tools

These prerequisites can be met through experience by successfully completing course Introduction to HTML5 and JavaScript Programming (ZU370).

Course Objectives

  • Describe the benefits of using the jQuery Mobile framework for building cross-device web applications
  • Describe the features of jQuery Mobile
  • Use jQuery Mobile to auto-enhance form control elements that accept data input
  • Create mobile pages, lists, and dialogs
  • Link between pages in a mobile web application
  • Get external data resources and display them in the page
  • Develop and test jQuery mobile applications

Course Topics

  • Course introduction
  • jQuery Mobile overview
  • Exercise: Developing an HTML5 mobile web page that uses jQuery mobile form controls
  • Getting started with jQuery scripting
  • Exercise: Creating a mobile user interface for the index page of a web application
  • Exercise: Developing a jQuery Mobile page that updates its information from a web service

This is a version-specific reference outline. Confirm the current syllabus and delivery arrangements with EIEIO.