A step-by-step tutorial to HTML5 mobile application development
HTML5 for iOS and Android: A Beginners Guideleads you from the first steps of creating a Web page, through styling it with CSS, and then giving it dynamic interactivity with JavaScript. You’ll learn how to create real-world websites and apps for both the Apple iPhone/iPad and Google Android platforms. Advice on how to handle platforms such as Nokia, Palm Pre, and others is included. The book serves as a one-stop guide and reference, providing all the information required to develop useable mobile apps and websites from scratch. Features covered include offline support, Canvas, video, advanced forms, and the Geolocation API.
HTML5 for iOS and Android: A Beginners Guide
Provides an all-in-one guide for mobile developers—everything needed to go from beginner status to pro developer is included
Explains both basic HTML and HTML5
Covers Apple iPhone/iPad and Google Android platforms
Shows how to create websites, web apps, and self-contained (native) apps
Contains a full JavaScript tutorial, with particular reference to using it on mobile and touch devices
Includes a guide to using CSS in a mobile environment
Features detailed graphics for every step of each process
Offers the examples from the book for download
About the Author
Robin Nixon (Folkestone, Kent (UK) is a developer and freelance technical writer who has published more than 500 articles in UK magazines such as PC Plus, PCW, Web User, .net, PC Advisor, and PC Answers. He is the author of several computer books, including Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript by O’Reilly, as well as McGraw-Hill’s Plug-In PHP: 100 Power Solutions. Robin’s most recent book is Ubuntu: Up and Running by O’Reilly, and he has recently completed Plug-in JavaScript: 100 Power Solutions for McGraw-Hill. Robin is currently developing a JavaScript cross-browser and cross-platform eBook creator and reader for building dynamic web and mobile eBook applications, which will be released under a Creative Commons license. He has practical, real world experience in porting to (and developing applications for) Apple and Android devices.
This practical introductory guide teaches you how to build rich interactive content with JavaFX.
JavaFX: A Beginner’s Guide shows you how to get started creating rich, interactive content using this cross-platform content delivery system. The book walks you through the basics to more challenging concepts, so you’ll quickly understand and begin using JavaFX. This practical guide also covers the JavaFX Production Suite–a powerful plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator that allows users to create content specifically for JavaFX.
Discover how to take advantage of cross-platform capabilities–JavaFX is fully integrated with the Java Runtime and thus JavaFX content can run on any platform capable of running Java. You’ll learn, step by step, how to build desktop, browser, and mobile applications.
Designed for Easy Learning:
Key Skills & Concepts–Chapter-opening lists of specific skills covered in the chapter
Ask the Expert–Q&A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips
Try This–Hands-on exercises that show you how to apply your skills
Notes–Extra information related to the topic being covered
Tips–Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things
Annotated Syntax–Example code with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated
About the Author
J. F. DiMarzio (Tampa, FL) has been a professional Java developer for more than nine years and a professional web developer for more than 15. He now actively works with Java and JavaFx to create stunning user experiences for his clients. DiMarzio has written seven books, including Android: A Programmer’s Guide and runs Technical Difficulties, a Java, JavaFx, JQuery, and Android blog at jfdimarzio.com.
A Zend Technologies columnist and bestselling PHP author provides practical information on today’s most popular PHP framework—with more than 7 million downloads.
Aimed squarely at real-world PHP developers working against aggressive deadlines, Zend Framework: A Beginner’s Guide teaches developers how to work smarter, by using the most popular open-source framework for PHP. Feature-rich, robust and mature, Zend Framework can simplify and shorten the application development cycle, reduce testing time, improve quality, and provide the developer with the extensibility, scalability and flexibility needed in today’s competitive, rapidly-changing environment. This book shows how to maximize all the features of Zend Framework.
Zend Framework is to PHP what JavaServer Faces is to Java. Just as Java Server Faces: The Complete Reference is popular and useful for Java developers, Zend Framework: A Beginner’s Guide will be the best guide for open source developers looking to develop web applications using PHP and the new Zend Framework.
Key Selling Features
Author is has been a well-known featured columnist with Zend Technologies since 2006. His columns are among the most popular on the Zend Technology community site.
Covers the most important components of the Zend Framework
Introduces MVC concepts and theory, and then demonstrates real-world implementation of the theory
Provides numerous projects and code examples
Companion website includes all of the code in the book
About the Author
Vikram Vaswani (Bombay, India) is the founder and CEO of Melonfire (http://www.melonfire.com/), a company specializing in software consultancy and content creation and syndication services. He is also the author of PHP Programming Solutions, How to do Everything with PHP and MySQL, and MySQL: The Complete Reference (all McGraw-Hill/Osborne titles) and XML and PHP (New Riders Publishing) He is also the author of numerous well-received articles on open-source technologies (including Perl, Python, XML and the very popular PHP 101 series), all written with the goal of making complex technologies accessible and understandable to novice users.
He has been developing software since 1995, was first introduced to PHP in 1998, and hasn’t looked back since. He is regular columnist with Zend Technologies (creators of PHP), as well as with IBM DeveloperWorks, CNET Builder.com, DevX.com and other OSS sites
Articles by Vikram Vaswani
Article 01: Zend Developer Zone on April 21, 2010 Build an Enterprise – Grade PHP Stack with Zend Server 5.0 and Oracle 11g To read, please click HERE
Article 02: IBM on May 11, 2010 Implement SOAP services with the Zend Framework To read, please clickHERE
Robin Nixon has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s (his first computer was a Tandy TRS 80 Model 1 with a massive 4KB of RAM!). During this time he has written in excess of 500 articles for many of the U.K.’s top computer magazines.
Robin started his computing career in the Cheshire homes for disabled people, where he was responsible for setting up computer rooms in a number of residential homes, and for evaluating and tailoring hardware and software so that disabled people could use the new technology – sometimes by means of only a single switch operated by mouth or finger.
After writing articles for computer magazines about his work with disabled people, he eventually worked full time for one of the country’s main IT magazine publishers, where he held several roles including editorial, promotions, and cover disc editing.
With the dawn of the Internet in the 1990s, Robin branched out into developing websites. One of these presented the world’s first radio station licensed by the music copyright holders, and was featured in several news reports on TV and radio networks in the United Kingdom. In order to enable people to continue to surf while listening, Robin also developed the first known pop-up windows.
Robin lives on the southeast coast of England with his wife Julie, a trained nurse, and five children, where he also finds time to foster three disabled children, as well as working full time from home as a technical author.
Robin has contributed an article to “The Daily Tip” section on “IT World,” and Plug-In PHP is one of the featured books on the company’s web site. For a look at the article, please click HERE.
A Beginner’s Guide series, written for absolute beginners is designed for Easy Learning with Key Skills & Concepts with chapter-opening lists of specific skills covered in the chapter , Q&A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips, hands-on exercises that show you how to apply your skills, Extra information related to the topic being covered and Helpful reminders to help you prepare for the exam and alternative ways of doing things.
This series has reveived several praises from SciTech Book News, which is published by Book News, Inc. Book News prepares concise, descriptive reviews of new books in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities for librarians and other buyers of serious books; SciTech Book News is unique in its coverage of high-level books in technology, engineering, computer, medicine, agriculture, and the physical & biological sciences.
Reviewed in the March 2010 issue ofSciTech Book News
“Written for absolute beginners, this tutorial shows how to program in AppleScript, the scripting language built into Mac OS X, in order to automatically generate documents, spreadsheets, and e-mails. Sections cover getting started, essential AppleScript programming techniques, and automating major applications with AppleScript. Debugging and error handling are also covered. Learning features include Q&A sections, hands-on exercises, tips, cautions, and example code with annotations. A companion web site offers ready-to-use code. Hart-Davis has written other computer books.”
Reviewed in the September 2009 issue of SciTech Book News
“The fourth edition of this beginner’s guide to programming in the HTML language describes the basic steps of structuring pages, placing images, formatting text, creating links, adding color, using forms and working with multimedia. Willard, a freelance web designer and consultant, uses hands-on exercises, self tests and Q&A sections so that novices can learn advanced applications such as dynamic web content, CSS and JavaScript. A new chapter has been added in this version that covers the use of HTML for email so that target audiences can be reached through online communications.”
An excerpt from this book has been published in the Winter issue of iPhone Life Magazine. To view the excerpt, please use the following link (article located on pages 80-81 of the electronic issue), please click Here.
HTML5 for iOS and Android: A Beginner’s Guide
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