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Continuing from Developing an HTML5 iPhone app using jQuery mobile & PhoneGap – Part I The App Structure The following is the app folder structure. As mentioned in Part I, we used jQuery and jQuery mobile as the mobile javascript frameworks for the colour match app. – www — js — jquerymobile.js — colourpicker — [...]

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Last week, we submitted an iPhone app to iTunes app store. This week, it was approved by Apple and the app is now available for download from the app store. Since everyone knows that HTML5 and app development is the future of mobile space, we’d like to share with you our experience of developing an [...]

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This tutorial will teach you how to embed a YouTube video iframe in a phonegap app. In this tutorial, I am using phonegap version 1.2.0. Youtube will automatically convert the flash video into HTML5 video tag so you don’t have to worry about encoding the video. HTML: Go to YouTube and get embed code for [...]

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The following snippet of code will display a google map with user’s default location on jQuery mobile page if location services is enabled. Otherwise, it will use predefined lat and long values to create the map. The code uses jQuery mobile pagecreate event. A little info on jQuery mobile pagecreate event: pagecreate Triggered when the [...]

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“Master Mobile Web Apps with jQuery Mobile” is an e-book on jQuery Mobile written by Matt Doyle, an experienced technical author and coder. According to the author, the book is intended for web development and design professionals who want to start building apps and therefore a basic knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript [...]

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There are many web development related iPhone apps on the Appstore, but it not very often you come across a FREE app that is useful and works as it should. Therefore, I am sharing 13 Free iPhone apps that I think will be useful for you as a web developer. PhpRiot PHP Reference This app [...]

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This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to create a contact form in jQuery Mobile. I have also included complete php source code that can be used as a web service to send emails from your server. Download 1. Create a folder structure The first thing you need to do is create a folder structure [...]

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CSS3 animations are really easy to write once you know how they work. This post will show you some very basic animations done in CSS3. Once you get the hang of how to put them together, you will be able to do more advanced animations in CSS3 based on these examples. Also have a look [...]

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