Course Overview
This course introduces the fundamentals of creating mobile websites using the jQuery Mobile framework — a JavaScript library that makes it easy to create websites that render correctly on a variety of mobile devices, including iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad), Android, Blackberry, PalmOS, and others. Students will explore the basic structure of a jQuery Mobile page, how to implement commonly-used page components like headers, footers, toolbars, buttons, lists, dialogs, form controls and multi-column layouts. Additional topics include the jQuery Mobile navigation model, managing transitions between pages, using themes, and responding to touchscreen events like tap and swipe. NOTE: You should own or have access to at least one mobile device (smartphone or tablet) for this course.
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate how to apply the principles of HTML5 and CSS3 to mobile websites
- Describe how a mobile application page structure is built
- Construct a mobile user interface using elements such as buttons, toolbars, and sliders
- Classify and demonstrate where lists are to be used for data display, navigation, form results, and data entry
- Apply multi-page interfaces with transitions
- Demonstrate how to create and apply modal dialogues for interface interaction
- Describe how to develop forms for mobile applications
- Illustrate how to handle mobile touchscreen events such as tap, swipe, and so on
- Describe how to deal with page orientation on mobile devices
- Evaluate the importance of jQuery Themes in interface design
Effective as of Fall 2013
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