About this course
So you want to make dynamic mobile applications, but you don't want to learn the native toolkits for Android, iOS or even Windows 8? This course is what you're looking for! With this HTML5 Mobile App Development course, you will learn to create HTML5 based mobile applications that can be sold in the Apple App store, the Google Play Store or other mobile marketplaces.
If you know the basics of HTML, CSS and Javascript, you're ready to take this exciting course. You'll be encouraged to code along with master instructor Mark Lassoff, as you create applications that demonstrate many of the features available in the PhoneGap (aka Cordova) library. You'll work with applications that control audio and video, use remote data from a server, and interact with the phone's camera and microphone hardware.
If you already know HTML, CSS and Javascript, you can be well on your way to creating engaging mobile applications that you can distribute to all major phone platforms-- without coding a line of Java or Objective C. Using the PhoneGap platform and the techniques demonstrated in this course you can also write your code once and distribute to both iOS and Android easily.
This course includes hours of video lectures, dozens of code and application examples and engaging lab exercises to help you retain the material once you have reviewed it.
What are the requirements?
- PC or Mac with Android SDK and Eclipse
- PhoneGap Download (Free)
- XCode for Mac (Free and Optional)
- Basic understand of HTML, CSS and Javascript
What am I going to get from this course?
- Over 54 lectures and 7 hours of content!
- After completing this course you'll be able to create functional crossplatform mobile applications using HTML5, CSS and Javsascript
- Understand how to deploy applications for iOS
- Understand how to deploy Android applications
- Know several techniques for testing mobile apps
- Understand the HTML5 document structure as applied to mobile
- Be able to create multipage and multistate applications
- Know how to support several screen sizes in a single application with design degredation
- Understand how to apply Service Oriented Architecture Principals to Mobile Apps
- Be able to send paramaterized queries to a web service/server
- Be able to parse XML returned from a server
- Be able to parse JSON returned from a server
- Understand how to store session data on the device
- Understand how to persist data on the device between sessions
- Be able to play and control audio and video content
- Be able to record audio through the device microphone
- Take advantage of Geolocation and Movement Hardware on the device
- Interact with device contacts
- Understand how to use the jQuery Mobile library to create pleasing interfaces
- Understand how to use jQuery Mobile Widgets
What is the target audience?
- Web Developers who want to Create Mobile Apps
- Teachers who want to Teach Mobile Development
- Students
- Traditional Developers Looking to "Go Mobile"
- Designers Who Want to Understand Mobile
- Developers who want to create cross-platform apps that work on iOS and Android without porting
