Beginning Android Web Apps Development: Develop for Android using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript

Book Description

With Beginning Android Web Apps Development, you’ll learn how to apply HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Ajax and other Web standards for use on the Android mobile platform, by building a variety of fun and visually stimulating games and other web applications! If you’ve done some basic web development, and you want to build your skills to create exceptional web apps, you’ll find everything you seek in the discussions and examples in this book.

Each application you’ll build in Beginning Android Web Application Development will show you solutions that you can apply to many of your own projects. Each example shares techniques and coding solutions that will inspire your own work.

You’ll learn how to tie your Android apps into Twitter through two apps that you’ll build: Who’s that Tweet?!, a quiz game based on celebrity accounts, and I Love Ham, a coding investigation into search phrases and rhyming.

Your Android web app development skills will then proceed in another direction, as you discover the power of HTML5 in two game apps: Scavenger Hunt, which introduces you to the HTML5 GPS location API, and Spies!, a location-based application that shows you how to use CSS3, Ajax, and HTML5 within multi-player environments.

You’ll also create an Android web application which checks the arrival time of buses and light-rails through the use of Portland, Oregon’s open Tri-Met data API! This app is a great template for other apps you may want to build in the future, and showcases the important techniques for incorporating cloud-based apps into web games.

After reading Beginning Android Web Apps Development, you will have built real apps and developed along the way the skills you’ll need to create highly interactive, professional web applications… and, your journey will be engaging and enjoyable!

What you’ll learn

• Coding solutions that you can use time and again in your own Android web apps
• Key methods and techniques for contemporary Android web app development
• How to take full advantage of CSS3 in the mobile environment and how to handle a multitude of screen resolutions
• How to build feature-rich user interfaces with navigation, colors, and professional styling
• How to add audio and video for highly interactive sites
• How to optimize Ajax within your site
• How to access and use the HTML location API
• How to integrate JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks into your site

Who this book is for

For anyone starting out in Android web app development who wants to build feature-rich web apps that are optimized for the Android mobile platform. If you’ve got basic web development skills, you’ll find the code samples and discussions in this book will take your techniques to a completely different level.

Table of Contents

1. Harnessing the Power of Mobile Web

2. Twitter Application: Who’s That Tweet?

3. Twitter Application: I Love Ham

4. Creating a Mobile Strategy and Structuring your Code

5. Handling Multiple Screen Resolutions with CSS 3

6. Handling Different Browser Platforms

7. Providing an Impressive User Experience with jQuery Mobile

8. Building Visually Rich Internet Applications

9. HTML5 Location-Based Applications

10. Using Cloud Services: A Transport Application

11. Pushing the Limits with Audio and Video

12. Ajax and Extreme User Interfaces

13. Packaging Your Applications

中文：

书名：Beginning Android Web Apps Development: Develop for Android using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript

With Beginning Android Web Apps Development, 您将学习如何通过构建各种有趣和视觉刺激的游戏和其他Web应用程序，在Android移动平台上应用HTML5、CSS3、JavaScript、AJAX和其他Web标准！如果您已经完成了一些基本的Web开发，并且您想要培养自己的技能来创建卓越的Web应用程序，您将在本书的讨论和示例中找到您想要的一切。

Each application you’ll build in 开始Android Web应用程序开发 将向您展示可应用于您自己的许多项目的解决方案。每个示例都分享了一些技术和编码解决方案，它们将启发您自己的工作。

你将学习如何通过两款应用将你的Android应用程序与Twitter绑定：一款是基于名人账号的智力游戏Who‘s That Tweet？！，另一款是针对搜索短语和押韵进行编码调查的I Love Ham。

然后，您的Android Web应用程序开发技能将转向另一个方向，因为您将在两个游戏应用程序中发现HTML5的强大功能：Screvenger Hunt，它向您介绍HTML5 GPS Location API；以及Spies！，它是一个基于位置的应用程序，向您展示如何在多玩家环境中使用CSS3、AJAX和HTML5。

您还将创建一个Android Web应用程序，它通过使用俄勒冈州波特兰市开放的Tri-Met Data API！来检查公共汽车和轻轨的到达时间。这款应用为你未来可能想要构建的其他应用程序提供了一个很好的模板，并展示了如何将基于云的应用程序整合到网络游戏中的重要技术。

读完后 Beginning Android Web Apps Development，您将已经构建了真正的应用程序，并在此过程中发展了创建高度交互的专业Web应用程序所需的技能，而且，您的旅程将是迷人和愉快的！

你会学到什么

• 编写您可以在自己的Android Web应用程序中反复使用的解决方案
• 当代Android Web应用开发的关键方法和技术
• 如何在移动环境中充分利用CSS3以及如何处理多种屏幕分辨率
• 如何使用导航、颜色和专业样式构建功能丰富的用户界面
• 如何为高互动网站添加音频和视频
• How to optimize Ajax within your site
• 如何访问和使用HTMLLocation API
• 如何将JavaScript和JavaScript框架集成到您的站点

这本书是为谁而写的

对于任何想要构建针对Android移动平台优化的功能丰富的Web应用程序的Android Web应用程序开发初学者来说，如果您具备基本的Web开发技能，您将发现本书中的代码示例和讨论将把您的技术带到一个完全不同的水平。

目录表

1. Harnessing the Power of Mobile Web

2. Twitter Application: Who’s That Tweet?

3. Twitter Application: I Love Ham

4.制定移动战略并构建代码结构

5.使用CSS3处理多种屏幕分辨率

6.处理不同的浏览器平台

7.使用jQuery Mobile提供令人印象深刻的用户体验

8.构建视觉丰富的互联网应用程序

9. HTML5 Location-Based Applications

10.使用云服务：构建交通应用

11.用音频和视频突破极限

12. Ajax and Extreme User Interfaces

13.打包您的应用程序