JQuery mobile e-book Development

Question

I am in the process of developing an e-book for various mobile devices. This e-book will involve mathematics and it is meant to serve kids in the junior school on tablets an

Answer 1

You should check out the Getting Started guides from Cordova as it will tell you how to get going with each platform.

I have also read the PhoneGap Essentials and found it a good way to get up to speed on the platform.

Total disclosure up front that I am on the product team, but Red Gate make a product that allows you to develop Cordova applications from within Visual Studio so if that is an environment that you are familiar with then you should check it out, it is called Nomad for Visual Studio

Answer 2

There are a lot of available tutorials.

Best of them can be found directly on Phonegap/Cordova web pages:

Phonegap/Cordova installation and configuration:

• MacOS Cordova + Android : http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.1.0/guide_getting-started_android_index.md.html#Getting%20Started%20with%20Android

• MacOS Cordova + iOS : http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.1.0/guide_getting-started_ios_index.md.html#Getting%20Started%20with%20iOS

• Windows/MacOS Cordova + Android : http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.2.0/guide_getting-started_android_index.md.html

  and

  http://iphonedevlog.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/building-a-phonegap-android-app-on-windows-cordova-2-2-0-with-eclipse/

• A lot of phonegap examples: http://www.mobiledevelopersolutions.com/home/start/twominutetutorials

Jquery + Phonegap/Cordova

• App example: http://coenraets.org/blog/2011/10/sample-application-with-jquery-mobile-and-phonegap/

• Nothing complex but usable: http://pieterderycke.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/developing-mobile-applications-with-phonegap-and-jquery-mobile/

• Official jQuery Mobile + Phonegap know how : http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/pages/phonegap.html

• And here's probably one of the best tutorials: http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mobile-web-apps/jquery_android/

Rest:

• My article about the Hybrid/native apps: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14069937/1848600

• My article on the Phonegap performance issues: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13572977/1848600

E-Book :

• Here's am ebook reader plugin for phonegap: http://code.google.com/p/phonegap-ebookreader-plugin/

Useful links:

JQUERY DOCUMENT READY VS JQUERY MOBILE PAGE EVENTS

JQUERY MOBILE AND HOW TO ENHANCE THE MARKUP OF DYNAMICALLY ADDED CONTENT

HOW JQUERY MOBILE PAGE HANDLING AFFECTS JAVASCRIPT EXECUTION

SECRETS OF A GOOD JQUERY MOBILE PAGE ARCHITECTURE