Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API

Description

Confident of your web application skills but not yet au fait with mobile development? Well this book helps you use the Kendo UI for a painless introduction. Practical tasks and clear instructions make learning a breeze.

Overview

• Learn the basics of developing mobile applications The usage of HTML5 and create an end-to-end mobile application from scratch
• Discover all about Kendo UI Mobile, ASP .NET Web API, and how to integrate them
• Understand how to organize your JavaScript code to achieve extensibility and maintainability
• Get your hands dirty in a jiffy with 50+ jsFiddle examples

In Detail

With the world becoming more mobile, there is a growing need for mobile websites and applications. Building these from scratch is not a simple process. Kendo UI Mobile makes building websites and applications easier than ever before. Build applications for phones and tablets very quickly at all and provide your user with a native look and feel.

Building Mobile Applications The usage of Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API helps you to understand the concept of building mobile applications The usage of HTML5 based frameworks, specifically Kendo UI Mobile. It teaches you in a simple step by step manner how to create a service backend layer The usage of ASP.NET Web API and how to integrate it with your front end mobile application, which is the missing piece of the puzzle for most developers who are new to mobile applications development. Learn everything from the basics of HTML5 to design and development of a mobile application The usage of Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API. Integrate them in the right way The usage of extensible and maintainable JavaScript code.

Starting with the basics of the Kendo UI platform, learn to build a real world mobile application from scratch. You’ll explore the Kendo UI framework elements and integrate the sample mobile application with the ASP.NET Web API service. One of the important things that you are going to learn from this book is how to organize your code The usage of the JavaScript Revealing Module Pattern. You’ll also take a journey through Kendo UI Mobile widgets with plenty of code samples hosted in jsFiddle. At the end of this book, You’ll complete the integration of the sample application and master fixing real world problems utilizing your newly acquired professional techniques that will save you time and effort.

Building Mobile Applications The usage of Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API will help you enhance your mobile application development skills The usage of hands-on examples, and will help you address the common problems faced by beginners as well as experienced web programmers.

What You’ll learn from this book

• Learn the concepts in the back of building mobile applications The usage of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
• Build HTTP based services The usage of ASP.NET Web API
• Secure ASP.NET Web API services
• Build a complete real world Movie Tickets application from scratch
• Implement HTTP basic authentication
• Learn about Kendo UI Framework components like templates, MVVM, and DataSource
• Discover Kendo UI Mobile widgets and customize them The usage of jsFiddle examples
• Organize your JavaScript code The usage of the Revealing Module Pattern

Approach

With easy-to-follow, step by step and real-life examples, You’ll be building your own mobile applications in a matter of days The usage of Kendo Mobile UI and ASP.NET Web API.