About the course
During this 3 day course, participants will learn the process of designing and building a mobile web application from scratch. This course will look at what you should consider when designing in a mobile context – building the base of your application using web standards, and layering interactions on top of that base. Ultimately, your application will be up and running in a native wrapper so it can be downloaded from app marketplace.
Who should do this course?
This course is aimed at web developers who want to learn how to build websites and apps that take advantage of the functionality available in the latest generation of mobile devices. You will learn the fine art of app-ifying your website to behave like a mobile application.
Pre-requisites
Working knowledge of HTLM5, CSS3 and JavaScript is a pre-requisite for this course. Prior to attending this course, participants should have completed our HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript course or have equivalent skills.
Course Dates
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Sydney Class Dates
Level 11, 32 Walker Street, North Sydney , NSW 2060
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Melbourne Class Dates
Level 12, 379 Collins Street, Melbourne , VIC 3000
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Brisbane Class Dates
Level 6, 371 Queen Street, Brisbane , QLD 4000
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Canberra Class Dates
Level 4, 54 Marcus Clarke Street, Canberra , ACT 2601
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Adelaide Class Dates
19 Young Street, Adelaide , SA 5000
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Perth Class Dates
Level 1, 140 St Georges Terrace, Perth , WA 6000
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Unit 1: Introduction to Mobile Web Design
- What does it mean?
- Why does it matter?
- Understanding The Problem with Going Native
- Start at the Beginning
- Understanding Why an App is Not Enough
- Introduction to Frameworks
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Unit 2: Designing for Mobile
- Building a Better Mouse
- Understanding Hover
- Designing for Small Screens
- Cognitive Load
- The Carousel
- Tab Bar
- Lists
- Putting Together a User Profile
- Deciding on a Core Feature Set
- Understanding Sketching and Wire Framing
- Understanding List Structures
- Overview and Detail
- Tying It All Together
- Establishing a Style
- Touchable Interfaces
- Interface Icons
- Typography
- Performance Considerations
- Testing Design
- Reviewing the Design
- Application Icons
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Unit 3: Markup for Mobile
- Working with Styles
- Understanding the Tab Bar
- Understanding the Rows
- Working with Images and Pseudo-elements
- Understanding the Viewport
- Working within Resource Limits
- Progressive Enhancements
- Working with Modernizr
- Building on the Base Styles
- Scalable Images
- Optimising Images
- Dealing with the Media
- Working in Standalone Mode
- Working with Application Icons
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Unit 4: Mobile Specific Properties
- Text Overflow with Ellipsis
- Text Size Adjust
- Tap Highlight Colour
- Touch Callout
- User Select
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Unit 5: Mobile Web Apps
- Frameworks and Libraries
- Debugging Mobile JavaScript
- Events: Simple Touch Events
- Events: Clicking with Feature Detection
- Nifty Links
- Form Field Attributes
- Loading Pages
- Swapping Pages
- Fading with WebKit Animations
- Creating a Slide Transition
- Ajax: Fetching HTML
- Ajax: Ajaxifying Links
- Templating
- Twitter Integration with Templating
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Unit 6: Using Device Features from Web Apps
- Geolocation: Fetching Location
- Geolocation: Handling Errors
- Device Rotation
- Accelerometers: Device Orientation
- Shake Gesture
- Touch Gestures
- Swiping Photo Gallery
- Pinch and Zoom
- The Cache Manifest
- Cache Manifest Events
- Network and Fallback
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Unit 7: Polishing Up the App
- Fixed Menus
- Clicking Faster
- Loading Your Libraries
- Feature Detection
- Widgets
- Dialog Boxes
- Spinners
- Storing Data on the Client
- Local Storage
- Web SQL Database
- Tying Everything Together
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Unit 8: Introducing PhoneGap
- Embedding Web Pages in Native Apps
- PhoneGap
- Callbacks
- Debugging
- Understanding App Marketplace
- Understanding the SDKs
- Installing PhoneGap
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Unit 9: Making Our Application Native
- Understanding the PhoneGap Application
- Icons, Splash Screens, and Names
- PhoneGap JavaScript Helpers
- Alerts
- Network Checks
- Geolocation, Storage, and Device Orientation
- Hardware Buttons
- Accessing the Camera
- Running the Application
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Unit 10: Running a Server for Testing
- Built-in Servers: IIS on Windows
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