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 and smartphone. My aim is to use JQuery mobile to do this and then use Phone-gap to port it to various native applications that can be accessible through various platform such as android, iPhone, etc. I was wondering if there is any tutorial or help that one can get. It will be very useful if someone can point me to something similar that I can build upon. Please note that I want to use Jquery from the scratch.

Your help in this regard will be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

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