The Safari-exclusive applications for these Apple devices assemble elements of Web 2.0 apps, traditional desktop apps, multimedia video and audio, and the cell phone. this book shows you how to integrate these various elements with key design concepts and principles in order to develop a highly usable interface for the touch screen.

You'll learn to use existing open-source libraries in your code, imitate the overall look and feel of built-in Apple applications, and migrate existing Web 2.0 apps and sites to this new mobile platform. Along the way, you'll discover how to design a user interface that is optimized for the touch-screen display. By the end of the book, you'll feel untouchable as you create a custom mobile application from scratch.

What you will learn from this book:

How to design and implement an iPhone user interface
Ways to enable and optimize web sites for iPhone and iPod touch.
Tips for handling touch interactions and capturing javascript events
Specific CSS styles that are useful for developing applications
Techniques for integrating applications with core iPhone services including Phone, Mail, and Goolge Maps
How to minimize constraints and maximize bandwidth and app-execution performance
Methods of debugging Mobile Safari applications

Product Details

Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Wrox; 1 edition (January 29, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470251557
ISBN-13: 978-0470251553