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

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.

Key Features

Learn the basics of developing mobile applications using 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

Book DescriptionWith 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 in no time at all and provide your user with a native look and feel.Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API helps you to understand the concept of building mobile applications using HTML5 based frameworks, specifically Kendo UI Mobile. It teaches you in a simple step-by-step manner how to create a service backend layer using 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 using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API. Integrate them in the right way using extensible and maintainable JavaScript code.Starting with the basics of the Kendo UI platform, learn how to build a real world mobile application from scratch. You will explore the Kendo UI framework elements and integrate the sample mobile application with the ASP.NET Web API service. One of the most important things that you will learn from this book is how to organize your code using the JavaScript Revealing Module Pattern. You will also take a journey through Kendo UI Mobile widgets with lots of code samples hosted in jsFiddle. At the end of this book, you will 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 Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API will help you improve your mobile application development skills using hands-on examples, and will help you address the common problems faced by beginners as well as experienced web programmers. What you will learn

Learn the concepts behind building mobile applications using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
Build HTTP based services using ASP.NET Web API
Secure ASP.NET Web API services
Integrate mobile applications with ASP.NET Web API
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 using jsFiddle examples
Organize your JavaScript code using the Revealing Module Pattern

Who this book is forIf you are a web applications developer new to mobile applications development, then this book is for you. You will also benefit from this book if you have experience in mobile applications development and would like to explore the Kendo UI. A basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and jQuery is desirable to follow this book.