Creating Mobile Apps with HTML5

Creating Mobile Apps with HTML5
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Instructor-Led Course
Hours: 24
Duration of Access: 6 weeks
Start Dates: May 15, Jun 19, Jul 17, Aug 21

About This Course

Do you want to make mobile apps that run on iPhone and iPad, as well as on Android, Blackberry, and Windows Phone? Sure you do! Do you want to learn five different programming languages? Of course you don't!

Fortunately, you're about to discover a better way to build apps. In this course, you'll learn how to imagine, design, build, and optimize a cross-platform mobile app using the very latest HTML5 standards. The result will be a mobile app that's fast and runs on just about any smartphone or tablet computer.

You'll also learn some of the most sought-after skills in Web and mobile development, including:

  • HTML5 and how it's different from previous versions of HTML.
  • CSS3, the layout and styling language of the mobile Web.
  • Scripting with JavaScript and several JavaScript frameworks and techniques such as jQuery, jQuery Mobile, and AJAX.
  • How to use Web services such as Google Maps in your app.
  • How to determine an app's user location by accessing the built-in geolocation capabilities of the user's smartphone.
  • How to use Web Application Programming Interfaces (Web APIs) to combine different Web services to create mobile mashups.
  • How to optimize your app for performance to make sure that it runs as fast as possible for your users.
  • How to convert your HTML5 apps into native apps that you can submit to app stores such as Apple's App Store, Google Play, and Blackberry App World.

By the end of the course, you'll have built your first mobile web app, and you'll be on your way to making your dream of being a successful mobile app developer a reality!

About The Instructor

Chris Minnick

This course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your questions. The instructor for this course will be Chris Minnick.

Chris Minnick is the CEO of Minnick, LLC. He teaches and consults on the mobile Web and has written books and articles on a wide range of Internet-related topics since the mid-1990s. His latest book, WebKit for Dummies, teaches how to develop cross-platform mobile apps using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript in conjunction with the WebKit browser engine that's present on nearly every smartphone and tablet. In addition to being one of the most experienced Web developers to have never held a proper job, Chris is an award-winning winemaker and an avid (albeit amateur) swimmer, musician, and tinkerer. More information is available on his blog: www.chrisminnick.com.

Review

Excellent course! The old traditional method of knocking out a web page with little or no programming planning or forethought is over. Web design has taken on a new meaning where "design" is now a required element. HTML5 is the next tool where the design is for the mobile device first, and then expand up to the less and less used desktop computer. Having created many web sites for many customers in the past, I have learned in this course that I have to come up to speed with the new requirements available in HTML5 and CSS3 and design for the mobile device. This course was able to provide the knowledge for that next step.
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