Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
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Jonathan Stark, a mobile and web application developer, has released his book titled ‘Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript’, online under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.
Book Description:
Now web designers and developers can join the iPhone app party without having to learn Cocoa’s Objective-C programming language. It’s true: You can write iPhone apps quickly and efficiently using your existing skills with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This book shows you how with lots of detailed examples, step-by-step instructions, and hands-on exercises.
- Learn how to build iPhone apps with standard web tools
- Refactor a traditional website into an iPhone web app
- Hook into advanced iPhone features (e.g. accelerometer, geolocation, vibration, and sound) with JavaScript
- Do most of your development with the operating system of your choice
You can read the entire book online or purchase pre-order it at Oreilly.com










October 13th, 2009 at 8:13 am
I’ve had the pleasure of helping review and assist with Jonathan’s book — there are several sections dedicated to my jQTouch framework. Overall it’s an amazing resource for web developers.
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:43 am
This is excellent. I’ll be reading this book from today. I don’t really want to bother learning objective C.