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

Chapter 1: Building a Mobile Application Using HTML5 7
Native versus hybrid versus mobile websites 8
HTML5 and CSS3 9
HTML5 – Steve Jobs made me famous 9
Main features of HTML5 10
Who is behind the HTML5 specification? 10
A sample HTML5 page 11
DOCTYPE and character encodings 12
Some new HTML5 tags 12
CSS3 14
Kendo UI – building cross-browser apps made easy 16
Kendo UI widgets 17
Kendo UI architecture 17
Kendo UI Web 17
Kendo UI DataViz 18
Kendo UI Mobile 19
Server wrappers 19
HTML5 mobile web application design guidelines 20
Summary 21
Chapter 2:Building Your First Mobile Application 23
Preparing the development machine 23
Ripple Emulator 24
Installing Ripple Emulator 24
First Kendo UI Mobile application 27
Views and Layouts 31
NavBar 31
Application initialization 32
A real-world mobile app – Movie Tickets 32

The Home screen 33
The TabStrip widget 34
Transitions 37
Navigation 37
The Remote view 38
The Back button 39
Looking into the rendered HTML 41
View loading and HTML element IDs 42
Application object 43
The Initial view 44
Loading text 44
Forcing platform 44
Hiding and showing the loading animation 44
Getting a reference of the current view 45
Navigating to a view 45
UI experience across platforms 46
The Flat view 47
Summary 49
Chapter 3: Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API 51
Creating a Web API service 52
Hosting using IIS 56
Routing 58
Customizing the Web API routing 60
Parameter binding 61
Model binding 62
Formatters 62
Building a service for the Movie Tickets application 63
Adding a controller 66
Content Negotiation 68
The Advanced Rest Client Chrome extension 69
The Accept header 70
The Content-type header 71
The Accept-charset header 71
An Image/PDF file as response 72
Securing Web API 73
Authentication 73
Basic authentication 74
Authentication using message handlers 74
Implementing authentication 75
Authentication in action 79
Authorization 80
Using AuthorizeAttribute 81