Development done right, with an extra touch
In the first article in this series I described a way to redirect iPhone clients to our mobile application. Now I will describe how to build a registration application using JQTouch.
A typical web application sends the content of each page, but in this model we deliver the whole application and only parts of the document are active at one time. To start, install JQTouch. I put it in js/
JQTouch is a web framework built on JQuery and intended to make mobile sites render through a webview and operate like a native mobile application.
We’ve used JQTouch in a couple of different scenarios, such as a web site interface for iPhone and running on top of phonegap to build a standalone application. I’ll describe how we used it to provide a mobile interface for sneakonthelot.com.
Even though the iPhone specific CSS is not perfect in Rhodes, it can be easily customized to improve the look of the app and make it similar to a native one. But there’s another important aspect for the look & feel of a native iPhone app: animations (transitions between views) and this is missing in Rhodes.
We tried to fix this by using jQTouch, a jQuery plugin for mobile web development. It provides all kind of animations that you would expect from a native iPhone app: horizontal and vertical slide, flip, pop, fade. You can even create your own animations. It also features swipe detection.
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