Course Details

Would you like to create mobile apps that can run on iPhone, iPad, Android, Balckberry and Windows phone? This course is a great way to learn how to do that without learning 5 different skills to achieve the feat.

This course will train you in imagining, designing, building and optimizing a cross-platform mobile app using the very latest HTML5 standards. In this course, you will also learn the following skills in web and mobile development:
•    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.
A new session of each course starts monthly. If you are enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please make sure to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.