Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for Android

Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for Android teaches the essential HTML5 and JavaScript skills you need to make great apps for the Android platform and browser.

This book guides you through the creation of a mobile web app. You'll put the HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript skills you learn into practice, giving you invaluable first-hand experience that will serve you well as you go on to develop your own web apps for Android smartphones and tablets.

Throughout this book, you will learn new skills and bring these altogether to create a web app that runs on the Android platform as well as other mobile platforms.

HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript are the chisels web designers and developers use to design and build great web sites.  But, you can build great Web apps. But, how do you use web-standards based apps that can run on mobile devices like Android smartphones and tablets? Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for Android guides you through learning the essential HTML5 and JavaScript skills needed for the Android platform and browsers. In this book, you get the HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript skills necessary for creating your first Web apps from the ground up for, or that run effectively on Android smartphones, tablets and other devices with browsers. Throughout book, you apply the knowledge and skills just gained, and bring these altogether to create a fairly complex multimedia web app that runs on the Android platform as well as even other mobile platforms. This book is Android 4.0 compliant.

HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript are the chisels web designers and developers use to design and build great web sites.  But, you can build great Web apps. But, how do you use web-standards based apps that can run on mobile devices like Android smartphones and tablets? Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for Android guides you through learning the essential HTML5 and JavaScript skills needed for the Android platform and browsers. In this book, you get the HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript skills necessary for creating your first Web apps from the ground up for, or that run effectively on Android smartphones, tablets and other devices with browsers. Throughout book, you apply the knowledge and skills just gained, and bring these altogether to create a fairly complex multimedia web app that runs on the Android platform as well as even other mobile platforms. This book is Android 4.0 compliant.

Gavin Williams is a software engineer and is the Technical Director/Founder of Fishrod Interactive. He has been in the web industry as a front end, back end and iOS developer for several years and has worked for companies and agencies such as Prime Business Web, Avante Garde Associates, Agency.com, Dare Digital, Proximity London, Channel 4 and British Sky Broadcasting. He is also a proud owner of a British Interactive Media Award for his work on controlling remote control cars over WiFi from the iPhone, iPad and Mac.Gavin Williams started his career at the age of 14 creating content management systems in PHP as a freelance developer whilst still at school. He grasped Front end Development by the horns whilst at Agency.com and Channel 4 working for clients such as IKEA, British Airways, Channel 5 and BT.He later went onto Bournemouth University to study Interactive Media Production to learn the theoretical side of design, development and narratives through technology.