jQuery Mobile is a user interface system based on HTML5. It is designed to make responsive mobile apps and websites that are accessible across all devices, including desktop, tablet and mobile.
It is a web framework that is touch optimized, more specifically a JavaScript library. This framework is compatible with other mobile app frameworks and platforms such as Worklight, PhoneGap and more. The theming framework of jQuery is extremely powerful and allows its developers to customize certain CSS aspects and color schemes in the user interface feature. The Theme Roller Application of jQuery is mainly used for customization of these features by the developers, and they create a highly branded experience through these.
Each theme can assimilate up to 26 color swatches, which are unique and consists of button states, header bar, and a content body. If different swatches are combined with one another, the developers can get a wide range of visual effects, which they could never get from a single swatch.
There are some very common misconceptions about the jQuery mobile. jQuery mobile is not the not the mobile version of jQuery, and the concept behind this is below.
jQuery Mobile is not:
> An SDK for packaging native Web apps
> A perfect solution for all websites and mobile apps.
> An alternative for the jQuery’s mobile browser.
> A JS framework
jQuery Mobile provides a powerful theming framework that allows developers to customize color schemes and certain CSS aspects of the UI features. Developers can use the jQuery Mobile Theme Roller Application to customize these appearances and create highly branded experiences. After developing a theme in the Theme Roller Application, programmers can download a custom CSS file and include it in their project to use their custom theme.
> The themes can be customized through dfdsframework.
> The underlying codebase can automatically be scaled to any screen with responsive design techniques.
> jQuery is compatible with all major mobile platforms and desktop browsers. It is compatible with Android, Windows Phone, iOS, WebOS, Blackberry, Symbian.
> Lightweight in size and depends minimum on the images that manages its speed.
> Modular architecture
> The approach of progressive enhancement brings functionality and content across all devices.
> User interface widgets are unified for the native controls that are enhanced by the common controls with touch optimization. They are easy to use.
Sidr : This jQuery plugin is for creating “hidden side menus”. A single page can have several menus, which can offer several remote or existing methods for loading the content.
MenuItems : This dynamic jQuery menu plugin is helpful while creating responsive navigation widgets.
MaterialMenu : For creating a responsive menu on website, MaterialMenu is helpful.
Responsive Tabbed Navigation : An easy to handle and easy to use tabbed navigation, which supports both vertical and horizontal menu positioning, is responsive tabbed navigation. This jQuery and CSS powered plugin is optimized for mobile devices as well.
PGW Menu : This is an SEO compliant responsive menu, which is fully customizable with the incorporated css file.
jQuery Slimmenu : This lightweight jQuery plugin is made to fabricate multilevel and responsive navigation menus. With slimMenu, the struggle to create responsive menus due to media queries can be prevented
jQuery Sliding Menu : This plugin is a responsive side navigation menu, which comes in a list style form.
Responsive Tabs : Responsive Tabs offers responsive tab functionality. The tabs of this jQuery plugin covert to an accordion when it accesses the CSS breakpoint. This plugin can be used as a solution for displaying tabs on desktop and mobile devices in an elegant manner.
Mmenu : This is the best jQuery plugin for on and off canvas menus, which looks apps with sliding sub-menus for you app and website. A wide array of extensions, add-ons and options made this plugin extremely customizable.
Flex Nav : FkexNav is a jQuery plugin for responsive menus. It is used for device agnostic and flexible approach using JS and media queries to make a decent menu for keyboard tab input accessibility hover reveal and touch. It has a number of nested submenus.
The mantra to which jQuery is stuck to is “write less, do more”. The jQuery framework, rather than writing unique applications for different mobile devices, allows the developer to design a single but highly responsive app or website that can work across all the devices.
Manish Jain is the co-founder and Managing Director at Konstant Infosolutions. He is responsible for the overall operations of the company and has played a major role in bringing Konstant up from its humble beginnings and, with his immense energy and drive, transforming it into a globally trusted name in IT solutions.
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