https://www.strathweb.com/categories/jquery-mobile-metro/ Recent content in Jquery Mobile Metro on Strathweb. A free flowing tech monologue. Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 02 May 2012 19:33:49 +0000 https://www.strathweb.com/2012/05/windows-phone-7-sports-application-with-apache-cordova-jquery-mobile-metro-and-espn-api/ Wed, 02 May 2012 19:33:49 +0000 https://www.strathweb.com/2012/05/windows-phone-7-sports-application-with-apache-cordova-jquery-mobile-metro-and-espn-api/ <p>One of the finest news recently has been the announcement of jQuery Mobile Metro theme for WP7. The nice folks at <a href="http://windowsphone.interoperabilitybridges.com/">Windows Phone Interoperability Bridges</a> and Sergei Grebnov have <a href="http://sgrebnov.github.com/jqmobile-metro-theme/">released</a> that (also available as a Nuget package) last week.</p> <p>I immediately thought that this is one of the things that should be definitely checked out - after all jQuery Mobile is a wonderful technology for building robust mobile applications - and jQuery Mobile Metro seems to have so much potential! Coupled with <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/cordova/">Apache Cordova</a> (formerly PhoneGap), it allows us to quickly and easily brew a mobile application that can be deployed to any platform. What happens with Cordova, is that you build your application with HTML5, CSS and Javascript - and then it&rsquo;s packaged into an environment specific package and run as if it was a native application (using an embedded browser control). Things couldn&rsquo;t be any easier.</p> <p>So today, the plan is to build a sports application for Windows Phone 7 - using all the goodies: Apache Cordova, jQuery Mobile Metro and our good friend, <a href="http://developer.espn.com">ESPN API</a>.</p>