Stovall T. - Drupal 7 Mobile Web Development Beginner’s Guide [2012, PDF/EPUB, ENG]

Preface

Chapter 1: When is a Phone Not a Phone?
"Dumb" phones
"Smart-er" phones
Smart phones
Tablets
WebKit
Mobile-ize me!
What is mobile?
The "One Design" myth
Mobile simulators
Time for action – installing an Android development package
iOS
Time for action – installing the Mac OS developer's package
Summary

Chapter 2: Setting up a Local Development Environment
Drupallo's Pizza Kitchen
Averting disaster
A word about platforms
Time for action – downloading the SCM client for Mac
Cygwin and GIT for Microsoft Windows
Time for action – installing a development environment using Windows and Cygwin
Text editors for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows
Serving web pages on your computer
MAMP
Time for action – configuring our first virtual host
Time for action – changing the default configuration for MAMP
WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP)
Time for action – installing WAMP
Drush and Drush Make
Time for action – installing Drush and Drush Make for Mac OS X
Time for action – installing Drush for Windows
Building a Drupal website with Drush Make
Time for action – building a Drupal install from a make file
The local database
Time for action – creating a database
Summary

Chapter 3: Selecting the Right Domain for your Mobile Site
Once upon a website…
One ring to rule them all
Domain Access versus Multisite
Time for action – installing Domain Access module
Domain management
Time for action – configuring Apache
Bootstrapping the domain
Time for action – bootstrapping the Domain Access module
Introduction to the Features module
Time for action – installing and creating your first feature
Time for action – updating the feature with new settings
Deployment—best practices
Time for action – code check-in and deployment
Pushing out features
Time for action – check in your features module
Summary

Chapter 4: Introduction to a Theme
Progressive Enhancement
HTML5 and the simplified DOCTYPE
New HTML5 semantic elements
Drupal 6 versus Drupal 7 theming
Time for action – installing the default mobile theme
The simple life
Media queries
Time for action – personalizing the mobile theme
Redirecting mobile clients
Time for action – writing JavaScript redirection for our theme
Give them what you think they need until they tell you what they want
Behave yourself
Drupal behaviors
Time for action – redirection with a cookie to remember state
Summary

Chapter 5: A Home with a View
The Context and Display suite modules
Time for action – creating a mobile-friendly home page
Pushing changes from one environment to another
Time for action – updating the Home Page feature
The menu
Time for action – creating the menu content types
Bundling up the changes
Time for action – bundling the changes into a package
Summary

Chapter 6: The Elephant in the Room: Audio, Video, and Flash Media
Flash and iOS
Incorporating video into your web content
Time for action – embedding media files
Time for action – adding content
A word about encoding
"I did it my way"
Charting and graphs
Time for action – graphing a view
Summary

Chapter 7: Location, Location, Location
Geolocation
The navigator.geolocation object
Time for action – adding location data to nodes
From address to longitude and latitude
Time for action – geocoding a node's location data
The close2u module
Time for action – downloding and enabling the close2u module
Finishing the page
Time for action – finding the closest franchise the hard way
Summary

Chapter 8: Services with a Smile
Using Drupal to power your native application
Time for action – creating a REST service
Time for action – testing your new REST service
APIs: The future of the interactive web
Customized services
Time for action – custom REST service formatter
jQuery Mobile
Time for action – using jQM as our base theme
jQuery Mobile JavaScript Events
Time for action – the AJAX login form
Summary

Chapter 9: Putting it Together
Display Suite
Hooks, styles, and build modes
Time for action – retheming nodes for our jQuery mobile theme
Time for action – adding theming to the rendered node
Beyond core menu items
Time for action – customized menu attributes
Fonts
Time for action – adding fonts
Summary

Chapter 10: Tabula Rasa: Nurturing your Site for Tablets
The human touch
The event-driven model
Touch and go
The main event
Time for action – adding a swipe advance to the home page
The changing landscape (or portrait)
"Starting over" or "Everything you know about designing websites is wrong"
Wire framing made easy
Drupal 7 Commerce module
Time for action – the one true theme
Time for action – creating a product
A room with a viewport
Time for action – setting the viewport with JavaScript
Time for action – advanced media queries for tablets
Summary

Chapter 11: A Home in the Clouds
Problems introduced by modern websites
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Time for action – setting up AWS and RightScale
Time for action – using an AMI to create a server
Time for action – Jenkins builds our site
Summary

Appendix: Pop Quiz Answers

Index