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Kendo UI Mobile
What It Can Do And What IT Does Not do
cody lindley
Kendo UI Mobile
What It Can Do And What IT Does Not do
It Can...
It Can be useD for FREE!
(clone it or download on Github, or $ bower install kendo-ui)
site above: http://codylindley.com/jqueryuiwidgets/
It Can be Implemented by Front-end dev's
(i.e. any developer with HTML, CSS, and JS knowledge)
It Can run on almost any device
It Can provide mobile application ARCHITECTURE
(view layouts, views, navigating/routing i.e. SPA features)
It can be used standalone Without SPA tools
(i.e. mobile widgets can run standalone, in any browser, just like the Kendo UI web and dataviz widgets)
It can Be Written declaratively or imperatively
It can Make USe of Kendo MVVM
It can do adaptive platform rendering
It can Use 1 unifying Theme Across all platforms
(aka the flat theme)
It can be Written the AngularJS Way
(using custom directives, which are provided)
It can do icons
It can abstract touch events
It can be used as a source for hybrid native apps
It can DO a Lot!
- Single Page Applications - What is it?
- Declarative JavaScript - What is it? | Learn it
- Kendo UI Mobile Application Logic - Learn it | API
- Kendo UI DataSource - What is it? | Learn it | Docs
- Kendo UI Templates - What is it? | Learn it | Docs
- Kendo MVVM - What is it? | learn it | Docs
- Kendo UI Mobile AngularJS Intergration - Learn it
- Kendo UI Mobile Demo App (sushi app) - Source
It dosen't...
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It doesn’t create native hybrid apps (i.e. webview apps)
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It doesn’t access native api’s
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It doesn’t offer a developer environment (the browser is the environment)
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It doesn’t offer debugging tools (other than what is in the browsers)
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It doesn’t offer testing tools
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It doesn’t help you deploy to app stores
Kendo UI Mobile: What It Can And Can’t Do For You
By Telerik DevRel
Kendo UI Mobile: What It Can And Can’t Do For You
Kendo UI offers a specific set of mobile widgets and a SPA-like framework for building phone and tablet applications for a browser or webview. In this talk, I am going to introduce and examine what it can and can’t do for you. It is my intention that you leave this talk with a robust understanding of the Kendo UI mobile offering and how it might best fit into a mobile development strategy.
