Summary

In this chapter, we talked about several tools that will help us on our path to jQuery Mobile development enlightenment.

We saw how easy it is to customize our jQuery Mobile applications with ThemeRoller. We were able to create a theme without touching any CSS code and saw how we can apply that theme to our current project.

You then learned more about Aptana Studio, the IDE of choice for this book, and saw the power of a free IDE that rivals the paid developing software packages. We covered a few recommended customizations and changes that will make developing easier. And finally, while looking at Aptana Studio, we touched briefly on the HTML5 Boilerplate.

Finally, you saw a tool that will allow us to test our applications on a variety of devices to see how they would look on other devices we may not have access to and talked about the importance of testing on the actual device whenever possible.

We will take a look at mobile design and how to make designs look and run better on any mobile device in the next chapter. We will explore feature detection and device detection in depth.

In the chapter that follows, we will look at different techniques that are helpful for developing for the mobile devices. We will look at the responsive web design techniques including media queries, feature and device detection, and much more. We will also be demonstrating how responsive web design can be combined with server-side logic. So see you in the next chapter!