Summary

In this chapter, we learned why it is important as developers to embrace the mobile web and ensure that our apps support it. We began with a brief history of the mobile web and the constraints still placed upon developers like us to ensure an optimal user experience when viewing our sites through a mobile browser. We also learned how to emulate the common mobile browsers from our desktop and received a glimpse of what Microsoft has provided in support of the mobile web with the new ASP.NET MVC 4 tooling, Visual Studio 2012, and .NET 4.5.

In the next chapter, we will create the shell for our app—a homebrew recipe sharing app called BrewHow—and configure our environment to run the app within an emulator.