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    Developing Mobile Web ArcGIS Applications
    Developing Mobile Web ArcGIS Applications
    Developing Mobile Web ArcGIS Applications
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    Developing Mobile Web ArcGIS Applications

    By Matthew Sheehan

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    About This Book
    • Create multi-utility apps for mobiles using ArcGIS Server quickly and easily
    • Start with the basics and move through to creating advanced mobile ArcGIS apps
    • Plenty of development tips accompanying links to functional maps to help you as you learn

    This guide is invaluable to those just starting out with GIS development but will also benefit GIS professionals wishing to expand their development skills to include mobile apps.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateFeb 27, 2015
    ISBN9781784392000
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      Developing Mobile Web ArcGIS Applications - Matthew Sheehan

      Table of Contents

      Developing Mobile Web ArcGIS Applications

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

      Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more

      Why subscribe?

      Free access for Packt account holders

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Introduction to Mobile Web ArcGIS Development

      Screen size

      Interacting with mobile applications

      From clickable to tappable

      New data input and collection methods

      Providing interaction feedback

      Designing for mobile

      Simplicity and intuition

      Layout

      Orientation

      Styling

      Mobile targeted functionality

      Focused mobile applications

      Target audience GIS versus non-GIS users

      Fast responding mobile applications

      Working with mobile browsers

      Web, native, and hybrid mobile applications

      Mobile frameworks, toolkits, and libraries

      Bootstrap

      PhoneGap

      Summary

      2. Understanding Mobile Frameworks and APIs

      Esri ArcGIS JavaScript API

      Dojo and jQuery mobile

      Dojo

      Dojo Widgets and Plugins

      jQuery Mobile

      Dojo and Esri's ArcGIS API for JavaScript

      Bootstrap and Responsive design

      The Geolocation API

      Summary

      3. Building Your First Mobile ArcGIS Application

      Development and coding review

      JavaScript development tools

      WebKit and browsers

      Web server setup

      The ArcGIS API for JavaScript API

      ArcGIS map layers

      Listening for map events

      JavaScript Geolocation API

      Summary

      4. Advancing the Basic Mobile ArcGIS Application

      Getting started

      Adding popular tools

      Feature popups

      Adding a legend

      Finding features

      Address search

      Summary

      5. Providing Cross-device Support with Responsive Design

      Approaches to cross-device support

      The magic of style sheets

      Responsive design using Bootstrap

      Adding responsive page elements

      Responsive tools

      Summary

      6. Integration with ArcGIS Online

      Introduction

      ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Online

      ArcGIS Online basics

      Named Users and Groups

      Webmaps

      OAuth authentication

      Building an ArcGIS Online mobile application

      Summary

      7. Developing Hybrid ArcGIS Mobile Applications with PhoneGap

      Introducing PhoneGap

      PhoneGap setup

      Test Build

      Generating an Android certificate

      Developing hybrid ArcGIS mobile applications

      Additional code examples

      Plugins

      PhoneGap Build

      Summary

      Index

      Developing Mobile Web ArcGIS Applications

      Developing Mobile Web ArcGIS Applications

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      First published: February 2015

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      Credits

      Author

      Matthew Sheehan

      Reviewers

      Mark Cederholm

      Andy Gup

      Antti Kajanus

      Noah Sager

      Commissioning Editor

      Kartikey Pandey

      Acquisition Editor

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      Proofreaders

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      Cover Work

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      About the Author

      Matthew Sheehan is the founder and principal of WebMapSolutions (http://www.webmapsolutions.com/). He has over 20 years of experience working with both Esri and open source GIS technologies. Much of his current focus is on helping to expand the understanding and use of GIS. Using web technology, he is working with his technical team to build flexible ArcGIS solutions that can be integrated with existing enterprise systems. Disconnected use of GIS in the browser is a key part of this work.

      Matthew has a bachelor's degree in geography from University of London and a master's degree in Applied GIS from the University of Utah.

      About the Reviewers

      Mark Cederholm, GISP, has over 20 years of experience in developing GIS applications using various Esri technologies, from Arc/Info AML to ArcObjects to ArcGIS Runtime and Web SDKs. He lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.

      Andy Gup is a developer evangelist with Esri who focuses on building Mobile web and native Android map applications. He works on everything from small websites to enterprise systems, and he is also involved in a number of open source projects. You can check out his blog at http://www.andygup.net or reach him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/agup.

      Antti Kajanus is a Finnish programmer who is very interested in mobile development and focuses on .NET client technologies. For the last 4 years, he has been creating customer solutions that are based on ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Online. For the first 3 years, he was working as a software architect at Esri, Finland and after that he joined Esri's ArcGIS Runtime for the .NET development team. Currently, he lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

      He is an active presenter and loves to talk about ArcGIS application development and development practices. He's also a familiar face at Esri's Developer Summit conferences. If he's not building awesome GIS technology or applications, you can most likely find him roaming the Scottish mountains.

      I would like to thank Packt Publishing and Matthew Sheehan for spreading the joy of ArcGIS development. I would also like to thank Nidhi Joshi for keeping the review process in control and for trying to keep me on schedule.

      Noah Sager is a writer of code and prose and he is based out of a tiny mountain town in southern California. Originally from New Hampshire, he got a BSc in biology from McGill University and an MA in geography from Chicago State University. He recently received a GIS certificate from CSU and the TEFL Certificate from Literacy Works. He's worked in a variety of fields ranging from behavioral ecology to dairy farming, but it's GIS that he's truly passionate about. Currently, he supports GIS developers who are working with web and mobile applications and specialize in JavaScript, Flex, and iOS (Objective-C/Swift).

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      Preface

      Mobile is transforming the GIS industry. Today, the demand from users of mobile devices for maps and location-based information is skyrocketing. ArcGIS is the most widely used GIS platform, with JavaScript as the most popular ArcGIS API. Esri's JavaScript team have been building a rich set of tools for developing ArcGIS Web applications.

      This book will teach you how to build web-based mobile applications using the ArcGIS API for JavaScript.

      What this book covers

      Chapter 1, Introduction to Mobile Web ArcGIS Development, covers some of the core elements of developing mobile ArcGIS applications. We discuss how mobile web development is different from traditional web development. These differences include screen size, user interaction, design, functionality, and user and performance considerations. Mobile browsers and different development frameworks are also considered in this chapter.

      Chapter 2, Understanding Mobile Frameworks and APIs, discusses some of the basic tools that are used for mobile web development; this includes popular frameworks and design paradigms. Dojo and jQuery mobile are both covered. In addition, simple code examples are included. We finish the chapter with an introduction to responsive, multi-device design and the Geolocation API.

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