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• This highlights the proЫem we're trying to overcome. When the page ls vlewed оп а small screen the font size is all wrong, making the content essentially unusaЫe • Loadlng ln the CSS shows our design is а single column wit h а couple of headlines, an intro and some body text below

04 Approaching the proЫem Th e key

proЫem

06

we're trying to address is

ensuring that text remains appropr iately sized when the window is resized to

а

larger o r smaller width. The

desktop browser, but massively too

and max width, and we've restr icted our w idth Ьig

07

adding an event listener for the

our fonts should

Ье .

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а

expressed as

some code that analyses the width of the window, then

now apply this to the .intro text Ьу using jQLJery's CSSO

а

percentage of the base width. so let's

method to target and set the fon t size property

proportion of the m inim um and maximum tha t we'd like to d isplay at. Grab the code from the disc and add it to JavaScript document to get started .

001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008

$(document).ready(function(){ maxwidth = 1200; minwidth = 480; parafontsize = 1.4; 11 Add your interactive code here $(window).resize(function(){ width = parselnt($(this) .width()); if (width
а

То

fix this. we need to set it prog rammatically.

001 pfontsize = parseFloat((width/ minwidth))+"em''; 002 $("article р . intro") .css({fontSize:pfontsiz e,lineHeight:(parseFloat(pfontsize)+(parafontsi ze- parseFloat(pfontsize)))+"em"}); 003 }) ; 004 }) ;

calculation for the size of our text

window being resized. and inside this listener we'll add uses it to calculate the size of our text, LJsing

the CSS.

variaЫe

001 pfontsize = parseFloat((width/ minwidth))+''em'';

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to define the min

Ьig оп а

font size accord ing to the size of the window.

We'll start off

varia Ы es

use this width to ca lculate how

sma rtphone screen. We'll use jQuery to help us set the

05

We've already set up

all sizes. This is because line·height is set absolutely in

to fa ll between those two extremes. Now we need to

head ing font. for example. m ight look great at 4em in а

Some basic maths

09

Adjusting line height When we preview our code it works nicely. but there·s а sma ll issLJe that becomes apparent as we go to extremes of text size. The lead ing d oesn't suit the text at

Now we·ve got

по

real control over the starting

size of the text. This makes the code less useful than it should

001 if (width>maxwidth) width=maxwidth; 002 pfontsize = parseFloat((width/ minwidth))+''em''; 003 $("article р. intro". css({fontSize:pfontsize}); 004 }) ;

Set а base size Ье .

We'll set up

а

new

va r ia Ы e

to ac t as

а

m ultiplier for the calcu lated resu lt. So. starting with va lue of 14. the final font size w ill

Ье а

а

mu ltiple of 1.4.

001 parafontsize = 1.4; 002 // Add your interactive code here 003 $(window) . resize(function(){ 004 width = parselnt($(this).width()); 005 if (widthmaxwidth) width=maxwidth; 007 pfontsize = parseFloat(parafontsize*(width/minwidth))+''em'';

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and end to create the fu пctio п /p l ug - i п . а п d to

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001 var defaults = { 002 mul tiplier: 1.4, 003 lineheight : 1. 4, 004 minWidth : 320, 005 maxWidth: 1200 006 }; 007 008 var uoptions = $. extend(defaults, options);

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plug -in settings.

Сору

substitute the settings prev iously. Your

fi пa l

foпt

size. lnstead of using questio п .

to use the obj reference. and we the correct

variaЫe

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names for the font size too. Apply

the code below to put this in place.

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We need to use the same formula we devised usiпg

The final step here is to replicate our o riginal

explicit calls to the element s i п

16 Convert the maths

for the mockup, but apply it more genera lly

Output results

code that actua lly sets the

looks like the code below.

(function($){ $.fn.pluginName = function(options) { var defaults = { property1: 1, property2: "something

001 obj = $(this); 002 width = parselnt(obj.width()); 003 if (widthuoptions.maxWidth) width=uoptions .maxWidth; 005 fontSize = parseFloat(uoptions. multiplier*(width/uoptions.minWidth))+»em'';

o ptions before app l y i пg the settings.

to the end of а selected element. abstrac ti пg

mLJ itiplier. l i п e-heig h t and

001 002 003 004 005

it's applied to. Our plug-in code accepts ап

options for the plug-in that w ill provide

the text-resizing code. For flexibility, we

re turп

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how the fu nction w ill affect the

property of the fu п ct i on so they're

pass

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its

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we also want to

12

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to have

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and paste our orig ina l code and

call it from our script. Bear

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code in from

separate JavaScript

docume п t.

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Code library

to explicitly invoke it. Thankfully this is simple, as we са п call it just as we do with any bu ilt-in function. Add the code below i п s i de а docume пt.ready() fu п c tio п .

The completed plug-in

001

We've writ ten our code as а jQuery plug-in to make it easy to apply to multiple elements. Н еге we break the function down:

S(''article p . intro'') . elastictext({multipl ier:l.l5}); 002 S(''article h2'' ). el astictext({multiplie r : 1 .8,li neheight :1}); 003 $("header h1"). elastictext({multiplier:3.05});

19 Window resizing

То kick off, we create а set

lf you test your page just п оw, you 'll notice that it resizes the text wheп we first load the page, but as we ma п ua l ly resize the w i п dow п oth ing h appe п s- the two do not grow together i п size i п sу п с. This is because о ш code опlу calls the pl u g - i п о п се, and we пееd it to do this w h eп ever а cha пg e is made to the w i п dow. We h aveп't yet dопе a пy thiпg to h a пd le the w iпdow bei пg resized, so let's fix that поw.

20

of default settings to apply to the plug-in if the call doesn't include any passed-in options.

Overcoming the proЫem We

to call our p l ug - i п each time the wiпdowres i zeO eve п t fires We с а п do this simply Ьу add i пg а со ру o f our calls to the plug-in i п side а window.resize eve п t h a пd ler. Apply the code fou п d о п the disc to set this up, апd t heп test the page agai п to ensure that it responds as i п te пded . пееd

The nuts and bolts of the resizing is done here. First we calculate the size to change the font to, and then we apply any changes to the styling.

001 002

024

fontSize = pars eFloat(uoptions . multiplier *(width/uoptions.minWidth))+''em'' ; 025 obj.css({fontSize:fontSize,lineHeight:(parseFl oat(f ontSize)+(uopt i ons . l ineheightparseFl oat(font Size)))+"em''}) ;

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001 002 003 004 005

22

img.elastic { max-width: min-width: width :

1200рх ;

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026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034

}) ; } }) (jQuery);

$(document).ready(function(){

11 Assign the starting sizes S("article р. intro"). elastictext({mul tipl ier :1.15}); 035 $("article h2") . el astictext ({mult iplier : 1 .8,linehe i ght:1}); 036 S("header h1 '' ).elastictext({multiplier:3.05});

037 038

320рх ;

100%;

}

Test and develop

Now we have а fu lly operational jQue ry p lug- i п tha t allows us to crea te e lastic text at will, you should test iп all avai l a Ыe browsers to make sure the multiplier values you've chosen work well. Consider how you could automa te the d iscovery а п d set t i п g of the multiplier va lues Ьу q u eryiпg the CSS for each e l emeпt.

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minWidth;

023

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005

001 f* RESPONSIVE DESIGN WI TH ELASTI C ТЕХТ & I MAGES 002 003 004 (function($){ 005 S.fn . elastictext = f unction(options) { 006 007 008 11 Default options 009 var defaul ts = { multiplier: 1 . 4, 010 lineheight: 1. 4, 011 012 minWidth: 320, 013 maxWidth: 1200 014 }; 01 5 016 11 Assign the settings 017 var uoptions = S.extend(def aul ts, options); 018 return this . each(function(){ 019 020 obj = S(this); 021 width = par sei nt(obj .width()); if (widt h
Each time the window is resized, we'll run the function again to resize the text so it matches with thewidth ofthe window for best results.

11 Each time the window is r esized , recalcul ate the font sizes 039 $(window).resize(function(){ 040 S(''article p.intro''). elast ictext({multipl ier : 1 . 15}); 041 $("article h2") . elastictext({multiplier : 1 . 8,lineh eight:1}); 042 S(''header h1'').el astictext({multiplier:3.05});

043 044

}); });

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cloud-based service. Pho neGap Bu ild , still reta ins the name. With the new release of Dreamweaver

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qu ick to leverage the power of the PhoneGa p Build service into the software. ln case you are not fam iliar

eaver Dreamweaver CS6 and the integrat1on of PhoneGap Build make it easy toolsl tc~c:h

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w ith Pho neGap Build, it is an on line service that allows you to upload an entire HTML5 арр as

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ZIP file and it

w ill. in return. build apps for Android, Blackberry. webOS.

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Symbian. and if you have

а

provisioning profile. IOS as

well. What's great about this service is that you don 't have to insta ll any of those SDK's you get to build

moЬi l e

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your computer and

apps that take advantage of the

native phone's functiona lity. ln this tutorial we are going to show you how to work with the pho ne's camera.

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view. Click the Live the

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to create

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cop ies of files: accept this. Make sure your v iew is set to

preview

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the Reg ister

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w ith your Adobe ID. Fi п al l y click the terms

conditions check boxes

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а пd

hit the Sign ln button.

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choose

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you upload the

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а

of it.

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to

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larger

03- - - -Download the application

The final icon. which is the down-facing arrow, allows the bUilt application to Ье downloaded to the computer so you can transfer the file to the device manually.

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Snap to install lf you have an Android phone. use

а

QR code

reader such as Goog le Gogg les to snap the QR code and then download the link. This will download the арр rig ht to your арр

the

-

Let's go native lt's not the most interesting

арр,

but we

сап

easily change that and make use of some native functiona lity Back in Dreamweaver. delete lines 28 to 62 w hich are the other pages. Delete the footer from the

phone. Once down loaded. install

the information for it can Ье fouпd

09

-

and when ready. click

code and get rid of all the links except the first. Make the link for the first just '#' and change the title as shown.

the Lau nch button on the phone to see it. P.honeGщ~ command because it starts

Cong ratulations: you've made an

~ou are familiar. with usшg any: of the

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11

and insta lled

it on your device l

Control the camera Add the code shown to the head section under

the other script lines. This links to the PhoneGap library. and when the but ton is pressed. calls the phone's native camera function. which brings back the file URI. lf the

10 T~kinga

camera is successful the func tion show_pic is ca lled. if

p1cture

not. the function fa il is called .

Rename the head ing ·camtake'. and in the

<а

href> tag of the code

add the following 'onclick="getPicO:"'. This is going to ca ll some JavaScript code that will take

а

picture using the pho ne's built-in camera. Now add the code shown after the tag, this will place an empty image o n the screen ready to accept the one ta ken w ith the pho ne.

001

002

001 <script type=''text/javascript'' charset="utf-8" src="phonegap . js"X/script> 002 003 functio n getPic() { 004 navigator.camera.getPicture(show_ р1с, fail, { 005 quality : 50 , destinationType: Camera.DestinationType.FILE_URI 006 }) ; 007 }

Success or fail Now add the remaining code shown that gets the picture·s id and stores it in the

va riaЫe

о.-

'image·. The

Ht

URI is passed in as the image source to display. lf there is а

fa i lшe.

s

then the fail function will show an alert w ith IW8

....

с.-

save your file.

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the failure message in it. Now is а rea lly good time to

001 fu nction show_pic(u ri) { 002 var image = document. 003 getEl ementByid('small image'); 004 image . src = ur i; 005 006 } 007 fu nction fai l (msg) { alert(msg); 008 } 009

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Creating icons

Save and resize

lf you look on your phone you w ill see the

Save the image for web as

project has the default name Pho neGap Build not

а

very descriptive name. and the icons are defa ult. Open Photoshop and create

а

new image. 72

х 72рх.

Now add

а

PNG file and name

it 'icon-android-72.png· in the icons fo lder from the previous step. Now resize the image to 48 pixels and save again as 'icon-android-48 .png·. Fina lly resize to 36

your image for the icon and create а new folder in the

pixels and save one last time as

' i con -android -Зб .png·.

root folder from step 1. named 'icons·.

this creates icons for different sized devices.

Tips 1Tricks 1Fixes

15

Арр settings

Make а splash Now inside Photoshop create

х 480рх ,

а

new image, 360

and add your artwork for your splash screen.

Now save this as 'splash.png' in the root fo lder Having splash screen gives

valuaЫe

а

feedback to the user that

something is happening when they launch their арр.

ln the root fo lder you will see

а

file named 'con fig.xml', open this

17 Add the icons

ln order to get the icons to

and change id name to your own. eg ·com .webdesig ner.camtake'.

puЫish

change the name to ·camtake' and change the au thor settings to your

extra lines to the config xml file. These

own. This will now give the right name when we

pu Ы is h

the

арр

aga in,

to the

арр ,

we need to add

lines of code simp ly tell the

арр

а

few

to look in

the icons folder and apply these icons to

but we need to add information about the icons and splash.

the actual арр when uploaded to PhoneGap BLJild. lt's simple bLJt effective .

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001

fnf

--

•

•t

. Setting preferences

19 Rebuildthe

line tells the

А рр

а

sim ilar way to the icons. The next

not to rotate the o rientation and keep

--

002 003 004 005

.......

application

Adding the next lin es of code will add the link to the splash screen in

width=''Зб''

Save the config file no\N and close it to return back

it in portra it mode. The final line tells the арр to ru n at

to the index.html file. Make

fu llscreen so the status ba r that has the bat tery and

sure the Pho neGap Build

sig nal indicator is removed.

Service panel is still open. and if the QR code is still

001
src=''splash.png'' />

v isi Ы e.

click the button to

go back to the Bu ild

name="orientation" />

Service. ln the bottom r ig ht-hand corner click the Rebuild Applica tion button

name="fullscreen" value="true"

to recreate the

Арр .

/>

Picture

20

lnstall and launch Once aga in. wait

а

few moments for the арр to

build and then click o n the QR code icon to d isplay the

UsetheApp

larger QR code. Snap this aga in w ith your QR code

Fina lly we have the арр fully installed and working

the

reader and download the арр in the link. Once

device. click the

downloaded. install and then lau nch the арр. You will

native camera taking software. Take yo ur image as no rmal. and when

see the splash screen fu lly working as the

арр

starts.

'Та kе

оп

Pic ture' button and you will access the phone's

you click o kay to return to your арр, the image w ill Ье displayed .

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