Kendo UI Cookbook

Over 50 recipes to help you rapidly build rich and dynamic user interfaces for web and mobile platforms.

Overview

• Create rich interfaces for the Web using the Kendo UI application framework and various sets of widgets that come packaged in the library
• Build web applications for the mobile platform by providing a native look and feel on iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Phone, without having to worry about maintaining separate codebases for each platform
• Leverage HTML5-based DataViz widgets in the Kendo UI library to build charts and dashboards

In Detail

Kendo UI is a one-stop library that allows you to build applications for web and mobile platforms using HTML5 and JavaScript. The library includes several widgets that allow you to build compelling web applications rapidly. Building web applications for web and mobile platforms using modern web technologies is now easy with the Kendo UI library. This cookbook contains practical recipes that you can apply in your everyday projects, and build compelling applications effortlessly. It gets you started with the application framework and then guides you through various widgets that you can readily use in your project with minimum configuration. It also provides recipes that you can use to build web applications for various mobile platforms while maintaining a single codebase.

What you will learn from this book

• Get to grips with the basics of the Kendo UI application framework
• Use various widgets such as Grid, TreeView, Editor, PanelBar, Modal Window, and File uploader, and customize your application to meet the business requirements
• Build web applications for the mobile platform and provide a native look and feel on iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone 8
• Utilize the data visualization components such as charts and dashboard widgets to build visually compelling and interactive applications

Approach

This book is an easy-to-follow guide full of hands-on examples that allows you to learn and build visually compelling web applications using the Kendo UI library.

Who this book is written for

This book will do wonders for web developers having knowledge of HTML and Javascript and want to polish their skills in building applications using the Kendo UI library.