Building Browser Apps with Google Chrome

• Introduction
  • About This Book
  • Prerequisites
  • A Note on Changes in Packaged Apps for Google Chrome
  • Getting Help
• Setting up a development environment
  • Selecting a text editor
  • Creating a working directory
• Creating A “Hello World” application
  • Manifest file
  • HTML file
  • Displaying a message in a web page
• Using Bootstrap in a Chrome packaged app
  • Adding the Bootstrap toolkit
  • Adding some UI elements
• Setting up a testing environment
  • Setting up qUnit to run within a web page
  • Simple tests
  • Add tests for text field/button part of Hello World example
  • Resources
• Setting up a version control environment
  • Creating a new Git archive
  • Adding to the archive
  • Resources
• Creating a number guessing game
  • Requirements (what should the game do?)
  • Number guessing game description
  • Number guessing game requirements
  • Application design
  • Creating the initial working directory
  • User interface changes
  • Separating Javascript logic into a separate file
  • Creating a Javascript object
  • Adding data and functions to the Javascript object
  • Adding testing support
  • Testing the range check
  • Testing the random number to start the game
  • Testing the game response
  • Testing the user guess
  • Testing the game response again
  • Final integration
• Creating a simple RSS reader
  • Initial UI Changes
  • Retrieving a RSS Feed
  • Parsing the <channel> element
  • Parsing the <item> element
  • Displaying a RSS feed
  • Processing multiple feeds
  • Adding a progress bar
  • Saving RSS feed URLs in memory
  • Adding the Manage Feeds user interface
  • Real-world testing
  • Resources
• Distributing your application
  • Packaging your app
  • Distributing your app
  • Promoting your app
  • Conclusion