Welcome

This theme provides a Metro user interface for Cordova apps using jQuery Mobile on Windows Phone 7.5.

Live demo

Web demo for the jquerymobile.com site

http://sgrebnov.github.com/jqmobile-metro-theme/samples/jqm-public-demo/index.html

Windows Phone demo app

http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=tbd

Copyrights

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

Components

Metro theme

Metro theme is presented by jquery.mobile.metro.theme.css file and related images folder.

/themes/metro/

Additional plugins

All additional theme plugins are located at /plugins folder

/plugins/app-bar/ - an Application Bar

/plugins/date-picker/ - - Cordova plugin for WP that exposes the native DateTime picker

/plugins/progress-bar/ - implements porgress bar control

/plugins/toggle-button/ - toggle button

** Each plugin folder contains sample page with usage example.

There is also special js code exporting theme switching functionality located at

/themes/themeswitcher/jquery.mobile.themeswitcher.js

Cordova

The jQM Metro theme is designed to work with Cordova on Windows Phone 7.5 for optimal integration. This is implemented by the following cordova plugins.

backButtonHandler.js - hardware back button handling functionality

dateTimePicker.js - js bridge for Cordova native DateTimePicker

jquery.cordova.metro.themeswitcher.js - provides functionality to apply system colors (uses phoneTheme.js below)

phoneTheme.js - js bridge for Cordova system colors detection plugin

Samples

Demo pages for the jquerymobile.com site reference (official demo for other developers).

/samples/jqm-public-demo/index.html

Windows Phone application based on Cordova framework to demonstrate all theme functionality (system colors, native UI elements). Does not contain any html pages inside, it uses absolute reference to test pages (see next section) located remotly.

/samples/WindowsPhone/MetroThemeDemoApp

Test pages

jQuery Mobile gallery sample page (with some little modifications). Contains both html version and windows phone native application.

/tests/basic/gallery/

This sample page demonstrates all metro theme additional plugins/controls descibed above ('Additional plugins' section). Html only verison.

/tests/extra/all.html

Note. Pages above are used as a reference for Windows Phone demo application.

Prerequisite

The following componets are required for optimal theme work Cordova App on Windows Phone 7.5 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit http://silverlight.codeplex.com/releases/view/71550#DownloadId=270984

Usage

To run jqmobile demo

1. Deploy to server the following directory (optional, you can run the demo from file system) /samples/jqm-public-demo/
2. Navigate to (desktop or mobile browser) jqm-public-demo/index.html

To run gallery test pages

1. Deploy to server the following directories (optional, you can run the demo from file system) /cordova /jqmobile-core /plugins /tests /themes
2. Navigate to (desktop or mobile browser) /tests/basic/gallery/html/forms-all.html

To build Windows Phone demo app

1. Open the following solution in Visual Studio /samples/WindowsPhone/MetroThemeDemoApp/MetroThemeDemoApp.sln
2. Update CordovaView.StartPageUri (MainPage.xaml) to reference to /tests/basic/gallery/html/forms-all.html located remotly.
3. Build