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You're reading from Building Web and Mobile ArcGIS Server Applications with JavaScript ??? Second Edition Build exciting custom web and mobile GIS applications with the ArcGIS Server API for JavaScript

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787280526

Length 324 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

ArcGIS

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Authors (2):

Eric Pimpler

Mark Lewin

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript FREE CHAPTER

2. Creating Maps and Adding Layers

3. Adding Graphics to the Map

4. The Feature Layer

5. Using Widgets and Toolbars

6. Performing Spatial and Attribute Queries

7. Identifying and Finding Features

8. Turning Addresses into Points and Points into Addresses

9. Directions and Routing

10. Geoprocessing Tasks

11. Geometry Operations

12. Integration with ArcGIS Online

13. Creating Mobile Applications

14. Looking Ahead - Version 4 of the ArcGIS API for JavaScript

Creating Mobile Applications

The ArcGIS Server API for JavaScript provides support for mobile platforms. Support is currently provided for iOS, Android, and Blackberry operating systems. The API is integrated with Dojo Mobile. In this chapter, you'll learn about the compact build of the API, which makes web mapping applications possible on mobile devices. You can also use other popular frameworks, such as jQuery Mobile, Appcelerator, and PhoneGap for development and related tools such as Bootstrap for responsive web design, but we'll focus on Dojo Mobile in this chapter.

Keep in mind that these frameworks are not the same things as the ArcGIS API for iOS or Android, which is what you'd use to build native applications that can be made available through an App Store. JavaScript API applications are rendered through the mobile device's browser.

We'll also...

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Authors (2)

Eric Pimpler

Eric Pimpler is the founder and owner of GeoSpatial Training Services and has over 20 years of experience in implementing and teaching GIS solutions using Esri, Google Earth/Maps, and open source technology. Currently, he focuses on ArcGIS scripting with Python and the development of custom ArcGIS Server web and mobile applications using JavaScript. He is the author of Programming ArcGIS 10.1 with Python Cookbook. Eric has a bachelor's degree in geography from Texas A&M University and a master's degree in applied geography with a specification in GIS from Texas State University.

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Mark Lewin

Mark Lewin has been developing, teaching, and writing about software for over 16 years. His main interest is GIS and web mapping. Working for ESRI, the world's largest GIS company, he has been a consultant, trainer and course author, and a frequent speaker at industry events. He has subsequently expanded his knowledge to include a wide variety of open source mapping technologies and a handful of relevant JavaScript frameworks, including Node.js, Dojo, and JQuery. Mark now works within Oracle's MySQL curriculum team, focusing on creating great learning experiences for DBAs and database developers, but remains crazy about web mapping.

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