Matt Doyle is an experienced technical author and coder who has written two well-received books on Photoshop and PHP.

He has also written articles for Elated.com and SitePoint on a variety of topics, including PHP, CSS, JavaScript and, of course, jQuery Mobile.

Here are some of the topics you'll learn when you read this book:

What jQuery Mobile can do for you

How can jQuery Mobile help you build better mobile websites and web apps? You'll learn about the concepts behind mobile web apps, discover how jQuery Mobile can speed up your app development, and find out how to install jQuery Mobile and get up and running quickly.

Build a simple mobile website in minutes

Early in the book you dive straight into the action, and use jQuery Mobile to build a simple yet fully-functioning mobile website in a snap.

All the jQuery Mobile page elements explained

Discover how to build pages, buttons, toolbars, dialogs, popups, forms and interactive listviews — using nothing but HTML.

Theming jQuery Mobile

Explore jQuery Mobile's rich theming system that lets you give your mobile apps a totally unique look and feel. Learn how to use the ThemeRoller tool to design themes quickly and simply.

The jQuery Mobile API revealed

Find out how to use events, methods, and configuration options to get under the hood of jQuery Mobile and integrate your own JavaScript code with the framework.

Build a complete PHP-driven mobile web app using jQuery Mobile

You bring all this knowledge together and learn how to create a fully-functioning, multi-user task manager app from the ground up using jQuery Mobile, PHP and MySQL.

Use jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap to Build Native Apps

Finally, you also discover how to build a native iOS app using jQuery Mobile, PhoneGap and the Google Maps API. You can use these techniques to build native apps for iOS, Android and other platforms that you can then sell through stores like Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market.