Instant Adobe Edge Inspect Starter

Joseph Khan

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781849694001
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Quality Assurance & Testing
• Index: Computer Science

In Detail

Mobile web testing is currently a really time consuming and cumbersome process as there are no direct debugging tools available with mobile web browsers. Since mobile devices vary so much it is important to ensure that your web page looks as intended across the multiple mobile devices that you are targeting for your audience. Edge Inspect is a perfect tool for web developers and designers who are developing for mobile devices, allowing them to simultaneously test on numerous devices in real time as they develop without learning anything new.

"Instant Adobe Edge Inspect Starter" is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of detailed steps, which will help you to get started on testing and previewing all your mobile web projects on multiple mobile devices. This book will also show you how to use all the other available features of Edge Inspect and make the entire testing process on mobile devices very simple, effortless, and faster.

This book starts with an introduction to Edge Inspect and will take you through a number of clear and detailed steps needed to set up a working installation, and get up and running with testing your web pages on mobile devices.

You will also learn why traditional ways of testing mobile web applications are not very helpful and how Adobe Edge Inspect overcomes it. We will take a look at connecting single and multiple mobile devices with your computer and how to browse in sync. We will learn about remotely inspecting and previewing mobile web pages on a targeted device and directly see the changes taking place on the device itself. We will discuss in detail about creating our very own simple mobile web application, running it from a local server and testing it across mobile devices. We will also take a look at how to use the Edge Inspect web inspector window and do some basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript debugging. And then finally we will take a look at using our own local Weinre debug server with Edge Inspect and some other very important features. If you want to take advantage of Adobe Edge Inspect and make mobile web testing a lot easier, then this is the book is for you.

"Instant Adobe Edge Inspect Starter" will guide you in getting started with Edge Inspect and will make testing on mobile devices a lot simpler and faster. The book is packed with a lot of examples and diagrams that will help you to test all your mobile web projects without any hassle.

Approach

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. This easy-to-understand Starter guide will get you up to speed with Adobe Edge Inspect quickly and with little effort.

Who this book is for

This book is for frontend web developers and designers who are developing and testing web applications targeted for mobile browsers. It's assumed that you have a basic understanding of creating web applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, as well as being familiar with running web pages from local HTTP servers. Readers are also expected to have a basic knowledge of debugging web applications using developer tools such as the Chrome web inspector. And of course you need some mobile devices for running the example in this book and testing it.

Instant Adobe Edge Inspect Starter

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Instant Adobe Edge Inspect Starter

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Credits

Author

Joseph Khan

Reviewer

Christopher Tilford

Acquisition Editor

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Commissioning Editor

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About the Author

Joseph Khan is a Senior Web Developer at GoldSpot Media where he specializes in mobile web apps, rich media apps, and other RIAs (Rich Internet Applications). Before moving into mobile web development he was working with Adobe Flex, Action Script, and Flash technologies and developed data visualization and enterprise dashboard based applications for clients such as Cisco, The World Bank, AADI, and other global organizations. His liking towards mobile web development has been recent and he has been hooked ever since. He also likes Phonegap, SASS, Drupal, and Python.

He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from N.I.T Silchar, India and has been working on the Web and related technologies for 6 years.

Besides his regular work he also likes to design cars and motorbikes, ride his Yamaha, and look for good food. Find out more about him and all his work at http://jbkflex.wordpress.com/.

I would like to dedicate this book to my parents, my wife without whom I would not have been here, and specially to my newly born baby boy 'Ayaan'.

About the Reviewer

Christopher Tilford has a degree in English Literature, and aside from writing and literature, Christopher has been a freelance graphic and web designer for over 6 years. He founded AzurePro Studios in 2006 as a way for him to bring life to his own creative ideas. Over the years he has met numerous creative individuals and has developed an extensive network of talented connections.

Christopher has a background in advertising and brings his creative flair and enthusiasm to the table. An avid creative enthusiast, he is the author of Shattered Heaven: Sins of the Soul and its subsequent three sequel novels. He took up screenwriting in 2007 when he began to venture into animation. Not just a writer, Christopher has made it his joy to become proficient in all things Adobe. From writing to graphic design and animation, Christopher has set no limits to what he would like to accomplish. You can find out more about him and his work at http://www.azureprostudios.com.

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Chapter 1. Instant Adobe Edge Inspect Starter

Welcome to Instant Adobe Edge Inspect Starter.

This book has been especially created to provide you with all the information you need to get up to speed with testing and debugging web pages and applications targeted for mobile browsers. This book is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of detailed steps that will help you to get started on testing and previewing all your mobile web projects on multiple mobile devices. This book will also show you how to use all the other available features of Edge Inspect and make the entire testing process on a mobile device very simple, effortless, and faster.

This document contains the following sections:

So, what is Adobe Edge Inspect? – Find out what Edge Inspect actually is, what you can do with it, and why it's so great.

Installation – Learn how to download and install Adobe Edge Inspect with minimum fuss and then set it up so that you can use it as soon as possible.

Quick start – pairing mobile devices with your computer – This section will show you how to perform one of the core tasks of remote debugging of a mobile web application with Adobe Edge Inspect, for example, pairing and connecting test mobile devices with a computer.

Top 7 features you'll want to know about – Here you will learn how to perform seven tasks with the most impor...

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• Instant Adobe Edge Inspect Starter