Cracking iPhone and Android Native Development
Cross-Platform Mobile Apps Without the Kludge
Authors: Baxter-Reynolds, Matthew
Free Preview- Only book on the market that helps the reader move from their "intellectual investment" in one platform in such a way that a native understanding of the platform is preserved
- Acts as a start-up guide to developers moving from Windows Mobile 6.5 to Windows Phone 7 or to a different platform (a key audience this year)
- Focuses on native solutions (not compatibility hacks) that are most likely to be adopted by a wide swath of mobile users and developers
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- About this book
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You've developed a killer app for one mobile device—now it’s time to maximize your intellectual investment and develop for the full spectrum of mobile platforms and devices. With Cracking iPhone and Android Native Development, you’ll learn how to quickly retool between the iPhone and Android platforms and broaden the interest and audience of your app, without working with burdensome and error-prone compatibility layers and toolkits.
Cracking iPhone and Android Native Development takes you, the developer, through the same mobile software development project on both platforms, learning the differences between and the relative strengths and weaknesses of each platform as you go. No magic intermediate layers of obfuscation—by the time you get to the end, you'll be an expert at developing for any of the major smartphone platforms using each vendor's preferred toolset and approach.
Cracking iPhone and Android Native Development covers the iPhone and Android platforms, two of the hottest mobile device platforms on the market today.
- About the authors
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Matthew Baxter-Reynolds is a software development consultant, working with companies to improve their products and capability as software developers. Between 2000 and 2003, he wrote a considerable amount of content on Windows .NET and Windows DNA technologies for Wrox Press, including a best-selling book, Beginning E-commerce. He also acts as chief technical officer to Simplehosted, a leading provider of mobile workforce management solutions in the U.K. Their solutions are based on Windows Mobile.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-4
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The Six Bookmarks Server Service
Pages 5-18
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Application Architecture and Functional Specification
Pages 19-33
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Android: Installing the Toolset
Pages 35-54
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Android: Building the Logon Form and Consuming REST Services
Pages 55-91
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Cracking iPhone and Android Native Development
- Book Subtitle
- Cross-Platform Mobile Apps Without the Kludge
- Authors
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- Matthew Baxter-Reynolds
- Copyright
- 2010
- Publisher
- Apress
- Copyright Holder
- Matthew Baxter-Reynolds
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4302-3199-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4302-3199-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4302-3198-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 480
- Topics
