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Multimobile Development: Building Applications for the iPhone and Android (Books for Professionals by Professionals) [Paperback]

Matthew Baxter-Reynolds (Author)
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Book Description

Publication Date: 5 Oct 2010 | ISBN-10: 143023198X | ISBN-13: 978-1430231981

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.

What you’ll learn

  • How to develop, end-to-end, the same application on iPhone and Android platforms.
  • The different service architectures available on each platform, concentrating on services related to storage, communications and security.
  • Key differences in deploying and managing applications on the various platforms.
  • How to translate experience at developing on one platform to speed development when attempting a project on a different platform.
  • Plus, stay on top of developments in the mobile application space by visiting the author's comprehensive resource site at http://www.multimobiledevelopment.com

Who this book is for

Cracking iPhone and Android Native Development is the essential book for software developers looking to build applications that run natively, without cumbersome compatibility layers and toolkits, on the iPhone and Android platforms.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The Six Bookmarks Server Service
  3. Application Architecture and Functional Specification
  4. Android: Installing the Toolset
  5. Android: Building the Logon Form and Consuming REST Services
  6. Android: An ORM Layer on SQLite
  7. Android: Pushing Changes to the Server
  8. iOS: Installing the Toolset
  9. iOS: Building the Logon Form and Consuming REST Services
  10. iOS: An ORM Layer on SQLite
  11. iOS: Pushing Changes Back to the Server
  12. iOS: MonoTouch

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it ! 20 Nov 2010
By EX600 - Published on Amazon.com
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I get to talk to a lot of people and when book reviews come up I get the impression that a lot of people feel left short because a lot of books stop where things get really interesting: getting data off the internet, present them in your app and - optionally - sending data back. Because, let's face it, a lot of great apps are based on existing websites or webservices. Getting data off the internet and sending it back is something that a lot of apps do and not every book explains it.

If you're one of those people then you'll like this book. It takes a very interesting approach: it has chapters on

- installing the tools + SDK
- consuming services
- storing data local using an ORM layer
- sending data back to the server

And it has these chapters for both Android and iOS.

But before that the author explains and builds the webservices and shows you how to test them. The author also explains that the ORM used in this book is a scaled down version of BootFX, an open-source application framework for .NET. The chapters on ORM are very interesting although - I admit - I've got a bit of a thing for ORM's. I can certainly see myself reusing the ORM code from this book in any multiplatform projects that I will be building in the future.

The book comes with the companion website http://www.multimobiledevelopment.com/ where you can download all the sources that are used in the chapters described above. I felt everything was explained very well and learned quite a few new approaches to problems, especially in the Android chapters.

But the meat of the book has to be in the chapters mentioned above. They deal with so many real-life situations when fetching internet data: calling the services, building proxy classes, asynchronous fetching, parsing xml, handling errors and storing data in Sqlite using an ORM. I mean: this is an absolute goldmine for any developer. And if you're not ready for an ORM, so be it. Just change the code to talk to Sqlite with your own.

If you're into multi-platform mobile development, then I can absolutely recommend this book. It doesn't teach you Java nor Objective-C, in fact it teaches you none of those things. That's not what this book is for. What it does do, however, is fullfill its title by giving you an awesome insight on how to develop for the 2 leading mobile platforms at the moment.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Guide for Developing applications for iPhone and Android 4 Dec 2010
By Andy Zhang - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Perhaps the most exciting and rapidly changing area of software development today is at the multimobile development. Every enterprise should consider the needs of multiple mobile devices and their users. The author of this book have done a great job of demonstrating the meeting this challenge is not only possible, but you can do it with synergy.

This book offers useful code samples and development methodologies on various aspects of mobile application development such as:

--Data modeling
--Application architecture design (model, view, controller)
--Server upload
--SQLite database for local storage
--Communication and security

If you have not done much mobile development before, this book has enough information to get you started such as installing necessary SDKs. Both beginners and experienced programmers can find useful sections within this book.

What this book does not cover (as implied by its title) is the Windows Phone 7. As the time the author was authoring the book, that mobile device was not yet released to public.

This is a book that is useful for iPhone, iPad, and Android development.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars covers exactly what you need to write interesting apps 13 Feb 2011
By David Karapetyan - Published on Amazon.com
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This book covers exactly what you need to write interesting and interactive applications, i.e. getting information from various network resources like the internet and helping the user navigate that information. So after you have written your 10th hello world mobile app that has no way of accessing the vast amounts of information available on the internet and you're wondering how to tap into that information then it's time to pick up this book.
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