Multimobile Development: Building Applications for the iPhone and Android
Matthew Baxter-Reynolds
Language: English
Pages: 481
ISBN: B013J97T2U
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
</em>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 <em>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.
<h3>What you’ll learn</h3> * 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
<h3>Who this book is for</h3>
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.
<h3>Table of Contents</h3><ol> * Introduction
* The Six Bookmarks Server Service
* Application Architecture and Functional Specification
* Android: Installing the Toolset
* Android: Building the Logon Form and Consuming REST Services
* Android: An ORM Layer on SQLite
* Android: Pushing Changes to the Server
* iOS: Installing the Toolset
* iOS: Building the Logon Form and Consuming REST Services
* iOS: An ORM Layer on SQLite
* iOS: Pushing Changes Back to the Server
* iOS: MonoTouch
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..................................................................................................................6 The Users Service ....................................................................................................................8 RESTful Web Services........................................................................................................8 Testing the Calls.
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“repurposed” for use in the Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry applications. (This layer will work on Windows Phone 7, just as soon as it has a database management system available!) Chapter 3 discusses the theory about how you build such a thing. This chapter is going to look at how you actually do it. As discussed in Chapter 3, the most important thing about an ORM layer is to imbue it with decent metadata. It’s only through this metadata that you can code in a decent level of “magic” to make.
...............................................................................................242 Special Note About Grouped Views ................................................................................246 Conventions for Presenting Code in the iPhone Chapters ......................................................246 Calling the Services..............................................................................................................247 Capturing the Logon Request.
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