www.it-ebooks.info www.it-ebooks.info ffffiirrss..iinndddd ii 2288//0077//1122 66::1100 PPMM PROFESSIONAL MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii CHAPTER 1 Preliminary Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 CHAPTER 2 Diving into Mobile: App or Website?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 CHAPTER 3 Creating Consumable Web Services for Mobile Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 CHAPTER 4 Mobile User Interface Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 CHAPTER 5 Mobile Websites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117 CHAPTER 6 Getting Started with Android . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151 CHAPTER 7 Getting Started with iOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 CHAPTER 8 Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .229 CHAPTER 9 Getting Started with BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .253 CHAPTER 10 Getting Started with Appcelerator Titanium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .283 CHAPTER 11 Getting Started with PhoneGap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .309 CHAPTER 12 Getting Started with MonoTouch and Mono for Android . . . . . . . . . . .343 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 www.it-ebooks.info ffffiirrss..iinndddd ii 0099//0088//1122 77::1155 PPMM www.it-ebooks.info ffffiirrss..iinndddd iiii 0099//0088//1122 77::1155 PPMM PROFESSIONAL Mobile Application Development www.it-ebooks.info ffffiirrss..iinndddd iiiiii 0099//0088//1122 77::1155 PPMM www.it-ebooks.info ffffiirrss..iinndddd iivv 0099//0088//1122 77::1155 PPMM PROFESSIONAL Mobile Application Development Jeff McWherter Scott Gowell John Wiley & Sons, Inc. www.it-ebooks.info ffffiirrss..iinndddd vv 0099//0088//1122 77::1155 PPMM Professional Mobile Application Development Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Boulevard Indianapolis, IN 46256 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2012 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada ISBN: 978-1-118-20390-3 ISBN: 978-1-118-22842-5 (ebk) ISBN: 978-1-118-24068-7 (ebk) ISBN: 978-1-118-26551-2 (ebk) Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. 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