Seven Mobile Apps in Seven Weeks

Seven Mobile Apps in Seven Weeks

Author: Tony Hillerson

Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf

Published: 2016-08-01

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 168050472X

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Answer the question "Can we build this for ALL the devices?" with a resounding YES. Learn how to build apps using seven different platforms: Mobile Web, iOS, Android, Windows, RubyMotion, React Native, and Xamarin. Find out which cross-platform solution makes the most sense for your needs, whether you're new to mobile or an experienced developer expanding your options. Start covering all of the mobile world today. Understanding the idioms, patterns, and quirks of the modern mobile platforms gives you the power to choose how you develop. Over seven weeks you'll build seven different mobile apps using seven different tools. You'll start out with Mobile Web; develop native apps on iOS, Android, and Windows; and finish by building apps for multiple operating systems using the native cross-platform solutions RubyMotion, React Native, and Xamarin. For each platform, you'll build simple, but non-trivial, apps that consume JSON data, run on multiple screen sizes, or store local data. You'll see how to test, how to build views, and how to structure code. You'll find out how much code it's possible to share, how much of the underlying platform you still need to know, and ultimately, you'll get a firm understanding of how to build apps on whichever devices your users prefer. This book gives you enough first-hand experience to weigh the trade-offs when building mobile apps. You'll compare writing apps on one platform versus another and understand the benefits and hidden costs of cross-platform tools. You'll get pragmatic, hands-on experience writing apps in a multi-platform world. What You Need: You'll need a computer and some experience programming. When we cover iOS, you'll need a Mac, and when we cover Windows Phone you'll need a computer with Windows on it. It's helpful if you have access to an iPhone, Android phone, and Windows Phone to run the examples on the devices where mobile apps are ultimately deployed, but the simulators or emulator versions of those phones work great.


Smart Phone and Next Generation Mobile Computing

Smart Phone and Next Generation Mobile Computing

Author: Pei Zheng

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2010-07-19

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 0080458343

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This in-depth technical guide is an essential resource for anyone involved in the development of "smart mobile wireless technology, including devices, infrastructure, and applications. Written by researchers active in both academic and industry settings, it offers both a big-picture introduction to the topic and detailed insights into the technical details underlying all of the key trends. Smart Phone and Next-Generation Mobile Computing shows you how the field has evolved, its real and potential current capabilities, and the issues affecting its future direction. It lays a solid foundation for the decisions you face in your work, whether you're a manager, engineer, designer, or entrepreneur. - Covers the convergence of phone and PDA functionality on the terminal side, and the integration of different network types on the infrastructure side - Compares existing and anticipated wireless technologies, focusing on 3G cellular networks and wireless LANs - Evaluates terminal-side operating systems/programming environments, including Microsoft Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Symbian, J2ME, and Linux - Considers the limitations of existing terminal designs and several pressing application design issues - Explores challenges and possible solutions relating to the next phase of smart phone development, as it relates to services, devices, and networks - Surveys a collection of promising applications, in areas ranging from gaming to law enforcement to financial processing


Mobile Platform Security

Mobile Platform Security

Author: N. Asokan

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-05-31

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 3031023412

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Recently, mobile security has garnered considerable interest in both the research community and industry due to the popularity of smartphones. The current smartphone platforms are open systems that allow application development, also for malicious parties. To protect the mobile device, its user, and other mobile ecosystem stakeholders such as network operators, application execution is controlled by a platform security architecture. This book explores how such mobile platform security architectures work. We present a generic model for mobile platform security architectures: the model illustrates commonly used security mechanisms and techniques in mobile devices and allows a systematic comparison of different platforms. We analyze several mobile platforms using the model. In addition, this book explains hardware-security mechanisms typically present in a mobile device. We also discuss enterprise security extensions for mobile platforms and survey recent research in the area of mobile platform security. The objective of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the current status of mobile platform security for students, researchers, and practitioners.


Software Ecosystems

Software Ecosystems

Author: Slinger Jansen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1781955638

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This book describes the state-of-the-art of software ecosystems. It constitutes a fundamental step towards an empirically based, nuanced understanding of the implications for management, governance, and control of software ecosystems. This is the first book of its kind dedicated to this emerging field and offers guidelines on how to analyze software ecosystems; methods for managing and growing; methods on transitioning from a closed software organization to an open one; and instruments for dealing with open source, licensing issues, product management and app stores. It is unique in bringing together industry experiences, academic views and tackling challenges such as the definition of fundamental concepts of software ecosystems, describing those forces that influence its development and lifecycles, and the provision of methods for the governance of software ecosystems. This book is an essential starting point for software industry researchers, product managers, and entrepreneurs.


Protecting Mobile Networks and Devices

Protecting Mobile Networks and Devices

Author: Weizhi Meng

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-11-25

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 131535263X

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This book gathers and analyzes the latest attacks, solutions, and trends in mobile networks. Its broad scope covers attacks and solutions related to mobile networks, mobile phone security, and wireless security. It examines the previous and emerging attacks and solutions in the mobile networking worlds, as well as other pertinent security issues. The many attack samples present the severity of this problem, while the delivered methodologies and countermeasures show how to build a truly secure mobile computing environment.


Mobile Platforms and Development Environments

Mobile Platforms and Development Environments

Author: Abdelsalam A. Helal

Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1608458660

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Mobile platform development has lately become a technological war zone with extremely dynamic and fluid movement, especially in the smart phone and tablet market space. This Synthesis lecture is a guide to the latest developments of the key mobile platforms that are shaping the mobile platform industry. The book covers the three currently dominant native platforms -- iOS, Android and Windows Phone -- along with the device-agnostic HTML5 mobile web platform. The lecture also covers location-based services (LBS) which can be considered as a platform in its own right. The lecture utilizes a sample application (TwitterSearch) that the authors show programmed on each of the platforms. Audiences who may benefit from this lecture include: (1) undergraduate and graduate students taking mobile computing classes or self-learning the mobile platform programmability road map; (2) academic and industrial researchers working on mobile computing R&D projects; (3) mobile app developers for a specific platform who may be curious about other platforms; (4) system integrator consultants and firms concerned with mobilizing businesses and enterprise apps; and (5) industries including health care, logistics, mobile workforce management, mobile commerce and payment systems and mobile search and advertisement. Table of Contents: From the Newton to the iPhone / iOS / Android / Windows Phone / Mobile Web / Platform-in-Platform: Location-Based Services (LBS) / The Future of Mobile Platforms / TwitterSearch Sample Application


The Six Immutable Laws of Mobile Business

The Six Immutable Laws of Mobile Business

Author: Philip Sugai

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-01-07

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0471741469

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Valuable lessons from Japan’s mobile industry yield 6 Immutable Laws for Mobile Business globally Japan’s mobile customers enjoyed better mobile devices, more content, and the most advanced functionality and services for the last 10+ years. This book helps cut through the many myths and all of the hype surrounding Japan’s mobile dominance to identify the most important laws that will guide the success of mobile businesses around the world. Based on detailed market analysis and unprecedented access to the major players and pioneers of the Japanese mobile industry, this publication helps you understand the Six Immutable Laws of Mobile Business. These will help you and your business successfully navigate the challenges that the world’s Wireless Revolution brings. From Law #1 through Law #6, authors Philip Sugai, Marco Koeder, and Ludovico Ciferri will help guide you to distinguish mobile myth from mobile fact, micro developments from macro trends, and regional characteristics from universal truths. The book highlights Japan’s incredible efforts to offer consumers complex, high-tech devices with enriched services that are nonetheless elegant and easy to use, a quest which the authors have labeled "Simplexity." Based on their interviews and observations, the authors assert that, "Simplexity will be what truly empowers individual users through their mobile devices. Filled with case studies exploring all aspects of the Japanese mobile industry, this unique publication points carriers and content and service providers towards successful business models and practices for today’s and tomorrow’s mobile Internet. This book is the beginning of the conversation of The Six Immutable Laws of Mobile Business, which is regularly being updated and expanded upon at:www.siximmutablelaws.com


Windows Phone 7 in Action

Windows Phone 7 in Action

Author: Michael Sync

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-08-20

Total Pages: 776

ISBN-13: 1638352461

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Summary Windows Phone 7 in Action is a hands-on guide to building mobile applications for WP. Written for developers who already know their way around Visual Studio, this book zips through the basics, including an intro to WP7 and Metro. Then, it moves on to the nuts and bolts of building great phone apps. About the Technology Windows Phone 7 is a powerful mobile platform sporting the same Metro interface as Windows 8. It offers a rich environment for apps, browsing, and media. Developers code the OS and hardware using familiar .NET tools like C# and XAML. And the new Windows Store offers an app marketplace reaching millions of users. About the Book Windows Phone 7 in Action is a hands-on guide to programming the WP7 platform. It zips through standard phone, text, and email controls and dives head-first into how to build great mobile apps. You'll master the hardware APIs, access web services, and learn to build location and push applications. Along the way, you'll see how to create the stunning visual effects that can separate your apps from the pack. Written for developers familiar with .NET and Visual Studio. No WP7 or mobile experience is required. Purchase includes free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBooks downloadable at manning.com. What's Inside Full introduction to WP7 and Metro HTML5 hooks for media, animation, and more XNA for stunning 3D graphics Selling apps in the Windows Store About the Authors Timothy Binkley-Jones is a software engineer with extensive experience developing commercial IT, web, and mobile applications. Massimo Perga is a software engineer at Microsoft and Michael Sync is a solution architect for Silverlight and WP7. Table of Contents4>PART 1 INTRODUCING WINDOWS PHONE A new phone, a new operating system Creating your first Windows Phone applicationPART 2 CORE WINDOWS PHONE Fast application switching and scheduled actions Launching tasks and choosers Storing data Working with the camera Integrating with the Pictures and Music + Videos Hubs Using sensors Network communication with push notifications and sockets PART 3 SILVERLIGHT FOR WINDOWS PHONE ApplicationBar, Panorama, and Pivot controls Building Windows Phone UI with Silverlight controls Manipulating and creating media with MediaElement Using Bing Maps and the browser PART 4 SILVERLIGHT AND THE XNA FRAMEWORK Integrating Silverlight with XNA XNA input handling


Essential Mobile Interaction Design

Essential Mobile Interaction Design

Author: Cameron Banga

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0321961579

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Mobile apps should feel natural and intuitive. Users should quickly and easily understand them. This means effective interaction and interface design is crucial to the success of any mobile app. However, few mobile app developers (or even designers) have had adequate training in these areas.


Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems

Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems

Author: Muhammad Younas

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-08-10

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 3319442155

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems, MobiWIS 2016, held in Vienna, Austria, in August 2016. The 36 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. They were organization in topical sections named: mobile Web - practice and experience; advanced Web and mobile systems; security of mobile applications; mobile and wireless networking; mobile applications and wearable devices; mobile Web and applications; personalization and social networks.