Beginning Smartphone Web Development: Building Javascript, CSS, HTML and Ajax-Based Applications for iPhone, Android, Palm Pre, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Nokia S60
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Today’s Web 2.0 applications (think Facebook and Twitter) go far beyond the confines of the desktop and are widely used on mobile devices. The mobile Web has become incredibly popular given le, and the emergence of Palm Pre (and its webOS platform). At Apress, we are fortunate to have Gail Frederick of the well-known training site Learn the Mobile Web offer her expert advi… More >>
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This book is an excellent source of information for the mobile web developer. It assumes you have prior knowledge of web development and takes you straight in to the mobile web. The information presented is extremely relevant. There is a section about useful add-ons for Firefox as a tool for web development. There are references about the MIME types used in mobile web. I specially liked the four case studies which examined four popular mobile web sites: Bank of America, CNN, Flickr and Wikipedia. The book also is supported by code examples in their website which is especially useful in web development.
It ends with a chapter interviewing a panel of experts about the future of mobile web which was very interesting and comprehensive.
Altogether, I highly recommend this book to experienced developers looking to create mobile web content. I plan to use the newly acquired knowledge to create the mobile web version of my protesting web site (BeMeProtest).
Rating: 5 / 5
It is a very well written book. The book provides a very good overview and a overall birds eye view of most of the mobile platforms. This book is not in depth, but thats exactly what the title says ‘Beginning’. If you want in depth you can view some of their other series. The book is like a movie trailer, if you want to see the whole movie, there are other book by the same publisher, and same series. Its great for people who don’t want to get into the details, but would like to select their favorite mobile platform, by seeing what every platform has to offer. The language and style is excellent, and the information flows smoothly. The book does contain codes and examples to try. The book help a starter to navigate the complex waters of mobile platform development with great ease. Highly recommended for mobile platform starters.
Rating: 5 / 5
The book is good if you are a beginner and covers a variety of Mobile device and lot of topics related to mobile design and development. I really liked the tips on designing mobile web sites, which I think has became of paramount important now a days.
Rating: 5 / 5
I just finish the book and take me almost 10 days to read it. There are 2 reasons for it, one is I read a few books about mobile web before and the books is little boring. I read a lot of books every month (technical and non technical) and I spent usually one or two days to read a 350 pages book.
There is really good information on this book, but I don’t like the way it show it. Goods examples are necessary when you try to explain technology. Real world examples and not just screenshots from popular web sites or basic samples.
Examples in the book are only in PHP, there are no examples online or in the book in ASP.NET.
Rating: 3 / 5