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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 1.0 MB
    Pages | 30
    Language | English
    Category | Programming
    Description:  Learn why you will want to use ActionScript3 when creating solutions for the iPhone and Android OS. Details what has changed from and what has stayed the same as earlier versions of ActionScript. Make the most out of your application using ActionScript3, with its increased speed and functionality.
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 3.87 MB
    Pages | 330
    Language | English
    Category | Programming
    Description:  Mobile Python is the introduction of Python programming language to the mobile space.  This practical hands-on book teaches readers how to realize their application ideas on the Symbian OS. Programming on the Symbian mobile platform has been difficult and time consuming in the past.  This innovative new title will remedy this problem.

    Chapters deal with topics that are based on Python S60 features and presented in an order that lets the user learn first the “simple to code” ones and then increasing in complexity.
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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 14.1 MB
    Pages | 658
    Language | English
    Category | Windows Phone
    Description:  The Windows Phone 7 platform, now recently updated, provides a remarkable opportunity for Windows developers to create state-of-the-art mobile applications using their existing skills and a familiar toolset. Pro Windows Phone 7 Development, Second Edition helps you unlock the potential of this platform and create dazzling, visually rich, and highly functional applications for the Windows Phone Marketplace—including using new features like copy-and-paste and API improvements in the NoDo and Mango update waves.
    For developers new to the Windows Phone platform—whether .NET, iPhone, or Android developers—this book starts by introducing the features and specifications of the Windows Phone series, and then leads you through the complete application development process. You'll learn how to use Microsoft technologies like Silverlight, .NET, the XNA Framework, Visual Studio, and Expression Blend effectively, how to take advantage of the device's sensors with the location service, accelerometer, and touch, how to make your apps location-aware using GPS data, how to utilize the rich media capabilities of the Windows Phone series, and much more. Finally, you'll receive a full tutorial on how to publish and sell your application through the Windows Phone Marketplace. And in this second edition, learn quickly and easily how to take advantage of new API capabilities and HTML5 support right in your browser.

    What you’ll learn
    The specifications and capabilities of the Windows Phone series and how to harness that power in your applications
    To understand its relationship to Silverlight, .NET, the XNA Framework, Visual Studio, and Expression Blend and how to use those tools most effectively to develop Windows Phone apps
    How to develop applications that take advantage of the available sensors, such as location service, accelerometer, and touch gestures
    How to develop rich media applications that harness the graphics capabilities of Windows Phone models
    The correct way to design and develop Windows Phone 7 applications utilizing the Model-View-ViewModel architecture
    The process of publishing your application to the Windows Phone Marketplace
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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 20.8 MB
    Pages | 388
    Language | English
    Category | Programming C#
    Description:  Develop mobile enterprise applications in a language you already know!
    With employees, rather than the IT department, now driving the decision of which devices to use on the job, many companies are scrambling to integrate enterprise applications. Fortunately, enterprise developers can now create apps for all major mobile devices using C#/.NET and Mono, languages most already know. A team of authors draws on their vast experiences to teach you how to create cross-platform mobile applications, while delivering the same functionality to PC's, laptops and the web from a single technology platform and code-base. Rather than reinventing the wheel with each app, this book provides you with the tools you need for cross-platform development--no new languages needed!

    Presents an overview of the sea change occurring with the use of enterprise mobile applications and what it means for developers
    Shares the criteria for evaluating and selecting the best option for application architecture
    Reviews tools and techniques for setting up a cross-platform development environment
    Offers an introduction to the MonoCross open-source project and pattern for cross-platform development
    Packed with specific software design patterns, development best practices, code examples and sample applications, this must-have book gets you started developing cross-platform mobile apps today.
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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 9.56 MB
    Pages | 172
    Language | English
    Category | Programming C#
    Description:  It’s true: you can build native apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone with C# and the .NET Framework—with help from MonoTouch and Mono for Android. This hands-on guide shows you how to reuse one codebase across all three platforms by combining the business logic layer of your C# app with separate, fully native UIs. It’s an ideal marriage of platform-specific development and the "write once, run everywhere" philosophy.

    By building a series of simple applications, you’ll experience the advantages of using .NET in mobile development and learn how to write complete apps that access the unique features of today’s three most important mobile platforms.
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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 9.81 MB
    Pages | 289
    Language | English
    Category | Android
    Description:  Learn the theory behind cross-platform development, and put the theory into practice with code using the invaluable information presented in this book. With in-depth coverage of development and distribution techniques for iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Android, you’ll learn the native approach to working with each of these platforms. With detailed coverage of emerging frameworks like PhoneGap and Rhomobile, you’ll learn the art of creating applications that will run across all devices. You’ll also be introduced to the code-signing process and the distribution of applications through the major application stores, including Research In Motion (BlackBerry), Apple, and Microsoft.

    What you’ll learn
    How to develop native applications on the leading mobile platforms including iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Android
    How to extend native applications to run across all mobile platforms using cross-platform mobile toolkits such as Rhomobile and PhoneGap.
    Best practices with full end-to-end samples in native code for each mobile platform
    How to distribute applications through each of the major mobile application stores (BlackBerry, Apple, and Microsoft)
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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 1.91 MB
    Pages | 56
    Language | English
    Category | Programming Web
    Description:  The goal of this ebook is to introduce you to mobile Web development. In many ways it is very similar to desktop Web site development - HTML5 is HTML5 no matter what device you install it on.What is different is how you use and interface with the device. Smartphones and tablets like the iPad, iPhone, and android devices are just very different than laptops and desktops.

    Find out how to work within mobile versions of popular web browsers while maximizing your design with HTML5 and CSS3 basics.
    Discover how to place items, work with fonts, and control color detail as well as other critical yet simple design elements.
    Work on graphical control with Bitmap, SVG and Canvas elements
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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 26.9 MB
    Pages | 346
    Language | English
    Category | Programming Web
    Description:  PhoneGap is a growing and leading open-source mobile web apps development framework that lets developers build JavaScript and HTML5-based web applications with native wrappers for more than six mobile platforms, including iOS, Android, and BlackBerry. This framework lets you build HTML- and JavaScript-based apps and still take advantage of native mobile device capabilities like camera, localStorage, geolocation, storage and much more, irrespective of the mobile platform you target. It also lets you use more specialized JavaScript frameworks like jQuery Mobile and more.
    Beginning PhoneGap is a definitive, one-of-a-kind book that teaches the fundamentals and strategies behind cross-platform mobile application development. Instead of learning languages like Objective-C, focus on building apps from day one for Android, iOS, Blackberry, WebOS and Symbian—without the complexities of these platforms.
    This book shows how to build apps which makes use of Google Local Search to create a Restaurant finder apps (which uses Maps to layout locations and uses internal database to store your favorite restaurants. Furthermore, you'll learn how to extend PhoneGap's functionality by using PhoneGap plugins to write apps like Dropbox (syncing files in the background outside HTML/JavaScript code and in native code).
    By the time you finish Beginning PhoneGap, you'll know PhoneGap inside and out, and, consequently, be able to develop mobile web apps faster and more efficiently than ever before. Make more money in less time!

    What you’ll learn
    This book offers an examples-based approach on how to build PhoneGap-based HTML and JavaScript that integrates device features like geolocation, camera, storage, and more.
    To understand mobile web applications development using the PhoneGap framework
    How to build simple apps for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS and Symbian
    The differences in capabilities across various mobile devices
    How to integrate other popular mobile JavaScript frameworks to build user interfaces in PhoneGap
    All the major features in PhoneGap, like geolocation, camera, media, storage, and more.
    How to build app which make use of OAuth for authentication with services like Facebook
    How to extend PhoneGap using the PhoneGap plugin development framework

    Table of Contents
    Understand Cross-Platform Mobile Web Application Development
    Getting Started with PhoneGap
    A PhoneGap API Reference
    Setting Environmnet
    Using PhoneGap with jQueryMobile
    Using PhoneGap with SenchaTouch
    Using PhoneGap with GWT
    PhoneGap Emulators and Remote Debugging
    Extend PhoneGap using PhoneGap Plugin Development framework
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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 8.68 MB
    Pages | 250
    Language | English
    Category | Programming Web
    Description:  While media buzz regularly circulates around iPhone and Android, Nokia still leads the pack in terms of world market share. Symbian, for instance, remains the most widely used mobile operating system. With Nokia's open development platform, the opportunities available for mobile developers to target this vastly popular operating system are abundant and clear.
    Use Qt to target both platforms: Symbian, the most widely used mobile operating system in the world, as well as MeeGo, the Intel/Nokia platform for mobile devices.
    Develop HTML5 applications for both Symbian and MeeGo platforms that will run with little modification on other mobile platforms.
    Novice developers learn the basics of Qt with a mobile slant, giving them the ability to target both desktop and mobile platforms.

    What you’ll learn
    How to do Qt basics
    What is QML or the Qt Markup Language
    What is Qt for Meego and how to use it
    and how to use it
    How to work with the Web Runtime
    Why mobile development is different
    How to port/support MeeGo and Symbian platforms

    Who this book is for
    This must-have book is for mobile developers wanting to target the Meego and Symbian platforms (either as the sole platform or in cross-platform development), and existing mobile developers wanting to start using Qt.
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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 23.8 MB
    Pages | 262
    Language | English
    Category | Programming Web
    Description:  You need to build an app, and you need it to run everywhere. And you need it now! jQuery Mobile gives you the ability to write once and run everywhere using jQuery and jQuery UI. Pro jQuery Mobile will teach you how to create themable, responsive, native-looking applications for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, and more.
    Discover what sets jQuery Mobile apart from other mobile web development platforms
    Walk through practical examples of jQuery Mobile features, including design elements and event handling
    Dig into the jQuery API, integrate web services, and learn how to publish to app stores with Phone Gap
    jQuery Mobile is a framework for delivering cross-platform mobile web applications with a unified interface. jQuery Mobile combines responsive layouts with progressive enhancement to render the best possible user experience from a single code base. With Pro jQuery Mobile, you'll be creating amazing mobile apps in no time.

    What you’ll learn
    Unique features of jQuery Mobile
    jQuery Mobile core features, including page structure, navigation, and form elements
    The entire jQuery Mobile API, including data attributes, methods, and events
    How to apply jQuery Mobile to specific cases, including iOS and Android apps
    How to publish your apps to app stores via PhoneGap
    Integrating web services and Google Maps into your jQuery Mobile apps
    Who this book is for
    Mobile developers who want to master jQuery Mobile and build cross-platform mobile web applications from a single code base.

    Table of Contents
    Why jQuery Mobile?
    Getting Started with jQuery Mobile
    Navigating with Toolbars
    Form Elements and Buttons
    Presenting Lists of Information
    Formatting Content with Grids and CSS
    Creating Themable Designs
    jQuery Mobile API
    Working Effectively with Services
    Distributing jQuery Mobile Natively with PhoneGap
    Finding Your Way with Google Maps
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