Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming: Building Applications for Mobile Safari
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This hands-on, in-depth book introduces developers to the initial release of the iPhone application platform and assists them in creating Web 2.0 applications that operate on the iPhone and integrate with its services. Author Richard Wagner shares his experience as he guides readers through the process of building new applications from scratch and migrating existing Web 2.0 applications to this new mobile platform.
Utilizing practical examples, the book shows how to build a wide range of solutions--from a basic XHTML/CSS client to an advanced Ajax-enabled database application. As it does so, it helps readers design a user interface that is optimized for the iPhone touch-screen display. Additionally, the book helps readers integrate their applications with iPhone services, including phone dialog, its motion sensor, and Google Maps. With this book, readers will discover how to:
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| 09-24-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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This book was a great start for something I am hoping to do on a regular basis, iPhone development.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-11-04 08:04:54 EST)
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| 03-30-08 | 5 | 5\5 |
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I've never owned a Mac (until now) and never done any development for that platform. While this book doesn't intend to cover the recently released iPhone SDK (it was published before the SDK's release), it does provide excellent coverage of web-based development for the iPhone (and iPod Touch). It leverages a free, open-source library to take much of the grunt work out of it, but also provides detailed code samples and examples and enough information so you could probably do it without the library should you desire. If you're interested in making your site look and feel like an iPhone app, this book will get you there. You should understand HTML, CSS and, preferably, a modicum of Javascript to get the most out of the book.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-09-25 08:06:06 EST)
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| 02-29-08 | 3 | 1\1 |
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It's just a basic web app which are a combile of AJAX and CSS. Not much new.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-03-31 07:46:06 EST)
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| 01-27-08 | 3 | 4\4 |
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This book contains quite some materials from the book you can also find them in Apple's documentations. It also has quite some details on Joe Hewitt's iUI framework. But generally speaking, it lacks more detailed explanation (on CSS, AJAX, JavaScript). Here's the dilema: if you are an experienced CSS and JavaScript developer, you will find it lacking the depth. It barely scratches the surface of what real AJAX-powered iPhone applications can do. If you are somewhat a newbie developer, you will need more explanation on the subject. Unfortunately, this book falls in-between the above 2 scenarios.
After all, this is the first and only book on iPhone programming, it's a nice start for anyone that's interested. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-03-01 07:50:04 EST)
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