Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming: Building Applications for Mobile Safari [Paperback]

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Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Wrox (Jan 11 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470251557
ISBN-13: 978-0470251553
Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 18.8 x 1.7 cm
Shipping Weight: 481 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #282,677 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #11 in Books > Engineering > Telecommunications > Telephone Systems
- #11 in Books > Professional & Technical > Engineering > Telecommunications > Telephone Systems
- #35 in Books > Computers & Internet > Networking > Telephony

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The Safari-exclusive applications for iPhone and iPod touch assemble various elements, and this book shows you how to integrate these elements with key design concepts and principles in order to develop a highly usable interface for the touch screen. You’ll learn to use existing open-source libraries in your code, imitate the overall look and feel of built-in Apple applications, and migrate existing Web 2.0 apps and sites to this new mobile platform. By the end of the book, you’ll feel untouchable as you create a custom mobile application from scratch.

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Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming

The unprecedented success of iPhone and iPod touch serves as proof positive that application developers are entering uncharted territory when it comes to creating sophisticated, multi-functional mobile applications for the revolutionary interface design of the touch screen. The Safari-exclusive applications for these Apple devices assemble elements of Web 2.0 apps, traditional desktop apps, multimedia video and audio, and the cell phone. this book shows you how to integrate these various elements with key design concepts and principles in order to develop a highly usable interface for the touch screen.

You'll learn to use existing open-source libraries in your code, imitate the overall look and feel of built-in Apple applications, and migrate existing Web 2.0 apps and sites to this new mobile platform. Along the way, you'll discover how to design a user interface that is optimized for the touch-screen display. By the end of the book, you'll feel untouchable as you create a custom mobile application from scratch.

What you will learn from this book:

How to design and implement an iPhone user interface
Ways to enable and optimize web sites for iPhone and iPod touch.
Tips for handling touch interactions and capturing JavaScript events
Specific CSS styles that are useful for developing applications
Techniques for integrating applications with core iPhone services including Phone, Mail, and Goolge Maps
How to minimize constraints and maximize bandwidth and app-execution performance
Methods of debugging Mobile Safari applications

Who this book is for:
This book is for web developers who want to build new applications for iPhone and iPod touch. A working knowledge of HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AJAX is necessary.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues t3echnology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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Amazon.com: 4.2 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars ok but not great, Jan 26 2008

By Xavier Facon "XF" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming: Building Applications for Mobile Safari (Paperback)

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.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Coverage of Web-Based iPhone Dev, Mar 30 2008

By K. Ford - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming: Building Applications for Mobile Safari (Paperback)

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.

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than other books that have come out recently., Oct 17 2011

By The Edge "geoatl" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming: Building Applications for Mobile Safari (Paperback)

Purchased this book a couple years ago and I thought it was not so good then. When I bought another book recently covering the same topics, I realized how much better this book was. I actually cracked it back open last week and put out some good exmamples. A decent book amoungst the other Iphone web books.

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