Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming: Building Applications for Mobile Safari (Wrox Professional Guides)
Written by: Richard Wagner
Editorial Reviews:
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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Customer Rating:
Summary: iPhone Development
Comment: This book was a great start for something I am hoping to do on a regular basis, iPhone development.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Coverage of Web-Based iPhone Dev
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: basic web app
Comment: It's just a basic web app which are a combile of AJAX and CSS. Not much new.
Customer Rating:
Summary: ok but not great
Comment: 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.
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.76
EAN: 9780470251553
ISBN: 0470251557
Label: Wrox
Manufacturer: Wrox
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 284
Publication Date: 2008-01-29
Publisher: Wrox
Studio: Wrox
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Editorial Reviews:
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.
If you like "Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming: Building Applications for Mobile Safari (Wrox Professional Guides), you might also like ...
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating:
Summary: iPhone Development
Comment: This book was a great start for something I am hoping to do on a regular basis, iPhone development.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Coverage of Web-Based iPhone Dev
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: basic web app
Comment: It's just a basic web app which are a combile of AJAX and CSS. Not much new.
Customer Rating:
Summary: ok but not great
Comment: 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.
Technical Details
Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 006.76
EAN: 9780470251553
ISBN: 0470251557
Label: Wrox
Manufacturer: Wrox
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 284
Publication Date: 2008-01-29
Publisher: Wrox
Studio: Wrox
