Jakob Iversen - Learning Mobile App Development: A Hands-on Guide to Building Apps with iOS and Android

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A Hands-on Guide to Building Apps with iOS and Android

Jakob Iversen
Michael Eierman

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Dedicated to Kim, Katja, Rebecca, and Natasja.
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Welcome to mobile application development!

Developing apps can be fun and is potentially lucrative, but it is also quickly becoming a core skill in the information technology field. Businesses are increasingly looking to mobile apps to enhance their relationships with their customers and improve their internal processes. They need individuals skilled in developing the mobile apps that support these initiatives.

This book is intended to be an introduction to mobile app development. After you successfully complete the book, you will have the basic skills to develop both Android and iPhone/iPad apps. The book takes you from the creation of an app through the publication of the app to its intended audience on both platforms. We (the authors) have been teaching technology for many years at the collegiate level and directly to professionals and strongly believe that the only way to learn a technology is to use it. That is why the book is structured as a series of tutorials that focus on building a complete app on both platforms.

Although the book is an introduction, it does cover many of the unique features of the mobile platforms that make apps a technology offering new capabilities that businesses may use to enrich or augment their operations. The features covered in the book include using the devices capability to determine its location, using hardware sensors and device components in apps, and mapping.

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Jakob Iversen & Michael Eierman, September 2013