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Beginning Smartphone Web Development: Building JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax-based Applications for iPhone, Android, Palm Pre, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Nokia S60 [Paperback]

Gail Frederick (Author), Rajesh Lal (Author)
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Publication Date: January 15, 2010 | ISBN-10: 143022620X | ISBN-13: 978-1430226208 | Edition: 1

Today’s Web 2.0 applications (think Facebook and Twitter) go far beyond the confines of the desktop and are widely used on mobile devices. The mobile Web has become incredibly popular given the success of the iPhone and BlackBerry, the importance of Windows Mobile, and the emergence of Palm Pre (and its webOS platform). At Apress, we are fortunate to have Gail Frederick of the well-known training site Learn the Mobile Web offer her expert advice in Beginning Smartphone Web Development. In this book, Gail teaches the web standards and fundamentals specific to smartphones and other feature-driven mobile phones and devices.

  • Shows you how to build interactive mobile web sites using web technologies optimized for browsers in smartphones
  • Details markup fundamentals, design principles, content adaptation, usability, and interoperability
  • Explores cross-platform standards and best practices for the mobile Web authored by the W3C, dotMobi, and similar organizations
  • Dives deeps into the feature sets of the most popular mobile browsers, including WebKit, Chrome, Palm Pre webOS, Pocket IE, Opera Mobile, and Skyfire

By the end of this book, you’ll have the training, tools, and techniques for creating robust mobile web experiences on any of these platforms for your favorite smartphone or other mobile device.

What you’ll learn

  • Build interactive mobile web pages that comply with industry standards and best practices.
  • Develop web sites using the markup languages of the mobile Web: XHTML-MP, Wireless CSS, and WML.
  • Use Mobile JavaScript and Ajax for client-side web interactivity.
  • Adapt the syntax and design of mobile web pages to target smartphone models.
  • Enhance mobile web pages to target advanced features of smartphone browsers.
  • Validate and compress mobile markup to optimize for network transmission and browser performance.
  • Simulate smartphone browsers using emulators and development tools.

Who this book is for

Mobile application developers and their managers need to learn mobile web technologies because it’s in their economic interest. Time-to-market and opportunity costs are significantly lower for web-based mobile applications than for native ones.

Desktop web developers at software companies and IT departments of non-technology businesses need to learn mobile web technologies to meet the demands of managers who will soon be asking them to “mobilize this web site.” These developers will want to do the minimum work possible to maximize the compatibility of their mobile web sites. The standards-based approach advocated in this book will allow them to build gracefully adaptive and portable mobile web experiences that perform well across mobile browser platforms.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction to Mobile Web Development
  2. Set Up Your Mobile Web Development Environment
  3. Mobile Markup Languages
  4. Device Awareness and Content Adaptation
  5. Adding Interactivity with JavaScript and AJAX
  6. Mobile Web Usability
  7. Enhancing Mobile Web Pages for Smartphone Browsers
  8. Optimizing Mobile Markup
  9. Validating Mobile Markup
  10. Testing a Mobile Web Site
  11. Deploying a Mobile Web Site
  12. How to Play Well in the Mobile Ecosystem
  13. The Future of the Mobile Web

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About the Author

Gail Rahn Frederick is an expert web developer and software architect in the mobile industry. Her products target 500+ device models and have been deployed at 10+ mobile operators in North America and Europe. She advocates standards-based mobile development techniques as a blogger and conference presenter.

Gail teaches standards-based mobile web development in Portland, Oregon. Her students learn mobile markup languages, mobile design and usability, content adaptation, best practices, advanced web development for smartphones and defensive programming for the mobile ecosystem.



Rajesh Lal is an author, designer, developer, and technology evangelist working at Nokia in Mountain View, California. Rajesh has been involved in mobile user interface/user experience design for past five years and has hands-on experience with a variety of Mobile devices, namely Sony Mylo, Window's Mobile, Apple's iPhone, Nokia S60, and Maemo devices. He has authored multiple books on gadgets and widgets and enjoys taking an objective and pragmatic approach to design. His tutorial on how to design an effective user interface for small devices can be found at http://smallinterface.com.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (January 15, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 143022620X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430226208
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Mobile web development is very current nowadays and the books out there now is very slim in explaining all the technologies that are neccessary. This book is a godsend for web developers who really need a reference book on understanding what issues and concerns must be taken on trying to get your mobile web page viewable on the thousands of different web platforms there are.

Web browsers in mobile devices aim to comply with web and mobile industry standards. The author teaches you the standards, best practices and development techniques for building interactive mobile web pages for browsers in smartphones and other mobile devices.

The standards-based mobile web browser is the most promising cross-platform mobile technology. The author based this book on his courses he teaches based upon his many years of experiennce in deploying mobile web applications around the world.

The examples are easy to follow and help get you up and running in a short time.

Its a great book and should be in your computer book library.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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It is a very well written book. The book provides a very good overview and a overall birds eye view of most of the mobile platforms. This book is not in depth, but thats exactly what the title says 'Beginning'. If you want in depth you can view some of their other series. The book is like a movie trailer, if you want to see the whole movie, there are other book by the same publisher, and same series. Its great for people who don't want to get into the details, but would like to select their favorite mobile platform, by seeing what every platform has to offer. The language and style is excellent, and the information flows smoothly. The book does contain codes and examples to try. The book help a starter to navigate the complex waters of mobile platform development with great ease. Highly recommended for mobile platform starters.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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This book is an excellent source of information for the mobile web developer. It assumes you have prior knowledge of web development and takes you straight in to the mobile web. The information presented is extremely relevant. There is a section about useful add-ons for Firefox as a tool for web development. There are references about the MIME types used in mobile web. I specially liked the four case studies which examined four popular mobile web sites: Bank of America, CNN, Flickr and Wikipedia. The book also is supported by code examples in their website which is especially useful in web development.
It ends with a chapter interviewing a panel of experts about the future of mobile web which was very interesting and comprehensive.
Altogether, I highly recommend this book to experienced developers looking to create mobile web content. I plan to use the newly acquired knowledge to create the mobile web version of my protesting web site (BeMeProtest).
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Smartphone good book
Pros: This book is rich in information. It covers all major carriers and smartphones in good detail. Read more
Published 13 months ago by David R. Harrier
A really nice book but lacks details
Based on what the book showed and the title I expected that it would have had more details as to how to create the apps but details are quite limited. Read more
Published 13 months ago by bawn2cute
It's nice to have
This book covers a lot of information. Yes, it's not a programming book that shows you how a project is done. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Alvin Yue
Well articulated book
The book has the necessary content for absolute beginners and is a complete breeze for developers like me. Easy to use, enough content and fun. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Lord Explorer
Too vague
No good real-world examples. It's more like a class lecture than teaching how to build a web application.
Published 18 months ago by Anto
Helps with understanding design concepts.
This book turned out to have some solid information on figuring out the designing and packaging concepts you need to keep in mind when setting up an appliction for a tiny screen... Read more
Published 20 months ago by dsantiago
Beginning Smartphone Web Development
Even though I am a .NET developer, I found the book contained a lot of information that is relevant to my future plans. Mobile is here to stay and growing exponetially. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Jerry
Nice book and covers a great deal of devices
The book is good if you are a beginner and covers a variety of Mobile device and lot of topics related to mobile design and development. Read more
Published on February 14, 2010 by Elar Alexander
Interesting book
I just finish the book and take me almost 10 days to read it. There are 2 reasons for it, one is I read a few books about mobile web before and the books is little boring. Read more
Published on January 21, 2010 by Techno Warrior
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