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Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming: Building Applications for Mobile Safari (Wrox Professional Guides)

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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.

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.

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.

I am a .NET web developer and had to look for a way to develop applications for mobile devices without having to switch development environments. That naturally meant my application would have to be browser-based as both iOS & Android require non-ASP.NET environments.

I did settle on an approach using ASP.NET MVC and then came across this book. It cleared out a lot of questions that I had spent hours pondering and gnashing my teeth over. My application detects the target device and switches CSS & HTML templates to conform to the client device. While this book does not help me broadly in regards to my application, it will make my CSS & HTML templates for iOS so much more sophisticated and efficient as I can incorporate platform-specific tweaks.

I especially loved the chapters on "Styling with CSS", "Integrating with iPhone Services", "Enabling and Optimizing Sites.." and "Testing and Debugging".

If you are familiar with JavaScript and CSS and would like to develop web-based applications for the iPhone, then this book will certainly help!

This book was a great start for something I am hoping to do on a regular basis, iPhone development.

It's just a basic web app which are a combile of AJAX and CSS. Not much new.