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

The Only Tutorial Covering BOTH iOS and Android for students and professionals alike!

Now, one book can help you master mobile app development with both market-leading platforms: Apples iOS and Googles Android. Perfect for both students and professionals, Learning Mobile App Development is the only tutorial with complete parallel coverage of both iOS and Android. With this guide, you can master either platform, or bothand gain a deeper understanding of the issues associated with developing mobile apps.

Youll develop an actual working app on both iOS and Android, mastering the entire mobile app development lifecycle, from planning through licensing and distribution.

Each tutorial in this book has been carefully designed to support readers with widely varying backgrounds and has been extensively tested in live developer training courses. If youre new to iOS, youll also find an easy, practical introduction to Objective-C, Apples native language.

All source code for this book, organized by chapter, is available at https://www.tradebit.com

Coverage includes

- Understanding the unique design challenges associated with mobile apps
- Setting up your Android and iOS development environments
- Mastering Eclipse development tools for Android and Xcode 5 tools for iOS
- Designing interfaces and navigation schemes that leverage each platforms power
- Reliably integrating persistent data into your apps
- Using lists (Android) or tables (iOS) to effectively present data to users
- Capturing device location, displaying it, and using it in your apps
- Accessing hardware devices and sensors
- Publishing custom apps internally within an organization
- Monetizing your apps on Apples AppStore or the Google Play marketplace, as well as other ways of profiting from app development, such as consulting and developer jobs

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (December 29, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 032194786X
ISBN-13: 978-0321947864