Product DescriptionThis hands-on, in-depth book introduces developers to the initial release of the iPhone application platform and assists them in creating Web 2.0 applications that operate on the iPhone and integrate with its services. Author Richard Wagner shares his experience as he guides readers through the process of building new applications from scratch and migrating existing Web 2.0 applications to this new mobile platform.
Utilizing practical examples, the book shows how to build a wide range of solutions--from a basic XHTML/CSS client to an advanced Ajax-enabled database application. As it does so, it helps readers design a user interface that is optimized for the iPhone touch-screen display. Additionally, the book helps readers integrate their applications with iPhone services, including phone dialog, its motion sensor, and Google Maps.
With this book, readers will discover how to:
Build an XHTML and CSS UI framework from the ground up
Emulate the look and feel of built-in applications
Integrate public Web 2.0 APIs into applications
Capture finger touch interactions
Use Ajax to load external pages
Create mashups for the iPhone
Store local and remote data
Optimize applications for the EDGE network
Test, debug, and deploy iPhone applications
And more.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Good Coverage of Web-Based iPhone Dev
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 ... Read More
Rating: - basic web app
It's just a basic web app which are a combile of AJAX and CSS. Not much new.
Rating: - ok but not great
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 ... Read More
- Good Coverage of Web-Based iPhone Dev
- basic web app
