Programming with mobile applications : Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 7 / Thomas J. Duffy..

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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Computer of the Future Is in Your Hand -- What You Need to Know -- Mobile Device Programming -- How Do You Choose a Platform? -- What Is a Smartphone? -- History of the Smartphone -- Device Capabilities -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- Up for Discussion -- Programming Exercises -- ch. 2 Developing for Small Devices -- Platform Architecture -- The Android Platform -- The iOS Platform -- The Windows Phone 7 Platform -- The App Life Cycle -- The Android App Life Cycle -- The iOS App Life Cycle -- The Windows Phone 7 App Life Cycle -- Comparing Life Cycles -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- Up for Discussion -- Research Projects -- ch. 3 Best Practices for Small Device Programming -- Object-Oriented Programming -- Encapsulation -- Inheritance -- Polymorphism -- Design Patterns -- Model-View-Controller -- Delegates -- Optimization -- Strings, Buffers, and Operations -- Loops and Conditional Statements -- Memory Management -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- Up for Discussion -- Programming Exercises -- ch. 4 Google Android: App Inventor -- Review of the Android Architecture -- Your First App: Hello App Inventor -- Designing a User Interface -- Working with Blocks -- Running in the Emulator -- Detective Work -- Advanced Android Apps: Where's My Phone? -- Packaging and Deploying Applications -- Detective Work -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- Up for Discussion -- Programming Exercises -- ch. 5 Google Android: Motorola MOTODEV Studio -- Eclipse and MOTODEV Studio -- Android App Development -- The Anatomy of a Java Class -- Your First Android App: Hello Android! -- Running in the Emulator -- Detective Work -- Working with MOTODEV Studio and Eclipse -- Advanced Android Apps: DotSmasher -- Detective Work -- Packaging and Deploying Apps in MOTODEV Studio -- Advanced Android Apps: Where's My Phone? -- Detective Work -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- Up for Discussion -- Programming Exercises -- ch. 6 Apple iOS -- An Objective-C Primer -- Back to the Beginning -- Moving Forward: Hello iPhone! -- Detective Work -- Troubleshooting -- Advanced iOS Apps: ButtonChaser -- Detective Work -- Working with the iOS Development Tools -- Packaging and Deploying iOS Apps -- So Where Is Where's My Phone? -- Using the Core Location Framework -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- Up for Discussion -- Programming Exercises -- ch. 7 Microsoft Windows Phone 7 -- A Quick Look at C# -- Your First Windows Phone 7 App: Hello Windows! -- Running in the Emulator -- Detective Work -- Working with Visual Studio 2010 -- Advanced Windows Phone 7 Apps: ButtonChaser -- Detective Work -- Packaging and Deploying Windows Phone 7 Apps -- Again, Where Is Where's My Phone? -- Using the Location Service -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- Up for Discussion -- Programming Exercises -- ch. 8 Web Applications -- Developing for Mobile Browsers -- Choosing an Editor -- Detective Work -- A Quick Look at Web Technologies -- HTML -- CSS -- JavaScript -- Your First Web App: Hello Web! -- Testing Web Apps in Emulators -- Android -- Ios -- Windows Phone 7 -- Detective Work -- Advanced Web App: DotSmasher -- Detective Work -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- Up for Discussion -- Programming Exercises -- ch. 9 Cross-Platform Development with PhoneGap -- Introducing PhoneGap -- Your First PhoneGap App: Hello PhoneGap! -- Creating the Project Files in MOTODEV Studio -- Creating the Project with Existing Files in Xcode -- Detective Work -- Advanced PhoneGap Apps: DotSmasher -- Creating the Project Files in Xcode -- Creating the Project with Existing Files in MOTODEV Studio -- Detective Work -- Using PhoneGap's Geolocation API -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- Up for Discussion -- Programming Exercises -- APPENDIX A Installation and Setup -- Android -- App Inventor -- MOTODEV Studio -- Apple iOS -- Windows Phone 7 -- PhoneGap -- Using PhoneGap with Xcode 3 -- Using PhoneGap with MOTODEV Studio -- Getting Help.