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Professional iPhone™ and iPod® touch Programming: Building Applications for Mobile Safari™
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Professional iPhone™ and iPod® touch Programming: Building Applications for Mobile Safari™

by Richard Wagner
January 2008
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
307 pages
6h 49m
English
Wrox
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Introduction

The amazing success of iPhone and iPod touch is a clear indication that application developers are entering a brave new world of sophisticated, multifunctional mobile applications. No longer do applications and various media need to live in separate silos. Instead, applications on these Apple devices can bring together elements of Web 2.0 apps, traditional desktop apps, multimedia video and audio, and the cell phone.

Professional iPhone™ and iPod touch® Programming: Building Applications for Mobile Safari™ covers the various aspects of developing Web-based applications for the iPhone and iPod touch environments. Specifically, you will discover how to create a mobile application from the ground up, utilize existing open source libraries in your code, emulate the look and feel of built-in Apple applications, capture finger-touch interactions, using AJAX to load external pages, and optimize applications for Wi-Fi and the EDGE network.

Whom This Book Is For

This book is aimed primarily at Web developers already experienced in Web 2.0 technologies who want to build new applications for iPhone and iPod touch or migrate existing Web apps to this new platform. Readers should have a working knowledge of the following technologies:

  • HTML/XHTML

  • CSS

  • JavaScript

  • AJAX

What This Book Covers

Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming introduces readers to the Web application platform for iPhone and iPod touch. The book guides readers through the process of building new applications from scratch ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780470251553Purchase book