Programming Mobile Devices: An Introduction for Practitioners

Foreword by Antero Taivalsaari

I've known Tommi for several years, both as a colleague and as a friend. Ever since first meeting him, Tommi has been passionate about mobile devices and mobile software development, not only as a professor and an academic researcher, but also as an enthusiastic mobile software developer himself.

Tommi has pioneered the teaching of mobile software development in Finland. He arranged the first university-level courses on mobile software development in Finland back in 2001, and in the past years he has instructed over a thousand students to become proficient in this exciting and rapidly evolving field. Unfortunately, the extensive lecture material that Tommi has prepared for his mobile software development courses has been available only in Finnish so far.

In this book, Tommi makes his expertise in mobile software development available also to English-speaking software developers and students. The book presents a comprehensive summary of all the central areas in mobile software development, ranging from fundamental topics such as memory and resource management to application design, networking, concurrency and security.

Rather than focusing on specific technologies, devices or operating systems, this book takes a different approach and presents a summary of the component areas and issues that are common to all the mobile software platforms. This should result in a more “timeless” book that should stand the test of time well, unlike so many other books ...