Seven Mobile Apps in Seven Weeks »

Answer the question "Can we build this for ALL the devices?" with a resounding YES. This book will help you get there with a real-world introduction to seven platforms, whether you're new to mobile or an experienced developer needing to expand your options. Plus, you'll find out which cross-platform solution makes the most sense for your needs.

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On this day in 1880, Thomas Edison was granted the patent for the first light bulb. Choices were a lot simpler back then; if you wanted light, you had to burn something such as a candle, whale oil, or a filament in one of those new-fangled light bulbs (if you were lucky enough to have electricity). Today we've got a lot of choices for light, from LEDs and CF bulbs to that simple blue glow of the mobile screen. And when it comes to mobile, your development choices are many.

Seven Mobile Apps in Seven Weeks: Native Apps, Multiple Platforms is now in beta. Come and see the benefits and challenges across mobile web, native apps, and cross-platform solutions. Find out what will work best for you.

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Seven Mobile Apps in Seven Weeks: Native Apps, Multiple Platforms

Understanding the idioms, patterns, and quirks of the modern mobile platforms gives you the power to choose how you develop. Over seven weeks you'll build seven different mobile apps using seven different tools. You'll start out with Mobile Web; develop native apps on iOS, Android, and Windows; and finish by building apps for multiple operating systems using the native cross-platform solutions RubyMotion, React Native, and Xamarin.

For each platform, you’ll build simple, but non-trivial, apps that consume JSON data, run on multiple screen sizes, or store local data. You’ll see how to test, how to build views, and how to structure code. You’ll find out how much code it's possible to share, how much of the underlying platform you still need to know, and ultimately, you'll get a firm understanding of how to build apps on whichever devices your users prefer.

This book gives you enough first-hand experience to weigh the trade-offs when building mobile apps. You’ll compare writing apps on one platform versus another and understand the benefits and hidden costs of cross-platform tools. You’ll get pragmatic, hands-on experience writing apps in a multi-platform world.

Now available from pragprog.com/book/7apps.

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