Iphone Application Development. Strategies for Efficient Mobile Design and Delivery

✍ Scribed by Jim Hahn (Auth.)

• Publisher: Chandos Publishing
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 172
• Series: Chandos Information Professional Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

iPhone application development is explained here in an accessible treatment for the generalist Library and Information Science (LIS) practitioner. Future information-seeking practices by users will take place across a diverse array of ubiquitous computing devices. iPhone applications represent one of the most compelling new platforms for which to remediate and re-engineer library service. Strategies of efficient mobile design and delivery include adapting computing best practices of data independence and adhering to web standards as articulated by the W3C. These best practices apply across the diverse range of handheld devices and accompanying software development tools. This book is essentially a how-to guide for application development, laying out foundational principles and then moving toward practical implementations.

• Overview and step-by-step development guide with Web Based Applications (the Dash code application)
• Overview and step-by-step development guide using the Native Application Developer (the Xcode application)
• Explaining principles of portability and transferability of systems

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
List of figures, Pages xi-xiv
Acknowledgements, Page xv
About the author, Page xvii
Preface, Pages xix-xxiii
Technology specs, Page xxv
1 - Framing concepts for the iPhone as media with the historical continuity of computing best practice, Pages 1-11
2 - Beginning Dashcode development: remediating an RSS feed to the iPhone, Pages 13-28
3 - Basic Dashcode development: creating a Podcast application, Pages 29-41
4 - Intermediate Dashcode development: video tour iPhone application, Pages 43-66
5 - Designing with Dashcode: using the Custom template, Pages 67-84
6 - Designing a Utility application with Dashcode, Pages 85-94
7 - Introduction to the Xcode module, Pages 95-109
8 - Using the PhoneGap framework within Xcode, Pages 111-122
9 - The future of the iPhone operating system and future mobile computing devices, Pages 123-132
Appendix 1 A safety framework for mobile computing, Pages 133-144
Appendix 2 iPhone orientation, Pages 145-156
Index, Pages 157-158