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CouchDB and Erlang: Mobile and Flexible
Damien Katz and Volker Mische introduce CouchDB and explain why it is fit for mobile devices especially due to its replication capability that can handle network connectivity problems.
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HTML5 and the Dawn of Rich Mobile Web Applications
James Pearce introduces cross-platform web apps development using HTML5 and web frameworks, such as jQTouch, jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, PhoneGap, outlining what makes a good framework.
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Beginning Android Development
Christopher Judd makes an introduction to Android development, showing where the start, the tools needed, how to build the first app, how to deploy it, along with mobile development lessons.
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Mobile App Privacy — You’re Doing It Wrong (and So Am I)
Graham Lee advices on how to create an user experience that properly deals with privacy and, in some respect, security issues in mobile applications.
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Introduction to iOS Software Development
Adrian Kosmaczewski makes an introduction to iOS development, presenting the language used, the graphic interface, API, IDE, tools, native apps vs. web, publishing apps, and recommended books.
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Do's and Don'ts on Android
Lars Hesel Christensen shares lessons learned from implementing a mobile banking application for Android, presenting the architecture, the technology&tools used, what works and what should be avoided.
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MDSD on the iPhone
Heiko Behrens shows how to create an iPhone domain specific language using model-driven software development.
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Mobile HTML 5.0
Michael Galpin covers developing mobile web apps, HTML 5, PhoneGap, Appcelerator, Web Sockets, server-side data push, Canvas, CSS3, application cache, video/audio, and mobile platform feature support.
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Android Squared
Bob Lee and Eric Burke present Square, a card reader used to receive payments through an Android device, presenting a point-of-sale API, and a library for persistence and REST communication.
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Mobile Testing Challenge: Why Mobile Apps Need Real-World Testing Coverage and How Crowdsourcing Can Help
Doron Reuveni presents how to use crowdsourcing for testing mobile applications, the specific characteristics of the In-the-Wild testing accompanied by a live demo, and some real-world success stories
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Using RESTful Web Services and Cloud Computing for Next-Generation Mobile Applications
Jason H Christensen presents the evolution of mobile devices, how to integrate mobile systems with the cloud and use RESTful services, what is a basic mobile architecture and how it can be implemented
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Whither the Smartphone? Future Directions in Smartphones and Mobile Development
Adam Blum discusses the current trends in mobile development and smartphones, trying to predict what will happen in this area over the next 5 years so a developer would know what to expect.