Mobile Design and Development: Practical Concepts and Techniques for Creating Mobile Sites and Web Apps (Animal Guide)
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Mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one worldwide, yet little information is available for designing and developing mobile applications. Mobile Design and Development fills that void with practical guidelines, standards, techniques, and best practices for building mobile products from start to finish. With this book, you’ll learn basic design and development principles for all mobile devices and platforms. You’ll also explore the more advanced capabilities of the mobil
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Review by E. Peck for Mobile Design and Development: Practical Concepts and Techniques for Creating Mobile Sites and Web Apps (Animal Guide)
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Anyone looking to moving into the mobile space as a developer or manager should take the time to read this book. Fling brings a considerable amount of experience to the table and gives an incredible survey of the situation as it exists now. Failing to take into account all the valuable information here would be foolish.
The tone and style are refreshing. Fling doesn’t try to be cute or work up a side-line as a comedian. This is just straight out guidance, dealing with real world considerations that keeps things from being too dry.
There isn’t much in the way of detailed implementation as this is an overview of the whole landscape. This is what should be read before a project is begun, not somewhere in the middle when code is already being written. Fling makes a great case for mobile web apps and gives some very practical guidance in their creation. It’s really the only platform wide enough to fit in the book. Anything else would require an extremely narrow focus that wouldn’t fit the rest of the book.
I enjoyed reading this and learned a lot in the process. One can’t really ask for more.
Fling is a huge fan of the iPhone and spends a whole chapter describing web development for the iPhone. Since webkit exists in other smart phones, the information is applicable to other platforms for the most part but I would have preferred something less tied to one phone from one vendor. My bias is toward android, but there are plenty of iPhone and Android development books. I can use those once I’ve moved on to specifics. But this is really a very small issue in relation to the excellent information and presentation in this book.
There is one other issue I almost forgot. There are pie charts in the book, which is black and white. Some of the ’slices’ are so close to one another in color that it was pretty much impossible for me to tell where they started and stopped. It doesn’t hurt the book too much but needs to be fixed in future editions. Fling explains the charts, so one can infer where things are but that means the charts are not even necessary or helpful.
But if those are the biggest problems with a tech book, it’s doing pretty well in my estimation.
Review by Kevin Suttle for Mobile Design and Development: Practical Concepts and Techniques for Creating Mobile Sites and Web Apps (Animal Guide)
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Many people would pay for the information Brian Fling has assembled here. Project managers, and even clients need to read and digest this book before starting a mobile initiative. You have no idea how gigantic and varied the mobile industry is until you’ve heard it from Brian Fling.
Review by A. S. Gledhill for Mobile Design and Development: Practical Concepts and Techniques for Creating Mobile Sites and Web Apps (Animal Guide)
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If you want a book that gets you started on all the foundation concepts of mobile and further inspires you to create mobile web apps and how to do it, this book is for you.
If you are currently writing iPhone apps, are just interested in developing or designing for the mobile space or simply want an overview of ‘Mobile 2.0′, this will get you up to speed very quickly.
Highly recommended.
Review by Barbara Ballard for Mobile Design and Development: Practical Concepts and Techniques for Creating Mobile Sites and Web Apps (Animal Guide)
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In this book, Brian Fling has truly focused on mobile web, only veering off into other mobile topics to understand the full ecosystem. This is not a generic mobile design book, but a mobile web design & implementation book. You’ll gain an understanding of the mobile industry and how the different players affect what you can and can not do. You’ll get a better idea of how mobile browsers work. And you’ll get lots of detail on what typically works and what doesn’t. Brian has spent a lot of time actually making designs work, and you benefit.
I do disagree with him on a small number of topics, but you can go to either of our companies’ sites and deduce what they are. These disagreements, such as whether to rely solely on progressive enhancement, will not interfere with your learning from this book.
Review by Frank for Mobile Design and Development: Practical Concepts and Techniques for Creating Mobile Sites and Web Apps (Animal Guide)
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A pretty good survey piece; lots of “things to think about”, but short on specifics — prob because the device world is SO fluid. It serves as background, but there’s not much to act on.