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While there is a lot of appreciation for backend and distributed systems challenges, there tends to be less empathy for why mobile development is hard when done at scale. This book collects challenges engineers face when building iOS and Android apps at scale, and common ways to tackle these. By scale, we mean having numbers of users in the millions and being built by large engineering teams. For mobile engineers, this book is a blueprint for modern app engineering approaches. For non-mobile engineers and managers, it is a resource with which to build empathy and appreciation for the complexity of world-class mobile engineering. The book covers iOS and Android mobile app challenges on these dimensions: Challenges due to the unique nature of mobile applications compared to the web, and to the backend. App complexity challenges. How do you deal with increasingly complicated navigation patterns? What about non-deterministic event combinations? How do you localize across several languages, and how do you scale your automated and manual tests? Challenges due to large engineering teams. The larger the mobile team, the more challenging it becomes to ensure a consistent architecture. If your company builds multiple apps, how do you balance not rewriting everything from scratch while moving at a fast pace, over waiting on "centralized" teams? Cross-platform approaches. The tooling to build mobile apps keeps changing. New languages, frameworks, and approaches that all promise to address the pain points of mobile engineering keep appearing. But which approach should you choose? Flutter, React Native, Cordova? Native apps? Reuse business logic written in Kotlin, C#, C++ or other languages? What engineering approaches do "world-class" mobile engineering teams choose in non-functional aspects like code quality, compliance, privacy, compliance, or with experimentation, performance, or app size?

Sencha Touch, an open source tool, fills the space between the HTML and the native app. Web apps are generally built using JavaScript but this short ebook shows you how to construct your mobile Web sites using Sencha Touch - you just need to be familiar with Javascript. Sencha Touch targets specific devices, namely iOS, Android 2.1+ and Blackberry 6 devices. Web Apps are a critical element of the future of mobile developmen find out how to easily construct them with this brief intro to Sencha Touch!

The market for mobile apps continues to evolve at a breakneck pace, as tablets join the parade of smartphones and feature phones. If you’re an experienced web developer, this second edition of this popular book shows you how to build HTML5 and CSS3-based apps that access geolocation, accelerometer, multi touch screens and other features in these mobile devices. You’ll learn how to build a standard app core that you can extend to work with specific devices. You’ll also discover how to deal with platform variations, browsers, native web platforms, HTML5 compatibility, design patterns for mobile development, and other issues. Learn how to use your existing web skills to move into mobile development Discover the particulars and pitfalls of building mobile apps with HTML5, CSS, and other standard web tools Create effective user interfaces in the mobile environment for touch and non-touch devices Understand variations among iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and other mobile platforms Bypass the browser to create full screen and native web apps, e-books and Apache Cordova (PhoneGap) applications Build apps for the App Store, Google Play Store, Windows Marketplace, App World, and other online retailers

Build HTML5-powered mobile web experiences with the aid of development frameworks that speed the development of Native App-like experiences. Build on your foundation of HTML and JavaScript with a complete understanding of the different mobile Web browser technologies. You get carefully detailed techniques that are illustrated in full color so you can leverage the Web technologies unique to each mobile browser, apply frameworks such as Sencha Touch to rapidly build out your designs, and design techniques expressly suited for tablet devices. Projects provide hands-on practice and code is provided on the companion website, www.visualizetheweb.com.

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