Getting Started with iPhone SDK, Android and others: Mobile Application Development – Create your Mobile Applications Best Practices Guide
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This book covers the known relative differences between the most popular mobile platform development options for handheld devices such as personal digital assistants, enterprise digital assistants or mobile phones. It helps guide developers in choosing a mobile platform for development on Information appliances, and covers iPhone SDK, Android, Java ME, Symbian, Lazarus, Python, .NET, BREW, Pocket PC, Microsoft Smartphone, Palm OS, Flash Lite and Microbrowser. This book discusses everything from
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Review by Robin for Getting Started with iPhone SDK, Android and others: Mobile Application Development – Create your Mobile Applications Best Practices Guide
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The book’s seems to be targeting application developers. In fact, the author put this on the page before the table of contents
The heading is
“Mobile Application Development 100 Success Secrets” which
“… is NOT about the ins and outs of Mobile Application development. ..”
” This book is also NOT about Mobile Appication Development’ best practice and standards details. Instead, it introduces everything you want to know to be sucessful with Mobile Application Development”
But how to be successful ?
The author compiled 100 articles, each one page and a few lines long, (proper formatting can make each article, typically less than 400 words, fit into one page) for the so called top 100 questions found in forums and the author’s consultancy and education programs.
I think probably all mobile developer can answer 90% of the questions far better than the author. Take for example, on page 78,
“The Secrets of an Effective Mobile Application Development Tool”
The first half of the article is opening remarks, which need not be shown.
The second half is very short as you know, can be easily be included below:
“What is the general proeductivity feature of the tool?
“Of course, you would want to have a tool which productivity rate is at par with the best tools. When you make an evaluation on the tools that you are making, it is best that you check on the capability of the tool to produce better results.
“Is the productivity feature matching with the price of the tool?
“As a businessman, money plays a verfy important role. It is e3ssential that you carefully assess whether or not the money that is to be shelled out from buying the tool is highly compensated with what it can provide you as the user.
Did you learn anything from these lines. I find only part of the last sentence useful.
“… whether or not the money that is to be shelled out … is highly compensated”
Judge for yourself. Unfortunately, only the book cover is shown for you to judge.
Review by Atanas Banov for Getting Started with iPhone SDK, Android and others: Mobile Application Development – Create your Mobile Applications Best Practices Guide
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Probably the worst book ever on iPhone or Android programming.
Actually scratch that, because it doesn’t say anything meaningful about writing software for mobile platforms. The “chapters” inside are 1-2 pages long each and are as made by cutting and pasting marketroid articles you will find in ComputerWordl/InformationWeek or even newspapers targeted at general population. There is no technical or usable information whatsoever.
Bad typography (if that is not apparent from the cover). Big fonts, no illustrations, no info on the author or reviews. The title of the book printed inside is different from the title on the cover!
Consider yourself warned. I was so lucky I didn’t buy the book but borrowed it from the library… Waste of time, I pity the next innocent readers.
Review by LM for Getting Started with iPhone SDK, Android and others: Mobile Application Development – Create your Mobile Applications Best Practices Guide
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This book was useless to me. I truly cannot fathom the person that it would benefit. I returned mine the day that I received it. I was forced to rate the book to submit this review. I wanted to give it no stars but the lowest that I could do was a 1.
Review by Thoroughly Disgusted for Getting Started with iPhone SDK, Android and others: Mobile Application Development – Create your Mobile Applications Best Practices Guide
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The second page reads “There has never been a mobile application development guide like this”. This is absolutely true.
When I opened the book and looked through it, I thought it was some kind of a joke or fraternity prank. My 14-year-old laughed until he cried when I showed it to him.
I expected it to be a technical reference manual, but instead it points you to other technical reference manuals, similar to a cookbook that points you to other cookbooks, without containing any actual recipes. Of course I returned it.
Mr. Hall sure knows how to insult a person’s intelligence. I wish I could give this book a negative rating for wasting my time.
It did, however, give me an idea to co-author a book with my dog. If that pans out I will owe Mr. Hall an apology.