Mobile, How Do I Develop Thee? Let Me Count the Ways (Long Version)

Mobile development is a bit like writing web apps back in the browser war days - full of decision anxiety, volatility and platform specific issues. There is no one true answer yet most people think there should be. This talk will cover the popular(ish) options from native all the way to web solutions (and all the mashup magic in-between). Oh yes and some opinion as well.

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1. Mobile, How Do I Develop Thee? Let Me Count The Ways
2. This guy is a liar! word he says Don’t believe a
3. Mobile Software Development Hurts !
4. j Fanbois! Costs Breadth of Skills Moving Target Testing
5. j The Not-Really-Real Mobile Development Wall of Pain Game
6. Fanbois! Costs Breadth of Skills Moving Target Testing
7. Fanbois! Costs Breadth of Skills Moving Target Testing
8. Fanbois! -@-
9. Mobile Technology Spectrum a.k.a make love not war Native Web
10. Native Web Requirements Technology & Needs
11. Native Web Requirements 1 1 1 1 p p p 1 Doin’ It Wrong! p Doin’ It Right!
12. Fanbois, cant live with them, can’t...
13. Ways to Achieve Technology Harmony
14. WebViews & Bridges addJavascriptInterface() Custom URL Schemes ScriptNotify/InvokeScript HTTP Server
15. PhoneGap/Cordova
16. Fanbois! Costs Breadth of Skills Moving Target Testing
17. Fanbois! Costs Breadth of Skills Moving Target Testing
18. -@- Costs
19. iOS Developer MacBook $999 - $1299 iOS Developer Program $99 iPhone/iPad/iPod $199 - $650 $1.3k - $2k
20. Android Developer Registration Fee $25 Android Dev Phone $399 Other Devices $200 - $600 $0.7k - $1k
21. WP7 Developer Registration Fee $99 Test Device/Phone $200 - $900 Windows 7 $100 $0.4k - $1.1k
22. Cross Platform Tools Or Build-Once-Deploy-Anywhere will NOT save you much money!
23. Costs are an inevitable part of doing business
24. Fanbois! Costs Breadth of Skills Moving Target Testing
25. Fanbois! Costs Breadth of Skills Moving Target Testing
26. -@- Testing
27. Manual testing on the simulator is simply not enough!
28. Access to apps on a device can be very difficult
29. weinre
30. TestingWithFrank Robotium etc. WP7 Test Framework
31. lesspainful.com
32. How can you be sure you built the right thing?
33. Beta Testing TestFlight AppHub Hockey App
34. Fanbois! Costs Breadth of Skills Moving Target Testing
35. Fanbois! Costs Breadth of Skills Moving Target Testing
36. Moving Target -@-
37. EULA Changes Web Storage Locations Deprecated DeviceID Fragmentation App Store Submission
38. Expect change Never trust the vendors Don’t do anything too “weird”
39. Fanbois! Costs Breadth of Skills Moving Target Testing
40. Fanbois! Costs Breadth of Skills Moving Target Testing
41. Breadth of Skills -@-
42. Windows Phone 7 Apple iOS Blackberry Android Platforms Various Feature Phones Symbian
43. Java ME (Various) Objective-C JavaScript C# Languages
44. Cross Platform Tools can help reduce the burden of technology sprawl
45. PhoneGap Build
46. MonoTouch Mono for Android
47. And we haven’t even mentioned the server-side! Not every app will be a self contained solution
48. Server-side Needs Push Notifications? Authentication? Data Storage/Retrieval? Analytics? In App Purchases?
49. You may not need or want to re-invent the wheel
50. Specific Needs Flurry Urban Airship iCloud
51. All The Things! parse.com
52. james@yobriefca.se @kouphax