Introduction to Mobile Application Development

BJ Basañes Tech co-founder of PicLyf and Cavalcade Games. /
Shiki @shikishiji on Twitter http://shikii.net http://about.me/bjbasanes • Currently building a web startup – http://piclyf.com • Web developer at heart • Getting more interested in mobile apps too • Made a few games on the Flash and iPhone

Objectives • Learn something about Mobile Application Development • We'll
just scratch the surface here • Hopefully encourage you to take up mobile app development

Agenda • Why? • Mobile Platform options • Getting Started
on • Android • iOS • Alternative tools • Other stuffs

WHY? Warning: boring stats up ahead

“There will be 5.3 billion mobile subscriptions by the end
of 2010” 77% of the world population http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats#subscribers

http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2010/06.html Web access through laptops and mobile devices will surpass
access from desktops within the next 5 years

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1466313

http://mashable.com/2010/09/14/mobile-apps-pew-survey/

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/ u-s-teen-mobile-report-calling-yesterday-texting- today-using-apps-tomorrow/

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32674.wss

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aboutdw/2010survey-results/index.html

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=2534

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2010/tc20101020_639668.htm

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/04/13/all-time-top-iphone-app-sales-figures-and-estimates/ $800,000 in 5 months

http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/23/iphone-fart-app-pulls-in-nearly-10000-a-day/

http://www.redmondpie.com/iphone-developer-made-1400-usd-in-a-single-day-using-apple-iad-program-9170/ $1,400 in 1 day

http://www.macrumors.com/2008/08/13/iphone-app-sales-numbers-continue-to-impress/ $158/day

it's the Next Big Thing

It doesn't stop there

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshfassbind/4683365102/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/53147625@N06/4948191526/

http://www.qatarliving.com/node/1053360

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7924511@N08/956321776/

Mobile Platform Options

http://macosrumors.com/2010/06/07/apple-announces-iphone-4-ios-4-imovie/ iOS

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/06/08/surpr http://handies.phandroid.com/media/nexus-one-1 http://computerworld.com.ph/htc-android-phone/ http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/23595/droid/ http://www.thebestdigital.com/ http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/samsung- galaxy-tab-to-be-400-at-t-mobile/

Windows Phone 7 http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2010/09/11/windows-phone-7-coming-to-broadway-for-october-11-launch/

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/27/rim-introduces-playbook-the-blackberry-tablet/ BlackBerry Tablet OS “will replace BlackBerry OS as of
BlackBerry 7”

MeeGo http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/06/30/meego.11.screenshots.video.now.out/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20008808-264.html “Nokia picks MeeGo over Symbian for iPhone
rival”

Others • HP webOS (previously Palm) • Symbian

http://trendsupdates.com/nokia-to-incorporate-google-android-operating-system-to-boost-sales/ Getting started with

Develop on • Linux • MacOS • Windows

http://developer.android.com

XML for views / layouts

IDE • Eclipse (with ADT plugin) • NetBeans • any
Java IDE

Quick Sample http://www.faniq.com/poll_results.php?poll_id=1044778&rnum=

• Android App Market • There are reports about Amazon
launching their own Android App Store Deployment http://www.android.com/market/

iOS Getting started with http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10115613-233.html

Develop on http://www.komplettblog.ie/tag/macbook-pro/

http://developer.apple.com/iphone

Objective-C

IDE • XCode • Interface Builder

Quick Sample http://funtimeshad.com/2010/04/kung-fu-cat/

Deployment: App Store

Alternative Tools

Appcelerator Titanium http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-mobile-application-development/

Features • Code in JavaScript • Compiles to native applications
for iOS and Android • Not exactly cross-platform but close

Quick Sample http://www.myspace.com/koryleal/photos/8243089#%7B%22ImageId%22%3A8243089%7D

Disadvantages • Cannot easily take advantage of bleeding edge APIs
• No true debugging • Weak Android support • Some annoying bugs

Another worth looking at http://www.phonegap.com/

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