Mobile Software
By Mitch Allen
This is the official guide to building native JavaScript applications for Palm's new mobile operating system, Palm® webOS. Written by Palm's software chief technology officer along with the Palm webOS development team, Palm webOS offers yo...
[Publish Date: July 2009]
Android Application Development, 1st Edition
By Rick Rogers, John Lombardo, Zigurd Mednieks, Blake Meike
This practical book provides the concepts and code you need to develop software with Android, the open-source platform for cell phones and mobile devices that's generating enthusiasm across the industry. Android Application Development introduces thi...
[Publish Date: May 2009]
Hello, Android, Second Edition--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf: Introducing ...
Raleigh, NC—Watch out, iPhone. Here comes Android. Android combines the ubiquity of cell phones, the excitement of open source software, and the corporate backing of Google and other Open Handset Alliance members. The result is a mobile ...
[Publish Date: November 17, 2009]
Hello, Android--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf: Introducing Google's Mobile ...
--> Raleigh, NC—Android offers a compelling, fresh take on mobile applications. It blends the ubiquity of cell phones, the excitement of open source software, and the corporate backing of Google and other Open Handset Alliance members such...
[Publish Date: January 26, 2009]
By Ed Burnette
Android combines the ubiquity of cell phones, the excitement of open source software, and the corporate backing of Google and other Open Handset Alliance members. The result is a mobile platform you can't afford not to learn. This second edition is c...
[Publish Date: October 2009]
Other Editions: 1st Edition
Speaker: Michael Tamblyn: O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing ...
Michael Tamblyn, VP Content, Sales & Merchandising for Shortcovers, works at the intersection of culture, trade, and technology. From a start in independent bookselling as a magazine and small press buyer, in 1996 he co-founded Bookshelf.ca, one of Canada’s first online bookstores, in partnership with Bell Sympatico. Indigo Books & Music purchased Bookshelf.ca in 1998, and Michael moved to the chain as vice-president of online operations. He later consulted in technology and media sectors before becoming the founding CEO of BookNet Canada in March of 2003. During his tenure, BookNet Canada launched B2B trading networks serving hundreds of bookstores and publishers, created standards, certification programs and software, and launched BNC SalesData, the national book sales tracking service. At Shortcovers, he is responsible for sales, publisher and industry relations, content acquisition, and the merchandising experience across all of Shortcovers’ web and mobile services. He is also...
[Publish Date: February 22, 2010]
GNOME Mobile: OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 20 - 24, 2009, San ...
By Dave Neary, Paul Cooper
GNOME Mobile is a collection of community projects which are at the heart of an increasing number of mobile Linux platforms. We will present the genesis of the initiative, the state of the art, and our plans for the project, as we become increasingly relevant to free software mobile developers.
[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]
Mobile Banks in the Developing World Prove Simpler is Better - O'Reilly Radar
By Ben Lorica
Recent initiatives designed to make U.S. consumer financial products simpler and intelligible to customers, reminds me of a study we did on Mobile Banks in the developing world. Designed to work on the simplest mobile devices and originally targeting the unbanked, mobile banks evolved from simple services to become widely used money-transfer and mobile payment systems. While it's technically easy to roll out a rudimentary mobile payment system, the most successful mobile banks in the developing world use complex software systems that handle more (near) real-time transactions than traditional banking systems.
[Publish Date: September 17, 2009]
Giving Your Mobile Apps a Sense of Place: Where 2.0 Conference 2009 - ...
By Dave Johnson
Combining the web and geo location in smart phones is one most powerful technology combinations in software development today. Moving your web application to a mobile device is quick and easy using open source web technologies. Learn how to move your web app to the modern smart phone.
[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]
Mobile Social Location, a Practical Guide: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2009 - ...
By Matt Biddulph
It's a great time to be building mobile location apps. Phones with GPS and compasses are now widely deployed, with good mobile data plans available. Projects like Geonames and OpenStreetMap are creating reusable datasets that provide the data backbone for your service. Open source mapping and GIS software is getting better and better.
[Publish Date: November 16, 2009]
Prepare your iPhone Software for 1.1.3: running as "mobile" - O'Reilly ...
By Erica Sadun
If you want to find out how your software will run under 1.1.3 and the SDK, I recommend you test it out under 1.1.2 or 1.1.1 as user "mobile". First, consider where all your resources will be located (in /var/mobile rather than /var/root). Next, start thinking from a ~mobile perspective. Issue a "sudo - mobile" from the command line and...
[Publish Date: January 24, 2008]
Prepare your iPhone Software for 1.1.3: running as "mobile" - Inside iPhone
By Erica Sadun
If you want to find out how your software will run under 1.1.3 and the SDK, I recommend you test it out under 1.1.2 or 1.1.1 as user "mobile". First, consider where all your resources will be located (in /var/mobile...
[Publish Date: January 24, 2008]
