Fling, Brian. <br/><br/>
Mobile design and development / 
  Mobile design and development :  practical techniques for creating mobile sites and web apps 
Brian Fling. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Beijing ;   Sebastopol, Calif. :  O'Reilly,   c2009. 
 - xix, 309 p. :  ill. ;   24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Brief history of mobile : In the beginning, The evolution of devices , the brick era, the candy bar era, the feature phone era, the Smartpho ne era, the Touch era -- Mobile ecosystem : Operators, networks, Device s, Platforms, Application frameworks, Java, S60, BREW, Flash Lite, Wind ows Mobile, Cocoa Touch, Android SDK, Web Runtimes (WRTs), WebKit, the Web, applications, services  -- Why mobile? -- Designing for context -- Developing a mobile strategy: forget what you think you know; believe what you see, not what you read; constraints never come first; Focus on context, goals, and needs; you can't support everything; Don't convert , create; Keep it simple -- Types of mobile applications -- Mobile appl ication medium types: SMS; Mobile websites; Mobile web widgets; Mobile web applications; Native applications; Games;  Mobile application media matrix; Application context; Utility context ;  Locale context; Inform ative applications'  Productivity application context ; Immersive full- screen applications;  Application context matrix -- Mobile information architecture -- Mobile desire -- Mobile web apps versus native applicat ions -- Mobile 2.0 -- Mobile web development -- iPhone web apps -- Adap ting to devices -- Making money in mobile -- Supporting  devices -- The future of mobile. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780596155445 0596155441 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010-277736 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mobile computing.<br/>Mobile computing-- Programming.<br/>Application software-- Development.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>005.26