Building Mobile Apps at Scale

by Gergely Orosz

Author	: Gergely Orosz
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 238
Release	: 2021-04-06
Genre	:
ISBN	: 9781638778868

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While there is a lot of appreciation for backend and distributed systems challenges, there tends to be less empathy for why mobile development is hard when done at scale. This book collects challenges engineers face when building iOS and Android apps at scale, and common ways to tackle these. By scale, we mean having numbers of users in the millions and being built by large engineering teams. For mobile engineers, this book is a blueprint for modern app engineering approaches. For non-mobile engineers and managers, it is a resource with which to build empathy and appreciation for the complexity of world-class mobile engineering. The book covers iOS and Android mobile app challenges on these dimensions: Challenges due to the unique nature of mobile applications compared to the web, and to the backend. App complexity challenges. How do you deal with increasingly complicated navigation patterns? What about non-deterministic event combinations? How do you localize across several languages, and how do you scale your automated and manual tests? Challenges due to large engineering teams. The larger the mobile team, the more challenging it becomes to ensure a consistent architecture. If your company builds multiple apps, how do you balance not rewriting everything from scratch while moving at a fast pace, over waiting on "centralized" teams? Cross-platform approaches. The tooling to build mobile apps keeps changing. New languages, frameworks, and approaches that all promise to address the pain points of mobile engineering keep appearing. But which approach should you choose? Flutter, React Native, Cordova? Native apps? Reuse business logic written in Kotlin, C#, C++ or other languages? What engineering approaches do "world-class" mobile engineering teams choose in non-functional aspects like code quality, compliance, privacy, compliance, or with experimentation, performance, or app size?

Building Mobile Apps at Scale: 39 Engineering Challenges (15 Apr)

by Gergely Orosz

Author	: Gergely Orosz
Publisher	:
Total Pages	:
Release	: 2021-04-15
Genre	:
ISBN	: 9781638778851

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While there is a lot of appreciation for backend and distributed systems challenges, there tends to be less empathy for why mobile development is hard when done at scale.This book collects challenges engineers face when building iOS and Android apps at scale, and common ways to tackle these. By scale, we mean having numbers of users in the millions and being built by large engineering teams.For mobile engineers, this book is a blueprint for modern app engineering approaches. For non-mobile engineers and managers, it is a resource with which to build empathy and appreciation for the complexity of world-class mobile engineering.The book covers iOS and Android mobile app challenges on these dimensions:Challenges due to the unique nature of mobile applications compared to the web, and to the backend.- App complexity challenges. How do you deal with increasingly complicated navigation patterns? What about non-deterministic event combinations? How do you localize across several languages, and how do you scale your automated and manual tests?- Challenges due to large engineering teams. The larger the mobile team, the more challenging it becomes to ensure a consistent architecture. If your company builds multiple apps, how do you balance not rewriting everything from scratch while moving at a fast pace, over waiting on "centralized" teams?- Cross-platform approaches. The tooling to build mobile apps keeps changing. New languages, frameworks, and approaches that all promise to address the pain points of mobile engineering keep appearing. But which approach should you choose? Flutter, React Native, Cordova? Native apps? Reuse business logic written in Kotlin, C#, C++ or other languages?- What engineering approaches do "world-class" mobile engineering teams choose in non-functional aspects like code quality, compliance, privacy, compliance, or with experimentation, performance, or app size?

Lean Mobile App Development

by Mike van Drongelen

Author	: Mike van Drongelen
Publisher	: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages	: 367
Release	: 2017-11-28
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 178646747X

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Develop lean iOS and Android apps using industry standard techniques and lean development practices. About This Book Build ready-to-deploy apps with less iterations and shorter development times Adopt the lean startup methodologies to develop iOS and Android apps that shine in the App Store This hands-on guide puts continuous innovation into practice to develop successful mobile apps Who This Book Is For This book is for developers, CTOs, and architects working for a startup or another kind of lean startup environment, such as start-up within a cooperation. It is is ideal for any iOS and Android developer who wants to build successful mobile apps by adopting the lean startup methodology. What You Will Learn Apply the lean startup methodology to real Android and iOS development Define what your hypotheses are by creating an Minimal Viable Product Validate your idea against the Business Model Canvas Gather feedback through statistics and by getting user comments, learn from it, and adapt your app accordingly Develop skills and devise strategies to build versatile and flexible apps that meet changing business requirements Investigate the possibilities when you need to pivot your start-up idea whether in a startup or an established business. Create a successful app and get tips on how to boostconversion and how to optimize the on boardingprocess. In Detail Lean is the ultimate methodology for creating a startup that succeeds. Sounds great from a theoretical point of view, but what does that mean for you as an a technical co-founder or mobile developer? By applying the Lean Start-up methodology to your mobile App development, it will become so much easier to build apps that take Google Play or the App Store by storm. This book shows you how to bring together smarter business processes with technical know-how. It makes no sense to develop a brilliant app for six months or longer only to find out later that nobody is interested in it. Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) first. Validate your hypotheses early and often. Discover effective product development strategies that let you put Facebook's famous axiom "move fast and break things" into practice. A great app without visibility and marketing clout is nothing, so use this book to market your app, making use of effective metrics that help you track and iterate all aspects of project performance. Style and approach This book takes a hands-on approach to developing apps through the Lean Start-up Methodology. Following a 50% business and 50% tech approach, this book is filled with practical examples and real-world experiments.

Enterprise Class Mobile Application Development

by Leigh Williamson

Author	: Leigh Williamson
Publisher	: IBM Press
Total Pages	: 311
Release	: 2015-11-19
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 0133478661

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Build and Deploy Mobile Business Apps That Smoothly Integrate with Enterprise IT For today’s enterprises, mobile apps can have a truly transformational impact. However, to maximize their value, you can’t build them in isolation. Your new mobile apps must reflect the revolutionary mobile paradigm and delight today’s mobile users--but they must also integrate smoothly with existing systems and leverage previous generations of IT investment. In this guide, a team of IBM’s leading experts show how to meet all these goals. Drawing on extensive experience with pioneering enterprise clients, they cover every facet of planning, building, integrating, and deploying mobile apps in large-scale production environments. You’ll find proven advice and best practices for architecture, cloud integration, security, user experience, coding, testing, and much more. Each chapter can stand alone to help you solve specific real-world problems. Together, they help you establish a flow of DevOps activities and lifecycle processes fully optimized for enterprise mobility.

Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms Preview Edition 2

by Charles Petzold

Author	: Charles Petzold
Publisher	: Microsoft Press
Total Pages	: 1103
Release	: 2015-04-11
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 073569737X

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This second Preview Edition ebook, now with 16 chapters, is about writing applications for Xamarin.Forms, the new mobile development platform for iOS, Android, and Windows phones unveiled by Xamarin in May 2014. Xamarin.Forms lets you write shared user-interface code in C# and XAML that maps to native controls on these three platforms.

App Empire

by Chad Mureta

Author	: Chad Mureta
Publisher	: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages	: 228
Release	: 2012-03-27
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 111810787X

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A guide to building wealth by designing, creating, and marketing a successful app across any platform Chad Mureta has made millions starting and running his own successful app business, and now he explains how you can do it, too, in this non-technical, easy-to-follow guide. App Empire provides the confidence and the tools necessary for taking the next step towards financial success and freedom. The book caters to many platforms including iPhone, iPad, Android, and BlackBerry. This book includes real-world examples to inspire those who are looking to cash in on the App gold rush. Learn how to set up your business so that it works while you don't, and turn a simple idea into a passive revenue stream. Discover marketing strategies that few developers know and/or use Learn the success formula for getting thousands of downloads a day for one App Learn the secret to why some Apps get visibility while others don't Get insights to help you understand the App store market App Empire delivers advice on the most essential things you must do in order to achieve success with an app. Turn your simple app idea into cash flow today!

React Native - Building Mobile Apps with JavaScript

by Vladimir Novick

Author	: Vladimir Novick
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 434
Release	: 2017-08-23
Genre	:
ISBN	: 9781787282537

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Your go-to guide to creating truly native iOS and Android mobile applications using React and JavaScriptAbout This Book* Build cross-platform best seller native mobile applications in JavaScript with React-Native framework* Learn about real world examples like Whatsapp, Instagram or Twitter.* Learn all steps in React Native application development workflow from prototyping to deployment* Get familiar with various mobile APIs covered in React Native framework and learn how to extend it further to non-supported APIsWho This Book Is ForThis book is for JavaScript developers who want to learn how to create native mobile apps using React Native.What You Will Learn* Understand how React Native works under the hood and what makes it an ultimate choice for app development for lots of businesses.* Create real world native apps with complex animations and styles* Get familiar with important iOS and Android native APIs and access them using React Native* Learn authentication techniques and how to connect your app to a real data by using Firebase or your own server* Get familiar with lots of community packages considered as industry standard* Walk through the whole app development workflow by creating Twitter app clone from design to deployment.* Understand application release process to the Apple App Store and Google's Play StoreIn DetailThe emergence of React Native has made creating mobile apps in JavaScript easier for developers. This book introduces you to the React Native framework and the mobile apps development process. It starts with how React Native fits into the world of hybrid apps, and why it's a popular framework. You'll learn how React Native works under the hood--compiling JavaScript to Native code to bridge JavaScript and native apps. Also, you'll learn how to write React Native components and use the ReactJS way of structuring your app. Understand how to use the industry standard Redux architecture as well as MobX--a newly emerging approach for state management--making your apps more robust and scalable.The mobile native world can be intimidating, with lots of platform-specific APIs. In this book, you'll learn about the most important APIs with help of the real-world examples. You'll also learn about the community packages that can help speed up your development. The book explains how to use these packages with JavaScript code, include native modules in your application, and write the modules yourself. Throughout the book, you will see examples of WhatsApp, Instagram, and YouTube apps and learn how to recreate them. You'll also learn debugging and testing techniques, authentication, dealing with real data, and much more.At the end we will walk through design to production process of Twitter app clone and will explain application release process to App Store and Play StoreStyle and approachThis book gives you a solid foundation in building apps with React Native, from the basics to creating a fully functional Twitter clone! With industry best practices, plenty of code examples and complete projects to walk through.

Developing Inclusive Mobile Apps

by Rob Whitaker

Author	: Rob Whitaker
Publisher	: Apress
Total Pages	: 349
Release	: 2020-04-25
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 1484258142

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By failing to consider those with needs different to ourselves, we are telling these people they are not welcome in our app, and therefore that technology as a whole, is not for them. This is not hyperbole—23% of people in the US with a registered disability aren't online at all, that's three times more likely than the general population. When asked why they're not online, disabled respondents say their disability prevents them or that using the internet is too hard. To help your apps combat the issue of digital exclusion, this book covers considerations and tools mobile developers, or anyone creating mobile experiences, can use to make mobile work better for those with disabilities—mental or physical—and how to create a better experience for everyone. Software is not made up of cold, unthinking algorithms. Software is a craft in the truest sense of the word, and one of the greatest tools you can have as a craftsperson is empathy for the people who will be using your app. Each one of whom is an individual with different abilities, experiences, knowledge, and circumstances. What You'll Learn Create mobile experiences that work for as many people as possible Incorporate a worldview of accessibility and customer service into your design Work with accessibility tools and techniques commonly available for developers Who This Book Is For Mobile developers working solo or as part of a team. UX designers, quality engineers, product owners, and anybody working in mobile.

Learning Android

by Marko Gargenta

Author	: Marko Gargenta
Publisher	: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages	: 270
Release	: 2011-03-10
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 1449307248

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Want to build apps for Android devices? This book is the perfect way to master the fundamentals. Written by an expert who's taught this mobile platform to hundreds of developers in large organizations, this gentle introduction shows experienced object-oriented programmers how to use Android’s basic building blocks to create user interfaces, store data, connect to the network, and more. You'll build a Twitter-like application throughout the course of this book, adding new features with each chapter. Along the way, you'll also create your own toolbox of code patterns to help you program any type of Android application with ease. Get an overview of the Android platform and discover how it fits into the mobile ecosystem Learn about the Android stack, including its application framework, and the structure and distribution of application packages (APK) Set up your Android development environment and get started with simple programs Use Android’s building blocks—Activities, Intents, Services, Content Providers, and Broadcast Receivers Learn how to build basic Android user interfaces and organize UI elements in Views and Layouts Build a service that uses a background process to update data in your application Get an introduction to Android Interface Definition Language (AIDL) and the Native Development Kit (NDK)