Designing Platform Independent Mobile Apps and Services: Your Idea, on Any Device, Anywhere - Hardcover

Heckman, Rocky

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1119060141 ISBN 13: 9781119060147

Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr, 2016

Synopsis

Presents strategies to designing platform agnostic mobile apps connected to cloud based services that can handle heavy loads of modern computing * Provides development patterns for platform agnostic app development and technologies * Includes recommended standards and structures for easy adoption * Covers portable and modular back-end architectures to support service agility and rapid development

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From the Back Cover:

Presents strategies for designing platform agnostic mobile apps connected to cloud-based services able to handle the heavy loads of modern computing

This book explains how to create an innovative and future proof architecture for mobile apps by introducing practical approaches to increase the value and flexibility of their service layers and reduce their delivery time. Designing Platform Independent Mobile Apps and Services begins by describing the mobile computing landscape and previous attempts at cross-platform development. Platform independent mobile technologies and development strategies are described in chapters two and three. Communication protocols, details of a recommended five-layer architecture, service layers, and the data abstraction layer are also introduced in these chapters. Cross-platform languages and multi-client development tools for the User Interface (UI) layer, as well as message processing patterns and message routing of the Service Interface (SI) layer are explained in chapters four and five. Ways to design the service layer for mobile computing, using Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS), and the Data Abstraction Layer with external services, as well as strategies to deploy and host portable and modular service architectures are included in chapters six and seven. The last chapters cover the foundation of the data layer and polyglot data layer, as well as strategies for ongoing improvements for apps and services.

• Provides development patterns for platform agnostic app development and technologies
• Includes recommended standards and structures for easy adoption and extensibility
• Covers portable and modular back-end architectures to support service agility, rapid development, and future proof service designs

Designing Platform Independent Mobile Apps and Services is geared towards mobile consumer and commercial app developers. It is also useful for students interested in learning about modern application development.

About the Author:

Rocky Heckman works as a Technical Evangelist for the Microsoft Corporation, Australia. He acts as an architectural advisor and technical consultant to Microsoft's ISV partners on the topics of Windows Azure, Windows 8 and Windows Phone Apps and SQL server. He received his bachelor's degree in software engineering at the University of Canberra, Australia, and certification in C++ programming, object-oriented programming, and project management at the Colorado Technical University, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1119060141
• ISBN 13: 9781119060147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256