mobile app books
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- Moo
Hi Guys,
I'm trying to find a good book to start me on the road to mobile app design/development. Does anyone have any good suggestions
Thanks
Moo
- monolith0
What do you want to develop for? Do you want to learn native way (the proper way) or you want to learn to develop apps with HTML5 or AIR or Mono Touch or Titanium Appcelerator and other stuff that's out there?
If you want to go native route (which I would recommend), check out 2 very nice lectures on Lynda.com
One is Objective-C Essential Training and other one is Java Essential Training
If you have no programming experience at all but have dabbled with Javascript I would recommend you first watch
Foundations of Programming: Fundamentals by Simon Allardice (he is a great teacher and his course is the other one in Obj-C too)
Once you are done with Foundations, you can watch the first 2 I recommended to get a hang of Java and Obj-C (I recommend you do Java first because it will be much more similar to Javascript) and then dive into Obj-C.
Once you are done with those courses, they are basic courses for you to understand the OOP principles and some other stuff you are ready to dive into iOS and Android dev which explores their respective SDKs and APIs (such as Cocoa and Android APIs). There are good lectures but none of them will make you fully understand what's going on until you actually start building examples yourself.
So when you are done with basics of languages and foundations of OOP you should imagine a small app you want to build and do it. Read and search for examples of API usage and how other people solved it and you will slowly but surely fully understand how these APIs work, how to make things for mobile and so on.
Good luck. It's a blast btw.