Building Mobile Apps at Scale

Building Mobile Apps at Scale
Author: Gergely Orosz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781638778868

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?

Mobile Apps Engineering

Mobile Apps Engineering
Author: Ghita K. Mostefaoui
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2018-12-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1351681435

The objective of this edited book is to gather best practices in the development and management of mobile apps projects. Mobile Apps Engineering aims to provide software engineering lecturers, students and researchers of mobile computing a starting point for developing successful mobile apps. To achieve these objectives, the book’s contributors emphasize the essential concepts of the field, such as apps design, testing and security, with the intention of offering a compact, self-contained book which shall stimulate further research interest in the topic. The editors hope and believe that their efforts in bringing this book together can make mobile apps engineering an independent discipline inspired by traditional software engineering, but taking into account the new challenges posed by mobile computing.

Writing Mobile Code

Writing Mobile Code
Author: Ivo Salmre
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Total Pages: 814
Release: 2005
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

A truly essential guide for the many programmers writing - or thinking of writing - applications for the new generation of mobile devices.

Handbook of Research on Mobile Software Engineering

Handbook of Research on Mobile Software Engineering
Author: Paulo Alencar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Application software
ISBN: 9781615206551

The development, design, and implementation of mobile communications technologies significantly impacts innovative networked applications and information services. The Handbook of Research on Mobile Software Engineering: Design Implementation and Emergent Applications offers a compendium of state-of-the-art research on the key issues surrounding current and future challenges for the software engineering of mobile systems and related emergent applications. This reference addresses gaps in the literature within the disciplines of software engineering and mobile computing.

Engineering Web Applications

Engineering Web Applications
Author: Sven Casteleyn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2009-07-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540922016

Nowadays, Web applications are almost omnipresent. The Web has become a platform not only for information delivery, but also for eCommerce systems, social networks, mobile services, and distributed learning environments. Engineering Web applications involves many intrinsic challenges due to their distributed nature, content orientation, and the requirement to make them available to a wide spectrum of users who are unknown in advance. The authors discuss these challenges in the context of well-established engineering processes, covering the whole product lifecycle from requirements engineering through design and implementation to deployment and maintenance. They stress the importance of models in Web application development, and they compare well-known Web-specific development processes like WebML, WSDM and OOHDM to traditional software development approaches like the waterfall model and the spiral model. .

Modern Software Engineering Methodologies for Mobile and Cloud Environments

Modern Software Engineering Methodologies for Mobile and Cloud Environments
Author: Rosado da Cruz, António Miguel
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2016-01-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1466699175

As technology continues to evolve, the popularity of mobile computing has become inherent within today’s society. With the majority of the population using some form of mobile device, it has become increasingly important to develop more efficient cloud platforms. Modern Software Engineering Methodologies for Mobile and Cloud Environments investigates emergent trends and research on innovative software platforms in mobile and cloud computing. Featuring state-of-the-art software engineering methods, as well as new techniques being utilized in the field, this book is a pivotal reference source for professionals, researchers, practitioners, and students interested in mobile and cloud environments.

Mobile Apps Engineering

Mobile Apps Engineering
Author: Ghita K. Mostefaoui
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2018-12-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1351681443

The objective of this edited book is to gather best practices in the development and management of mobile apps projects. Mobile Apps Engineering aims to provide software engineering lecturers, students and researchers of mobile computing a starting point for developing successful mobile apps. To achieve these objectives, the book’s contributors emphasize the essential concepts of the field, such as apps design, testing and security, with the intention of offering a compact, self-contained book which shall stimulate further research interest in the topic. The editors hope and believe that their efforts in bringing this book together can make mobile apps engineering an independent discipline inspired by traditional software engineering, but taking into account the new challenges posed by mobile computing.

Mobile Communications Engineering: Theory and Applications

Mobile Communications Engineering: Theory and Applications
Author: William C. Y. Lee
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 715
Release: 1997-10-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 007150012X

From one of the field’s foremost educators, here is the classic guide to mobile communication—fully revised for the 1990s and beyond. It is unique because it shows readers how to understand the differences in applying technologies between wireline communications and wireless communications. The new second edition extensively updates the basics. It also coves traffic and capacity analysis on mobile communications networks and addresses rapidly expanding new technologies, such as digital cellular, PCS, and multiple access techniques not only including FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, and SDMA, but also applying the techniques on the virtual channels.

Mobile Design and Development

Mobile Design and Development
Author: Brian Fling
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2009-08-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1449379249

Mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one worldwide, yet little information is available for designing and developing mobile applications. Mobile Design and Development fills that void with practical guidelines, standards, techniques, and best practices for building mobile products from start to finish. With this book, you'll learn basic design and development principles for all mobile devices and platforms. You'll also explore the more advanced capabilities of the mobile web, including markup, advanced styling techniques, and mobile Ajax. If you're a web designer, web developer, information architect, product manager, usability professional, content publisher, or an entrepreneur new to the mobile web, Mobile Design and Development provides you with the knowledge you need to work with this rapidly developing technology. Mobile Design and Development will help you: Understand how the mobile ecosystem works, how it differs from other mediums, and how to design products for the mobile context Learn the pros and cons of building native applications sold through operators or app stores versus mobile websites or web apps Work with flows, prototypes, usability practices, and screen-size-independent visual designs Use and test cross-platform mobile web standards for older devices, as well as devices that may be available in the future Learn how to justify a mobile product by building it on a budget

Android App Development For Dummies

Android App Development For Dummies
Author: Michael Burton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2015-03-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1119017920

The updated edition of the bestselling guide to Android app development If you have ambitions to build an Android app, this hands-on guide gives you everything you need to dig into the development process and turn your great idea into a reality! In this new edition of Android App Development For Dummies, you'll find easy-to-follow access to the latest programming techniques that take advantage of the new features of the Android operating system. Plus, two programs are provided: a simple program to get you started and an intermediate program that uses more advanced aspects of the Android platform. Android mobile devices currently account for nearly 80% of mobile phone market share worldwide, making it the best platform to reach the widest possible audience. With the help of this friendly guide, developers of all stripes will quickly find out how to install the tools they need, design a good user interface, grasp the design differences between phone and tablet applications, handle user input, avoid common pitfalls, and turn a "meh" app into one that garners applause. Create seriously cool apps for the latest Android smartphones and tablets Adapt your existing apps for use on an Android device Start working with programs and tools to create Android apps Publish your apps to the Google Play Store Whether you're a new or veteran programmer, Android App Development For Dummies will have you up and running with the ins and outs of the Android platform in no time.