Mobile Web Development
Preface
As
more users access the Web from their phones and other handhelds, web
developers need to learn techniques for targeting these new devices.
Sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google target mobiles with their
services and products. Companies use mobile services to provide staff
access to their applications while away from a computer.
This
book is a complete, practical guide to writing mobile websites and
applications. You will learn how to create mobile-friendly websites,
adapt your content to the capabilities of different devices, save
bandwidth with compression, and create server-side logic that
integrates with a mobile front end. You will also see other methods
for integrating your web application with mobile technology: sending
and receiving MMS and SMS messages, accepting mobile payments, and
working with voice calls to provide spoken interaction.
The
book illustrates every technique with practical examples, showing how
to use these development methods in the real world. Along the way we
show how an example pizza delivery business can use these methods to
open up to the mobile web.
Whether
you want to provide customers and users of your public website with
new ways to access your services, or build applications so that staff
can stay up to date while on the road, this book will show you all
you need to build a powerful mobile presence.
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