Designing Platform Independent Mobile Apps And Services

In the mobile age, any time is written to be delivered to a device such as an Android, iPhone or Windows device, three completely separate code bases have had to be written. There are tools and techniques available now that assist with cross platform development to help solve this problem. This book presents a strategy that makes this redevelopment effort minimal, while reaching the entire mobile, wearable, embedded and traditional device market. The book's emphasis is on internet accessible services, and creating value at the service layer, which makes the device specific code very minimal and easy to maintain going forward. This strategy of Device Independent Delivery of Cloud Services will show readers how to create value in their services, and be able to improve and deliver them to any device anywhere, now or in the future with minimal effort.

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.