Native Mobile Development: A Cross-Reference for iOS and Android

by Shaun Lewis, Mike Dunn

Get professionally developed and curated recipes for 20 of the most common tasks for functionality in modern native iOS and Android applications. With this practical book, developers can use an easily translatable set of instructions for completing routine functionality in both platforms in a way that follows best practices.

Authors Shaun Lewis and Mike Dunn provide step-by-step direction to help you create a fully-functional application using modern practices and designs that will utilize those tasks. The development of the apps will be laid out side-by-side, so that the friction usually involved in switching between platforms while developing is greatly reduced. By the end of this book, you'll have developed apps for both iOS and Android with exactly the same core features, as well as some additional features that are relevant and unique to each app's operating system.

394 pages, Paperback

Published December 17, 2019

Reviews

[Harald Felgner · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book would benefit from some conceptual diagrams and screens of UI elements. I see the point that actual screenshots let a programming book age faster, but…

…an update to current UI guidelines and frameworks would be necessary anyhow 😉

Nevertheless an excellent comparison Android vs iOS side by side!

[Vladimir Vlasov · Rating 3 out of 5]

A great book for beginners who want to write code for both platforms. As an iOS developer who has already written cross-platform code and bridges, I didn’t find a lot of new material. The book covers UI implementation and some basic topics, but I was personally more interested in specific aspects like push notification setup, deep links, and process inter-operation.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​