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

by Shaun Lewis, Mike Dunn

Learn how to make mobile native app development easier. If your team frequently works with both iOS and Android--or plans to transition from one to the other--this hands-on guide shows you how to perform the most common development tasks in each platform. Want to learn how to make network connections in iOS? Or how to work with a database in Android? This book has you covered.

In the book's first part, authors Shaun Lewis and Mike Dunn from O'Reilly's mobile engineering group provide a list of common, platform-agnostic tasks. The second part helps you create a bare-bones app in each platform, using the techniques from part one.


Common file and database operations
Network communication with remote APIs
Application lifecycle
Custom views and components
Threading and asynchronous work
Unit and integration tests
Configuring, building, and running an app on a device

394 pages, ebook

Published November 12, 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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​