Designing Platform Independent Mobile Apps and Services

LIST OF FIGURES xi

LIST OF TABLES xiii

PREFACE xv

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii

CHAPTER 1 THE MOBILE LANDSCAPE 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Previous Attempts at Cross-Platform 2

1.2.1 Java 2

1.2.2 Early Web Apps 5

1.2.3 Multiple Codebases 7

1.3 Breadth Versus Depth 9

1.4 The Multi-Platform Targets 10

1.4.1 Traditional...