Beginning Mobile Application Development in the Cloud -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Introducing Cloud-Based Mobile Apps -- How to Build Mobile Apps in the Cloud -- Using Your Existing Skill Set -- Determining What Tools You Need -- The Skills You'll Learn -- Two Big Ideas About the App Industry -- Web Apps and the Future -- The Cloud as the Future -- Getting Started -- Using JavaScript Functions -- The WebKit Browser Engine -- A Colorful Little App -- Introducing the nginx Web Server -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Mobilizing Your App -- Building a Touch-Sensitive Drawing App -- How to Draw on the Screen -- Drawing in Response to Touch Events -- Applying the DRY Principle to Your Code -- Using the Amazon Cloud -- How Geography Affects Amazon AWS -- Using the Elastic Compute Cloud -- Deploying Your Mobile Web App -- Deploying Your Mobile App to the Instance -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Building Mobile Web Apps -- What You Can Do with Mobile Web Apps -- Locating Your User -- Responding to Device Orientation -- More Features for Later -- Installing Mobile Web Apps on iPhone Devices -- Installing Mobile Web Apps on Android Devices -- Introducing jQuery and jQuery Mobile -- The jQuery Library -- The jQuery Mobile Library -- Building a To-Do List App -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Enhancing Your App -- Using App Caching -- Handling Touch Events -- Touch Events -- Gesture Events -- Embedding an Interactive Map -- The Google Maps API -- Providing an Application Icon and a Startup Screen -- Summary -- Chapter 5 : Building Apps in the Cloud -- Server-Side JavaScript -- Introducing Node -- Installing Node -- Using the Node Package Manager -- Introducing the MongoDB Database -- Cloud Analytics for Your To-Do List App -- Doing the Math -- Organizing Your System -- Collecting the Usage Data -- Submitting the Usage Data -- Charting the Usage Data -- Summary.

Chapter 6: Use the Cloud! -- The Classic Cloud Architecture -- The REST Approach -- Cloud Databases -- Introducing Amazon SimpleDB -- The SimpleDB Approach to Cloud Storage -- The SimpleDB API -- Putting the To-Do List App in the Cloud -- Introducing the simpledb Library -- Building a Command-Line Client -- Working on Cloud Time -- Running a Cloud Server -- Synchronizing with the Cloud -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Enhancing the User Experience -- Creating a Classic Tab Bar Interface -- Implementing the jQuery Mobile Solution -- Using the iScroll Solution -- Enabling Mobile Audio and Video -- Playing Audio in Your App -- Playing Video in Your App -- Launching Apps from Your App -- Launching a Web Browser from Your App -- Launching a Phone from Your App -- Launching SMS from Your App -- Launching Mail from Your App -- Launching Maps from Your App -- Launching YouTube from Your App -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Working with the Cloud -- Storing Content in Amazon S3 -- The Architecture of Amazon S3 -- Using Amazon S3 -- Signing In with the Cloud -- Building Large-Scale Apps -- Getting the Big Picture Right -- Using the Cache! -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Creating Hybrid Apps that Run Natively -- Introducing Hybrid Apps -- The PhoneGap Project -- Building Hybrid Apps -- Building an iPhone App -- Understanding Code-Signing -- Building an Android App -- Using Device Features -- Lifestream, a Photo-Blogging App -- Uploading Pictures -- Storing Pictures on Amazon S3 -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Building a Photo-Blogging App -- The Architecture of Lifestream -- Building the Server -- Laying the Foundation -- Enabling User Following -- Uploading and Posting Pictures -- Completing the Lifestream App -- Supporting User Accounts -- Integrating Social Network Identity -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Working with Cloud Development Services.

Getting to Know the Mobile App Development Platforms -- Using the FeedHenry Platform -- FeedHenry Technology -- The FeedHenry Development Environment -- Deciding to Use FeedHenry -- Using the Appcelerator Platform -- Appcelerator Technology -- The Appcelerator Development Environment -- Deciding to Use Appcelerator -- Using the appMobi Platform -- appMobi Technology -- The appMobi Development Environment -- Deciding to Use appMobi -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Going Social! -- Using the Twitter API -- Working with the Twitter API Usage Limits -- Using the Entities that the Twitter API Exposes -- The Parts You Need -- An App for Direct Messages -- The Design Process -- Getting the Hygiene Factors Right -- The Code Structure -- OAuth Without a Server -- Calling the Twitter API -- Event Consumers and Producers -- Summary -- Chapter 13: App Stores -- What You Need to Publish Your App -- Icons -- Splash Screen -- Screenshots and Orientations -- App Metadata -- Working with the App Stores -- Building Your App for Release -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Selling Your App -- Determining a Marketing Strategy -- Building Apps for Others -- Using Apps to Promote Your Business -- Selling Your Own Apps -- Choosing Tactics for Promoting Your App -- Standard Tactics -- Expensive Tactics -- Guerrilla Tactics -- Summary -- Appendix: Exercise Solutions -- Index -- Advertisements.