Introduction

Developing mobile applications can be tricky business. Mobile developers need to use platform-specific tools and APIs and write code in different languages on different platforms. It is often hard to understand what it takes to develop and distribute an application for a specific device without actually building one. Each platform has different processes and requirements for membership in developer programs and documentation for different parts of the development process are often scattered and hard to piece together. Therefore, we have divided the book into three main topics: Platform Development and Distribution, Cross-Platform Native Frameworks, and HTML Interfaces.

Part 1: Platform Development and Distribution

In Chapters 15, we ...

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