Pro Smartphone Cross-Platform Development: iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Android Development and Distribution

Mobile platform development is a dominating force, and a huge number of developers are focusing more of their time on creating applications for each of the major platforms - iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Android. With cross platform development architecture and tools, these applications can be built in such a way that a single code base can run on all platforms. The book covers architecture, development, and distribution of native and cross platform applications, and is one of the first resources available for developers interested in extending their applications across platforms.

Sarah Allen is a serial innovator with a history of developing leading-edge products, such as After Effects, Shockwave, Flash video, OpenLaszlo and Laszlo Webtop. She has a habit of recognizing great and timely ideas, finding herself amidst a talented team, and creating compelling software. She is now an independent consultant developing mobile and web applications.

Sarah has been developing commercial software since 1990. She began focusing on Internet software as an engineer on Macromedia’s Shockwave team in 1995. She led the development of the Shockwave Multiuser Server, and later the Flash Media Server, introducing streaming video and multi-party communication in Flash Player 6. She has also developed software tools for multimedia, digital video, and graphic arts at Adobe, Aldus, and The Company of Science and Art (After Effects). She was named one of the top 25 women of the web by SF Wow (San Francisco Women of the Web) in 1998.

Vidal Graupera has been developing award winning mobile applications since 1993 starting as far back as the Apple Newton. He founded and ran a successful software company that developed more than a dozen consumer applications on a variety of mobile platforms over a period of 10 years. Vidal holds engineering degrees from Carnegie Melon University and the University of Southern CA, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Vidal currently consults with clients on developing mobile applications. He is one of the leaders in applying the new rhodes mobile application framework. More information about Vidal and his current projects can be found at http://www.vidalgraupera.com.

Lee Lundrigan is a Software Engineer from Syracuse NY. He is currently pursing a bachelorâ??s degree in Software Engineering. Starting at a very young age Mr. Lundrigan had a passion for computers and emerging technologies. These passions lead him to the heart of the fast paced mobile computing world in San Francisco, California. He flourished in this environment, currently working as an independent consultant, specializing in web and mobile development.