Mobile for Non-technical Managers Training

Chapter 1. Mobile Application Development Strategies

• Mobile Applications
• Devices Types
• Smartphones
• Tablets
• Device Convergence
• Platforms
• Platform Comparison
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
• The Reality
• Types of Mobile Applications
• Native Mobile Applications
• Mobile Web Applications
• Responsive Web Design
• Building
• Responsive Web Applications
• Hybrid Mobile Applications
• The Future?
• HTML5 — 9 New Features
• Cascading Style Sheets — CSS
• JavaScript
• Libraries
• Common Features
• Mobile Web Development
• Apache Cordova (PhoneGap)
• Building with Cordova
• 10 Questions
• Summary

Chapter 2. Risks and Challenges

• Introduction
• Security is Security
• Five Aspects of Security
• It's all about the Data
• Physical Device Security
• User Accounts
• Data Entry Challenges
• Radios
• Emerging Mobile Security Solutions
• User Friendliness Problems
• Understand How Users Interact With the Application
• Consider Real User Needs
• Consider the Environment
• Internationalization (i13n)
• Consider the Battery
• Consider the Connection
• Not Meeting User Expectations
• Choices
• Change at the Speed of the Internet
• Review Sites
• Too Late to go to Market
• Quick Response
• Mobile Adoption Path
• Modern Development Methodologies
• Summary

Chapter 3. Introduction to Android

• What is Android?
• A Short History
• Advantages of Android
• Disadvantages of Android
• Android Version Distribution
• Android Market Share
• References
• Summary

Chapter 4. Accessing Enterprise Data and Services

• Mobile Device Connectivity
• Types of Connections
• Reversing a Trend
• Cellular
• Wifi
• Bluetooth
• Near Field Communications (NFC)
• NFC Tags
• Varying Connection Quality
• Connection Costs
• Data Transfer
• SOAP Web Services
• RESTful Web Services
• Websockets
• Offline Strategies
• No Offline Operations
• Limited Offline Operations
• Full Capability Offline
• 10 Questions
• Summary

Chapter 5. Introduction to Responsive Web Design

• What is Responsive Web Design?
• Mobile Browsers Quirks
• Other Mobile Web Considerations
• Primary Responsive Design Techniques
• Elements of Responsive Design
• Example of Responsive Design
• Responsive Page Design Schematic
• Alternatives to Responsive Design
• Summary

Chapter 6. Mobile Usability Patterns

• Introduction
• Usage Pattern Based UI Design
• Tabbed Interface Pattern
• Tabbed Interface in Android
• Vertically Scrollable List Pattern
• Master Detail Navigation Pattern
• Example Navigation
• Split View Pattern
• Device Dimension Specific UI Pattern
• Handling Orientation Change
• Toolbar Pattern
• Search Interface Pattern
• Pagination Pattern
• Detail Iteration Pattern
• Loading Images from the Internet
• 10 Questions
• Summary

Chapter 7. Mobile Testing Overview

• Native Architecture
• Mobile Web Site Architecture
• Hybrid Apps
• Unit Testing
• The Architecture
• Function Testing Applications
• Testing Disk Storage
• Testing Network Access
• Testing Location Based Services
• Testing Telephony Services
• Summary