Reviews for Getting Started with IPhone SDK, Android and Others: Mobile Application Development - Create Your Mobile Applications Best Practices Guide

1. Don't buy this

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, May 12th, 2009

   This isn't even a book. It's a collection of thoughts written down randomly. It reads like a set of short (page to page and a half) pieces written for an amateur blog, each one masquerading as a chapter. Throughout the book the same inane platitudes are repeated over and over at random intervals (eg p65 'One of the inventions that made communication a lot easier is the telephone'). 'Chapters' on the same subject are not grouped together, and again simply repeat the same simple information. One 'chapter' ('Ways on How to Select a Mobile Platform' - sic) is repeated in full no less than 3 times. In addition, the guy's first language is clearly not English (at least I hope for his sake it's not) which makes for difficult reading at times, and for complete nonsense at others (eg 'Therefore, mobile developers are turned into mobile content developers to settle the core issue which is: to develop a certain application that will be valuable to consumers with special consideration with quality content they will designed and developed'). And the 'chapter' entitled 'The Stages in a Mobile Application Development' lists the core processes in mobile application development as (a) Determine the application that will be developed (b) Choose excellently your mobile application development tools (c) Test your application for a specific period of time - that's it! Not even a build phase! It's as though someone's taken some other publication and slapped a cover on it that will attract buyers. The cover says 'Getting Started with iPhone SDK, Android and others: Mobile Application Development - Create your Mobile Applications Best Practices Guide'. Yet open the cover and the first page has the title 'Mobile Application Development 100 Success Secrets' - a more accurate title given the format, but still not relevant to the content (I don't think the invention of the telephone is a secret). And the killer? On that same page it states 'This book is also NOT about Mobile Application Development best practice...'