Review: Beginning Building Mobile Application Development in the Cloud

Level: Intermediate to Advance

This book is only one that I see in the market, which explains in deep of Amazon Web Services in the Cloud and Mobile Application. This book is for web developer and you may require acknowledge or skill of create Mobile App in any OS before reading this book, including the HTML5 & JavaScript.

Here are the basic of Amazon EC2:

Getting Started with Amazon EC2 - Install, Configure, Connect

Amazon SimpleDB Intro

Chapter 1 - Introducing Cloud-Based Mobile Apps

The author introduced and attempted to improve your skill to build mobile web in HTML & CSS, JavaScript, HTML5 and a web server. These skills will cover the entire mobile app technology stack, from the device, to the server and the database.

Chapter2 - Mobilizing Your App

The author demonstrated the basic of creating mobile app and introduced the Amazon cloud service – EC2, then how to configure with the cloud server

Chapter3 - Building Mobile Web Apps and Chapter 4 - Enhancing Your App

More design of mobile web app, for example; using device geolocation to find a user’s location, detecting the orientation of the mobile device screen, and using the jQuery Mobile JavaScript library etc.

Making your mobile app work when the device is offline, handling multitouch events with more than one finger, and providing a home screen icon for your app, etc

Chapter5 - Building Apps in the Cloud

The author demonstrated how to develop cloud base application using JavaScript and JSON data format and how to use the MongoDB database.

Chapter 6 - Use the Cloud!

More details in cloud services - understanding cloud databases, developing a web service interface for SimpleDB and synchronizing local data with remote data etc

Chapter 7 - Enhancing the User Experience

Demonstrated in multimedia using HTML5 within mobile web – enable audio and video files in your app etc

Chapter 8 - Working with the Cloud

Demonstrated working of the Amazon S3 service, streaming data which efficiently and signing in to your app with Twitter & Facebook etc.

Chapter 9 - Creating Hybrid Apps that Run Natively

Introducing Hybrid Phone App and working with PhoneGap project

Chapter 10 - Building a Photo-Blogging App

Introducing & demonstrate Lifestream app, which is a photo-sharing mobile app that works like Twitter, instead of sharing short messages with the followers.

And much more…