Training: Exploring Mobile Development

Although each of the major mobile platforms (The Apple iOS, Microsoft Windows Phone 7, and the Google Android) has its own native development language and platform, developing for all three would require mastering a different language and set of tools for each. You can take advantage of a language you already know (C#) and even share code between your development projects on the three platforms with careful planning. Taking advantage of MonoTouch (for iOS) and Mono Android (for Android), you can create applications for all three platforms using C#. In this course, you will get started developing a common, simple mobile application for each of the three platforms-you will learn to interact with the Yahoo Flickr web service, retrieving lists of photo sets, then selecting and displaying a single photo. Along the way, you will learn what you need to install to build applications for each platform. You will learn about calling REST services and how to work with the service asynchronously on each platform. You will learn to create simple applications that allow users to navigate from one view to another, and you will learn enough about coding for each platform to get started.