phone for me, tablet for we: building a multi screen app in one hour
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Presented By Abhay Aggarwal at the 2nd IndicThreads.com Conference On Mobile Application Development, August 2011 http://Mobile.IndicThreads.comTRANSCRIPT
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Phone for Me, Tablet for We: Building a multi screen app in One Hour
Abhay AggarwalXebia India
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Phones & Tablets – Are they different?
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Something happened…
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It’s all in the design
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One design, Multiple Personalities
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The Apple Bandwagon
960 x 640 screen rez 1024 x 768 screen rez
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The Android Carnival
240x320
240x400
320x480
360x640
480x800
540x960
1280x800
800x480
1024x600
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Become a Native App Developer…
• Highly fragmented mobile technology landscape
• Need specialized resources or learn each technology
• Production and maintenance costs overshoots the budget
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…Or, you can code smart
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Let’s build an app...
...or not!
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The Key to Nirvana
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#1IDENTIFY YOUR USER
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#2Sketch basic layouts for different sizes
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#3 CONSTANT = CONSISTENT
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#4Modularize your code
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#5Separate the business logic from user
interface
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#6Plan for data storage
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#7 Use CSS & resource bundles extensively
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Your thoughts?