Mobile Design and Development: Practical Concepts and Techniques for Creating Mobile Sites and Web Apps (Animal Guide),   ISBN:9780596155445

Customer Rating: 

If you want a book that gets you started on all the foundation concepts of mobile and further inspires you to create mobile web apps and how to do it, this book is for you.

If you are currently writing iPhone apps, are just interested in developing or designing for the mobile space or simply want an overview of 'Mobile 2.0', this will get you up to speed very quickly.

Highly recommended.

Customer Rating: 

In this book, Brian Fling has truly focused on mobile web, only veering off into other mobile topics to understand the full ecosystem. This is not a generic mobile design book, but a mobile web design & implementation book. You'll gain an understanding of the mobile industry and how the different players affect what you can and can not do. You'll get a better idea of how mobile browsers work. And you'll get lots of detail on what typically works and what doesn't. Brian has spent a lot of time actually making designs work, and you benefit.

I do disagree with him on a small number of topics, but you can go to either of our companies' sites and deduce what they are. These disagreements, such as whether to rely solely on progressive enhancement, will not interfere with your learning from this book.