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Utilizing practical examples, the book shows how to build a wide range of solutions--from a basic XHTML/CSS client to an advanced Ajax-enabled database application. As it does so, it helps readers design a user interface that is optimized for the iPhone touch-screen display. Additionally, the book helps readers integrate their applications with iPhone services, including phone dialog, its motion sensor, and Google Maps.

With this book, readers will discover how to:

• Build an XHTML and CSS UI framework from the ground up
• Emulate the look and feel of built-in applications
• Integrate public Web 2.0 APIs into applications
• Capture finger touch interactions
• Use Ajax to load external pages
• Create mashups for the iPhone
• Store local and remote data
• Optimize applications for the EDGE network
• Test, debug, and deploy iPhone applications
• And more.

Average Customer Rating:

iPhone Development	Customer Rating:
This book was a great start for something I am hoping to do on a regular basis, iPhone development.

Good Coverage of Web-Based iPhone Dev

Customer Rating:

I've never owned a Mac (until now) and never done any development for that platform. While this book doesn't intend to cover the recently released iPhone SDK (it was published before the SDK's release), it does provide excellent coverage of web-based development for the iPhone (and iPod Touch). It leverages a free, open-source library to take much of the grunt work out of it, but also provides detailed code samples and examples and enough information so you could probably do it without the library should you desire. If you're interested in making your site look and feel like an iPhone app, this book will get you there. You should understand HTML, CSS and, preferably, a modicum of Javascript to get the most out of the book.

basic web app	Customer Rating:
It's just a basic web app which are a combile of AJAX and CSS. Not much new.

ok but not great

Customer Rating:

This book contains quite some materials from the book you can also find them in Apple's documentations. It also has quite some details on Joe Hewitt's iUI framework. But generally speaking, it lacks more detailed explanation (on CSS, AJAX, JavaScript). Here's the dilema: if you are an experienced CSS and JavaScript developer, you will find it lacking the depth. It barely scratches the surface of what real AJAX-powered iPhone applications can do. If you are somewhat a newbie developer, you will need more explanation on the subject. Unfortunately, this book falls in-between the above 2 scenarios. After all, this is the first and only book on iPhone programming, it's a nice start for anyone that's interested.