<span class="chapter-titlelabel">Chapter 8: </span>Smart Client Development - Networks in the Knowledge Economy [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Chapter 8: Smart Client Development

Overview

Launching a mobile development project can be a challenging task. In addition to the user interface concerns that are always present on mobile devices, you have to worry about enterprise integration, connectivity issues, device constraints, and application deployment and management issues. All of these challenges have to be met using technology that is still in its infancy. It seems like a daunting task, but with proper research and project management these challenges can be overcome, resulting in a very rewarding solution.

The goal of this chapter is to prepare you for some of the technical challenges you will encounter while developing mobile applications, as well as to give you some pointers on how to get started. In this chapter, we will step through each part of the development process, investigating the technology that is available to help you build your mobile solutions. Then we will discuss the pros and cons of developing native versus Java applications.