Mobile Developer´s Guide To The Galaxy

It turns out the trudge through 4" of snow to todays Apps World today was worth it. Not least for picking up a copy of the Mobile Developer´s Guide To The Galaxy (6^th edition) - and thats not just Samsung Galaxy s!

Thanks to Enough Software it turns out any other potential mobile developers can avoid the snow and download a PDF version directly !

The Creative Commons Some Rights Reserved licenced MDG2TG is a great intro to mobdev on any platform and includes links to such gems as

• .mobi test tool

making you mob/web app geo location aware using

• location-location-location
• W3C Geo Location spec
• geo-location-javascript

test your mob/web pages

• by customising your firefox user agent

and finally plenty of diagrams and tables such as

• a table of mobiles & their supported audio video standards
• a table of mobile platforms & their strengths and weaknesses