Mobile Web Development Table Of Contents

Mobile Web Development

Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Mobile
Chapter 2: Starting Your Mobile Site
Chapter 3: Building Pizza On The Run
Chapter 4: Adapting to User Devices
Chapter 5: Developing Standards- Compliant Sites
Chapter 6: Sending Text Messages
Chapter 7: Adding Spice to Messages: MMS
Chapter 8: Making Money via Mobile Devices
Chapter 9: Interactive Voice
Chapter 10: Mobile AJAX
Chapter 11: Mobile Web 3.0?
Index

Preface

Chapter 1: Getting Mobile
- What is Mobile Web?
  - Mobile Web Integration is Connecting the Two!
- The First Step—Understanding Mobile Devices
  - Mobile Phones
  - PDAs
  - Other Devices
- Mobile Data Usage is Exploding
  - Mobile Usage Around the World is Not the Same
- Mobiles and Desktops
  - People Use Their Mobiles Differently Than Their Desktops
    - How Would You Do This Using Your Mobile?
- It's Not All Rosy—Mobile Devices have Limitations
  - Advantages of Mobile Web
- But There are Many Ways to Do Mobile Web Development!
  - What About WAP?
- Bringing Order with Standards and Guidelines
  - Adaptation is Better, but LCD is Easier
- Summary

Chapter 2: Starting Your Mobile Site
- Pizza On The Run and the Mobile Web
- Different Options for Going Mobile
  - Do Nothing
    - When to Use This Approach
    - When to Avoid This Approach
  - Remove Formatting
    - When to Use This Approach
    - When to Avoid This Approach
  - CSS-Based Design
    - When to Use This Approach
    - When to Avoid This Approach
  - Mobile Site
    - When to Use This Approach
    - When to Avoid This Approach
- Mobile Navigation and Information Architecture
  - Step-By-Step: Planning the Structure of Your Mobile Site
  - Handy Tips in Structuring Your Mobile Site
- Setting Up the Development Environment
  - Hosting Your Mobile Site is Trivial
- POTR Mobile Homepage
- Making a Call is as Simple as Email
- Understanding the Homepage
  - Document Structure
- Fundamentals of XHTML MP
  - Before Writing Further Code, Let's Learn Some Grammar
  - Most Common HTML Elements are Supported
  - XHTML MP Does Not Support Many WML Features
- Summary

Chapter 3: Building Pizza On The Run
- Luigi's Pizza On The Run
- Designing Layouts for the Mobile Web
  - Mobile Screen Sizes
  - Colors, Images, Page Sizes, and More
  - To Mobile or Not to Mobile?
  - Web Layouts Don't Work on Mobile Devices
- Using Wireless CSS as the Silver Bullet, Almost!
- Creating the Database and Code Architecture for POTR
  - Classes for POTR
  - Database Schema
  - Coding Framework
- Redoing the POTR Homepage
- Form Elements Don't Look the Same Across Browsers
- Form Processing Does not Change!
  - Handling Sessions and User Login
- Taking Orders
- Constraining User Input with WCSS
- Single-Step Registration and Order Placement on POTR
- Special Effects with CSS
- Luigi's Pizza On The Run is Live!
- Summary

Chapter 4: Adapting to User Devices
- What is Adaptation?
  - Do I Need Adaptation?
  - Can't I just Use Common Capabilities and Ignore the Rest?
  - How to Determine the LCD?
  - OK, So How do I Adapt?
- Fancy Pizza Selection
  - What are Those <wall:*> Tags?
  - Let's Make Sense of This Code!
    - Can I Use All XHTML Tags?
    - Will This Work Well for WML?
- Device Detection and Capabilities
  - XML Processing can Bog Down My Server, is There Something Easier?
  - What About W3C's DIAL?

Other Useful Tools for Adaptation
- Dynamically Resizing Images
- Quick and Easy Way to Make Your Blog Mobile
- MyMobileWeb: Going the Semantic Way
- HAWHAW: As Simple as a Laugh?

Summary

Chapter 5: Developing Standards- Compliant Sites
- Running the ready.mobi Test
  - Time for Action: Test Your Site's Mobile Readiness with the ready.mobi Test

Creating the Structure, Design, Markup, and Navigation for Best User Experience
- Mobile Web Development Checklists
  - Strategy
  - Testing Setup
  - Structure and Page Information
  - Design and CSS
  - Images
  - Navigation and Links
  - Content
  - Markup
  - User Input
  - Objects, Security, Caching, Etc.
- Best Practices should be Upgraded!
- Most Good Styles of Design and Software will Work on the Mobile Web Too

Collecting User Behavior Data
- Time for Action: Implementing User Tracking

How is All the Data Tracked?
Covering Problem Areas
Tapping into the Device Data
Making it Easier to Ask for Help

Summary

Chapter 6: Sending Text Messages
- Updating Order Status
  - Time for Action: Updating Order Status

Sending SMS Notifications
- Getting Started with a Gateway
  - Time for Action: Registering on Clickatell
- Integrating with Clickatell
  - Time for Action: Integrating with Clickatell to Send SMS Notifications
  - What Just Happened?

So What Happens at the Gateway?
Finding Message Delivery Status
- Time for Action: Tracking Queued Messages
- Querying for Message Status
- Lessen the Load with Status Update Callbacks

Before You Decide on a Gateway
Sending SMS from Your Own Computer
Sending Bulk Messages
Summary

Chapter 7: Adding Spice to Messages: MMS
- Creating a "Special Offers" MMS message
  - Time for Action: Compose an MMS message using Nokia Tools
  - What Just Happened: Understanding MMS Structure

Controlling Message Presentation
- Understanding SMIL Elements
  - Modules and Elements of SMIL 2.1 Mobile Profile
- More SMIL: Applying Transitions

Sending Multimedia Messages through Our Gateway
- Time for Action: Sending MMS Messages via Clickatell
- How is an MMS Message Sent?
- MMS Gateways do Good Work

Receiving Photos from Customers via MMS
- Time for Action: Decoding an MMS Message
- What Just Happened: Decoding the MMS Message

MMS's Potential is Yet to Be Exploited!
Summary

Chapter 8: Making Money via Mobile Devices
- Getting Money through PayPal
  - Time for Action: Setting Up the PayPal Account for Mobile Payments
  - Why This Configuration?
- Mobile Checkout is a Three-Step Flow
  - Time for Action: Integrating PayPal Mobile Checkout with POTR
  - How Does This Work?

Evaluating Mobile Payment Methods
- Premium SMS
- WAP-Based Credit Card Payment
- Direct Billing
- Proximity Payment

Security Concerns in Mobile Payments

Using SMS in Mobile Payment
Receiving Text Messages
- Getting a Short Code
  - Receiving Messages via Clickatell
  - Sending Messages That Can Be Replied To

Making it Easier—Payment Gateways Help get More Money!
Summary

Chapter 9: Interactive Voice
- First, Some Basics
  - Busting Some Jargon
  - IVR Infrastructure: Hosted or Owned?
    - Time for Action: Setting Up an Interactive Voice Response Platform
- Designing the Call Flow of Our Application
- Creating an Application to Play Audio
  - Time for Action: Creating an Application and Welcoming Callers

Making Choices by Key Presses
- Time for Action: Prompting the User for Next Action

Transferring Calls in Voice XML

Handling Errors
- Adding Global Navigation with the <link> Tag

Recognizing Voice
- Storing Variables at the Application Level
- Detecting the Caller's Phone Number
  - Time for Action: Let's Put It All Together

Writing Complex Grammar Rules
- Time for Action: Writing Complex Grammars

Selecting the Topping and Quantity
Confirming and Submitting an Order
- Time for Action: Confirming and Submitting an Order
- How Did It Turn It All Around?

Summary

Chapter 10: Mobile AJAX
- Getting Pizza Recipes via AJAX
  - Devising our AJAX Strategy
    - Time for Action: Showing Recipes
    - What's Going on in the Background?
    - What if Your Device Does Not Support AJAX?
  - Adding Navigation
    - Time for Action: Adding Navigation for Recipes
- Adding Comments
  - Time for Action: Submitting Comments
  - What's the Deal with All that Form Code?
- I Want More AJAX on My Mobile!

Understanding iPhone Application Development
More Ways to Build Rich Mobile Apps
Summary

Chapter 11: Mobile Web 3.0?
- Mobile Web Applications are Growing Faster than Humans
- Mobile Widgets and Mobile Browsers
  - The Advantages of Mobile Widgets
- Mobile Browsers Get Better
  - Do We Need Server-Side Adaptation?

Connectivity—Mobile Networks and Occasionally Connected Devices
- Occasionally Connected Computing

Androids will Invade Your Mobile Space Soon!
- Getting Inside the Android
- Other Players

Is the Mobile the Next Computer?
- How will People Use Their Mobile Computer?
- Mobile is Not Limited to Phones

Some More Analysis!
- Location-Based Services will Mushroom
- SMS Messaging will Continue Its Hold
- Mobile Payments will Happen, Albeit Slowly
- You will Build Some Kickass Mobile Web Applications