A short presentation on how to become a mobile app developer.

1. How To Become A Mobile
Application Developer 101
Abdulrahman Saleh K. Al-Otaiba
November 7, 2010
website: http://www.mawqey.com
twitter: @alotaiba

2. For complaints, I’m @HaveAProblem

3. Qontacts
• Open Source
• Free
• Cross Platform
• UpdateQatari Contacts’
Numbers to the New Plan
(2010)

4. Mobile Apps Industry Is Huge
It is currently estimated at $7 billion, with expected increase to
almost $17.5 billion in 2012 [GetJar]

5. Mobile Apps & Entertainment
1998 2010
?
Future

6. Fragmentation In The Mobile
World
Mobiles differ in their:
• Operating System • Screen Size
• Hardware • Input Method (Touch,
Keys)

7. How To Grow White Hair 101

8. How To Make An App
Non-Developers Way
• Hire
a developer or an
agency
• Useeasy services like,
AppMakr, Mobile Roadie,
and GameSalad (Games)

9. How To Make An App
Web-Developers Way
You can use your existing HTML, JavaScript, CSS skills to create:
• Native Apps
• Mobile Web Apps

10. Native Apps For Web-
Developers
• No need to learn a new • Access native functionality
language
Free and open-source

11. Mobile Web Apps
• Web is open and Web App Native App
accessible platform
• Noneed for approval
process
• Cross platform

12. Mobile Web App Tools
• Leverage the use of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
• Sencha Touch and jQuery Mobile

13. Mobile Web App Demos
jQuery Mobile
Built with jQuery Mobile
http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0a1/
TouchSolitaire
Built with Sencha Touch
http://touchsolitaire.mobi/

14. How To Make An App
Native Way
• a.k.a Insane Way
• Learn each platform’s programming language and framework
• Accessto mobile specific features such as camera, address
book, and accelerometer
• High performance gain

15. Thank You!

17. Credits
• Twitter Angry Icon http://findicons.com/icon/221967/twitter_square_angry
• “Sizing Up the Global Apps Market” research done by GetJar http://blog.getjar.com/developer/market-research/sizing-up-the-global-
apps-market/
• Stock exchange background http://www.flickr.com/photos/st3f4n/2865510059/
• OmNomNom (Classic Snake) By Phase2 Media http://itunes.apple.com/app/omnomnom-classic-snake/id287979596?mt=8
• Need for Speed Undercover iPhone Racing Game
• Phone manufacturers’ logos http://jquerymobile.com/
• Robot Chicken Mad Scientist Mask Costume http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002QLGPNW/ref=asc_df_B002QLGPNW1300405?
smid=A1AVI0PMETI57Y&tag=nextagusmp0353612-20&linkCode=asn&creative=395105&creativeASIN=B002QLGPNW
• Web coder bumper sticker http://technabob.com/blog/2009/08/24/web-coder-bumper-stickers/
• The Questioning Roboto http://www.flickr.com/photos/hiddenloop/4541195635/