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Oracle Application Express for Mobile Web Applications is an action driven book, taking you by the hand through all required steps in building your very own web application that will run on phones, tablets, and other mobile devices. Because you’ve built every piece of it yourself, you will know exactly how every tiny part is used and how you can tweak it to your own – or your customer's – taste.

Oracle Application Express is widely known in the Oracle community as a great tool for creating web applications suitable for desktop browsers. Features have now been added to open up the world of mobile browsing, bringing the simplicity and expressiveness of Appliction Express to bear in developing applications to run with an almost-native look and feel on platforms such as iOS, Android, and Windows Phone.

Oracle Application Express for Mobile Web Applications helps you translate your knowledge of Oracle Application Express into developing for mobile devices. The book and its running example provide all the knowledge you need to create professional looking mobile web applications.

• Takes you through building a mobile web application from start to finish.
• Gives insight into the components necessary for a professional looking mobile application.
• Helps you become an even better and more all-round Oracle Application Express developer.

What you’ll learn

• Build mobile applications to run from iPhones, iPads, Android devices, and Windows-based phones and tablets.
• Make enterprise reporting and business functions accessible to mobile devices.
• Customize the look-and-feel of your mobile applications.
• Respond to gestures such as swiping and pointing, and to changes in device orientation.
• Enhance mobile applications through the use of plugins.
• Deploy applications into the Apple and Android stores.

Who this book is for

Oracle Application Express for Mobile Web Applications is aimed at Oracle Application Express developers wanting to develop and deploy applications for use on mobile devices. The book is also useful to any developer in an Oracle Database environment who is looking for a quick-and-easy, yet powerful way to extend business functions and reporting to mobile devices.

About the Authors

Ira Greenberg directs the Center of Creative Computation and is Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Meadows School of the Arts and Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX. He is the author of Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art and The Essential Guide to Processing for Flash Developers, both from friends of ED/Apress. Ira received his BFA from Cornell University and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dianna Xu is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Bryn Mawr College, PA. She received her B.A in Computer Science from Smith College and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Deepak Kumar is a Professor of Computer Science at Bryn Mawr College and the associate director for education and diversity of the Center for Science of Information, a National Science Foundation Science & Technology Center (www.soihub.org). His research interests include artificial intelligence, science of information, data visualization, creative computing, and computer science education. He received a MS in Instrumentation from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, and a MS and PhD in computer science from the University at Buffalo.