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"An expert introduction to Samsung's new mobile platform Bada is a new platform that runs on mass market phones and enables you to build cutting-edge applications for mobile devices. As an access layer, bada has all the advantages of native coding and provides the power of multi-tasking and multi-threading. This book serves as a complete introduction to the exciting capabilities of bada and shows you how bada offers commerce and business services with server-side support. The authors walk you through the complete set of platform APIs and detail the architecture of bada. Code fragments are featured throughout the book as well as examples that utilize all of the major APIs, from sensors to maps and from phonebook to billing. Introduces Samsung's new platform, bada. Explains the bada framework, its APIs, and the bada architecture. Walks you through how bada is a logically structured mobile platform that allows you to build exciting apps for mobile devices. Features code fragments and numerous examples that address all the major APIs. Discover how bada boasts the richest set of end-to-end service, commerce, and billing APIs with this book! Ben Morris is a freelance author and developer, specializing in mobile software including Symbian OS and mobile widgets"-- [Provided by publisher]
"Throughout the book is illustrated with code fragments from buildable examples that exercise all the major APIs, from sensors to maps, and from phonebook to billing"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Just the Facts
• pt. I About bada
• ch. 1 Mobile Difference
• 1.1. Mobile Context
• 1.2. Characteristics of Mobile Software
• 1.2.1. Technological Differences
• 1.2.2. Differences Related to Usability and User Experiences
• 1.2.3. Differences in the Ecosystem
• 1.3. Mobile App Development Best-Practices
• ch. 2 bada Basics
• What You Will Learn
• What You Will Need
• 2.1. Your First bada Application
• 2.1.1. Skeleton App
• 2.1.2. Project Structure
• 2.1.3. App Metadata
• 2.1.4. Build and Run
• 2.1.5. Standard Output
• 2.2. Application UI
• 2.2.1. Frames, Forms, and Controls

• 2.2.2. Standard Elements of a Form - Indicator Bar, Title Bar, Soft Keys, Option Menu
• 2.2.3. Handling Events
• 2.2.4. Summary
• 3. UI Builder
• 2.3.1. Simple UI
• 2.3.2. Form Properties
• 2.3.3. Buddy List
• 2.4. Hooking Up Your Forms to Your Code
• 2.5. App Icon
• 2.6. Becoming Multilingual in Three Easy Steps
• 2.6.1. Add New Languages
• 2.6.2. Add Text for Each Language
• 2.6.3. Use String Resource IDs in Your Code
• 2.7. From Idea to Published App
• ch. 3 Beyond the Basics
• What You Will Learn
• What You Will Need
• 3.1. Expanding the Application Skeleton
• 3.1.1. Being Event Driven
• 3.1.2. Runtime App Lifecycle
• 3.1.3. Note about Frameworks
• 3.2. Using the UI Framework
• 3.2.1. Control Hierarchy
• 3.2.2. More about UI Controls
• 3.2.3. More about Frame
• 3.2.4. More about Form
• 3.3. Using Graphics
• 3.3.1. More about Canvas
• 3.3.2. Graphics Primitives
• 3.3.3. Bitmaps and Images
• 3.3.4. Colours
• 3.4. BuddyFix UI Revisited
• 3.4.1. Adding an OptionMenu
• 3.4.2. Adding a Soft Key
• 3.4.3. Populating a List
• ch. 4 bada Fundamentals
• What You Will Learn
• Waht You Will Need
• 4.1. Architecture Overview
• 4.1.1. bada Features
• 4.1.2. Short bada History
• 4.1.3. Layered Model of the bada Platform
• 4.2. bada Coding Idioms
• 4.2.1. C++and bada
• 4.2.2. Native System
• 4.2.3. Alternatives to Native
• 4.2.4. C++ Pitfalls
• 4.2.5. Native Idioms and Types Tutorials
• 4.3. bada Basic Functionality
• 4.3.1. Native Types
• 4.3.2. Using Strings, Characters, and Unicode
• 4.3.3. Using Buffers
• 4.3.4. Collection Classes
• 4.3.5. Using Dates and Times
• 4.3.6. Using Numbers
• 4.4. Security and the Privilege Model in bada
• 4.4.1. Privileges in bada
• 4.4.2. In Practice
• ch. 5 Exploring bada Services
• What You Will Learn
• What You Will Need
• 5.1. What are the Services?
• 5.1.1. Location Service
• 5.1.2. Social Service
• 5.1.3. Content Service
• 5.1.4. Commerce Service
• 5.1.5. Single Sign On
• 5.2. How It Works
• 5.2.1. Device-to-Server Interaction - bada APIs
• 5.2.2. bada Server and Third-Party Server Interaction with Open APIs
• 5.3. Services in Detail
• 5.3.1. Location as a Service
• 5.3.2. Social Network Service - All Connected
• 5.3.3. Content Service - Content is King
• 5.3.4. Commerce Service - Make Your Own Business
• 5.3.5. Component Setup
• ch. 6 bada Namespaces
• What You Will Learn
• What You Will Need
• 6.1. using Directives and Declarations
• 6.2. How This Chapter Is Organised
• 6.3. Namespaces in Detail
• pt.
• II Recipes
• Group 1 Fundamentals
• Recipe 1.1 Save to and Restore from the Registry
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls and Related Topics
• Recipe 1.2 Use Error Handling in bada
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Recipe 1.3 Use Two-phase Construction and Leak-free Destruction
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Recipe 1.4 Create an AppControl to Interact with a Base Application
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipe
• Recipe 1.5 Create and Use a Timer
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipe
• Recipe 1.6 Parse XML Content
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipe
• Recipe 1.7 Get Dates and Times
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipe
• Group 2 UI Basics
• Recipe 2.1 Add a Form to a Frame-based App
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Recipe 2.2 Add Soft Keys to a Form and Get Actions
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipe
• Recipe 2.3 Add an Options Menu to a Form and Get User Selections
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipe
• Recipe 2.4 Add a Simple Button Control to a Form
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipe
• Recipe 2.5 Pop Up a Message Box with Dismiss
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Recipe 2.6 Pop Up a Keypad and Get Input from It
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipe
• Recipe 2.7 Get Touch Events
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipe
• Recipe 2.8 Get Multi-touch Events
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipe
• Recipe 2.9 Create a Custom List Control
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipe
• Recipe 2.10 Implement a Form Manager
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipe
• Recipe 2.11 Get Soft Key and Hard Key Events
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipe
• Recipe 2.12 Use a Web Control
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipe
• Group 3 Extended UI and Sensors
• Recipe 3.1 Use Gesture Input and Motion UI
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipe
• Recipe 3.2 Get Device Orientation from the Magnetometer (Compass)
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Recipe 3.3 Get Readings from the Tilt Sensor
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Recipe 3.4 Detect a Face from Video
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipe
• Recipe 3.5 Recognise a Face
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipes
• Group 4 Multimedia Content
• Recipe 4.1 Use Bitmaps and Images
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipe
• Recipe 4.2 Draw Graphics Primitives
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipe
• Recipe 4.3 Open the Camera and Get and Display Live Frames
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipes
• Recipe 4.4 Use an Overlay Panel
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipe
• Recipe 4.5 Record Audio from the Microphone or Audio Input Device
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Recipe 4.6 Play a Sound
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipes
• Group 5 Networking
• Recipe 5.1 Create a Network Connection
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Recipe 5.2 Use Secure Sockets
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Recipe 5.3 Establish Normal and Pipeline Connection Modes for HTTP Sessions
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Recipe 5.4 Use Bluetooth Profiles
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Recipe 5.5 Use Non-blocking and Blocking TCP and UDP Sockets
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Recipe 5.6 Set Up and Ad Hoc Wi-Fi Network
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Recipe 5.7 Query a DNS Server
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Group 6 Maps and Location
• 6.1. Get Geographic Data from a Provider and Show a Map
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• 6.2. React to Location changes
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Group 7 Services and Social Networking
• 7.1. Create Content on the bada Server
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• 7.2. Use the bada SNS Gateway to Access a Scocial Network Service such as Facebook
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipes
• 7.3. Send a Tweet from Twitter
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Rlated Recipe
• 7.4. Upload a Photo to Facebook
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipes
• 7.5. Get Notes from Facebook using RESTful APIs
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• Related Recipes
• 7.6. Use the BuddyService to Add a Buddy
• Problem Description
• Recipe
• Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
• pt. III Appendices
• Appendix A Downloading and Installing the bada SDK
• Contents note continued: APPendix B UML Primer
• B.1. Class Diagrams
• B.2. Sequence Diagrams
• Appendix C Software Engineering Model for Mobile App Development
• Some Mobile Software Engineering Best-practices
• Phase 1 Feasibility and Economics Efficiency Analysis
• Stage 1.1 Requirements Engineering
• Stage 1.2 Design Drafting
• Stage 1.3 Early Prototyping
• Stage 1.4 User Acceptance Testing
• Phase 2 Software Product Realisation
• Stage 2.1 Requirements Reviewing
• Stage 2.2 Design Detailing
• Stage 2.3 Defining Test Cases
• Stage 2.4 Programming
• Stage 2.5 Testing
• Stage 2.6 User Acceptance Testing
• Phase 3 Distribution
• Stage 3.1 Marketing
• Stage 3.2 Preparing for Deployment
• Stage 3.3 Production Maintainance.

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Author/Creator:

Morris, Ben, 1958-

Contributors:

Bortenschlager, Manfred

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Introduction to Bada: a developer's guide [by Morris, B.]

Subjects:

Bada (Electronic resource)

Samsŏng Chŏnja

Application program interfaces (Computer software)

Smartphones — Programming

Mobile computing

General Notes:

Includes index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

QA76.76.A63 M67 2010eb

ISBNs:

9780470978665 (electronic bk.)
047097866X (electronic bk.)
9780470974018 (pbk.) [Invalid]
047097401X (pbk.) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

680228315

Other Control Numbers:

EBC589183 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp3492564