Phone for Me, Tablet for We: Building a multi screen app in One Hour

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Phone for Me, Tablet for We: Building a multi screen app in One Hour

Abhay AggarwalXebia India

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Phones & Tablets – Are they different?

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Something happened…

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It’s all in the design

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One design, Multiple Personalities

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The Apple Bandwagon

960 x 640 screen rez 1024 x 768 screen rez

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The Android Carnival

240x320

240x400

320x480

360x640

480x800

540x960

1280x800

800x480

1024x600

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Become a Native App Developer…

• Highly fragmented mobile technology landscape

• Need specialized resources or learn each technology

• Production and maintenance costs overshoots the budget

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…Or, you can code smart

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Let’s build an app...

...or not!

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The Key to Nirvana

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#1IDENTIFY YOUR USER

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#2Sketch basic layouts for different sizes

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#3 CONSTANT = CONSISTENT

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#4Modularize your code

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#5Separate the business logic from user

interface

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#6Plan for data storage

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#7 Use CSS & resource bundles extensively

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Your thoughts?

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abhay aggarwal . www.xebiaindia.com . aaggarwal@xebia.com

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