Preliminary Considerations – Cost of Development – Mobile Myths – Mobile Web Presence – Mobile Applications – Marketing – Web Services for Mobile Devices – What is a web service - Web Service Languages (formats)-Creating Example Web Service - Debugging Web Service

Effective Use of Screen Real Estate – Understanding Mobile Application Users – Understanding Mobile Information Design – Understanding Mobile Platforms – Using the Tools for Mobile Interface Design – Choosing a Mobile Web Option – Adaptive Mobile Website – Mobile Web Applications with HTML 5

Getting started with Android Programming – what is Android? -Getting to know the Android User Interfaces – Designing Your User interface using Views – Displaying Pictures and Menus with Views – Using Image views to Display pictures – Using menus with views – Data Persistence – Saving and loading user preferences - Persisting data to files – Creating and using Data bases – Content Providers.

SMS Messaging, Sending E-mail – Networking – Downloading Binary Data, Text Files- Accessing Web Services – Performing Asynchronous Calls – Location Based Services – Displaying Maps – Getting Location Data – Creating your own services – Communicating between a service and an activity – Binding activities to Services

Getting started with iOS – iOS Project – Debugging iOS Apps – Objective C Basics – Hello Word App – Building the derby app in iOS – Windows Phone 7 Project – Building Derby App in Windows Phone 7-Getting started with Blackberry-Getting the tools you need-Getting started with Titanium-Building the derby app in Titanium.