Possible Book Content

[lee]

Here is a first cut at a QCiPhone book. What do you think?

Lee

Chapter 1: Getting Started
a: downloading and Installing QuickConnectiPhone
b: using the Xcode QC template
1 - add button that updates the DOM directly without a
stack

Chapter 2: The QC framework and designing an application
a: Stacks and Control Functions - the focal point of execution
1 - Purpose of ValCF, BCF, VCF, and ECF types and their
function parameters
2 - Framework handles passing of data
b: Designing a stack
c: Building a stack from a design

Chapter 3: Simple BCFs and VCFs
a: Getting values from user inputs (BCF)
b: Modifying the DOM (VCF)

Chapter 4: ValCFs and ECFs
a: Check inputs for correct formatting (ValCF)
b: Turning off error display (VCF)
c: Displaying error messages (ECF)

Chapter 5: Using the Databases
a: Native vs. in-browser
b: DataAccessObject
1 - constructor
2 - setData
3 - getData
b: DBScript
1 - constructor
2 - addStatement
3 - execute
Chapter 6: Using ServerAccessObject
a: constructor
b: getData
c: setData
Chapter 7: Using LocationAccessObject
a: constructor
b: getLocation
Chapter 8: Using Native Footers
a: QCNativeFooter object
1 - constructor
2 - setButtons
3 - show
4 - hide
b: QCNativeButton
1 - constructor
Chapter 9: Google Maps
a: location array
b: show map
Chapter 10: Audio and Video
a: HTML 5
b: standard
Chapter 11: Contacts
a: showContacts
Chapter 12: Push API

[Jim Ransom]

Lee -

Is there a manual using Android and QC?

[Bcit]

As of yet, no. I am working on a way of making Andriod and other
mobile platform development easier and would like to wait on creating
that documentation. That way it will be up to date.

Lee

Sent from my iPhone

[PTPT]

Looks good. Do Chapter 2, sections b and c include design and build in
dashcode as well as design and build in xcode? I think an example of
creating the same representative design in each would be helpful.

Also, a section on in-app sales support, when that's ready will be a
big one, I think.

thanks, Lee

Jim

On Nov 17, 5:11 am, Bcit <barney....@gmail.com> wrote:
> As of yet, no.  I am working on a way of making Andriod and other  
> mobile platform development easier and would like to wait on creating  
> that documentation.  That way it will be up to date.
>
> Lee
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>

[Lee Barney]

Chapter two would cover both Dashcode and Xcode versions.  Adding in-app sales would also be big as you say.

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[JR]

Lee,

I'm reading "Developing Hybrid Applications for the iPhone". I'd like
to see a little more depth on remote data access in the
ServerAccessObject chapter. I think the following would be helpful:

1) Explain why it is a good idea to provide remote data access with a
web application or web service, rather than implementing a database
connection to a remote database directly from the iPhone.

2) Briefly compare XML and JSON.

3) Include a ServerAccessObjectJSON example program.

-- Jeff

[Lee Barney]

Jeff,

Thanks for the feedback.  

Would you like an explanation here or should I just make sure that this information is included in the upcomming 'how to use' book?

Lee

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[JR]

Lee,

If you include the information in the new book, that will be great.
If a JSON example becomes available sooner, that would be even
better.

Also, a little more of a bird's eye view on QC vs Objective-C iPhone
development vs mobile web app development would have helped me. On
the first read, it wasn't clear to me which packages you supplied as
part of QC and which packages were from other sources. For example, I
had to google WebKit's database implementation and json2.js to get my
bearings and understand how you are leveraging those resources.

As a Rails developer, I naturally considered the Rhomobile platform
for iPhone development. But lack of documentation and a few basic
glitches made me a bit uncomfortable. I discovered QC when I found
your book. Thanks for creating and sharing this framework. It has
driven me to explore Dashcode and I'm discovering how useful it is.
It will take me a while to get up to speed with Objective-C. But with
QuickConnect, I am building apps now, learning Objective-C and X-code
along the way.

-- Jeff

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[Lee Barney]

Jeff,

One interesting thing about writing tech books is that as an author you have limited freedom to create what you want.  The technical editors made me change quite a few things that I wanted to do.  It is interesting to hear that most of the things I wanted to do are what people are saying is missing but the tech editors had more pull than me.  

In fact one of them said the book should be scrapped since Objective-C is how everyone "should" write iPhone apps.  Thankfully the editor agreed with me on that one.

So the book that ended up getting written was about how to create a hybrid application framework rather than how to use QC, etc.

With this next book I'm going to be in full control.  I think it would be great to have some people that are using QC be the tech editors on it and have the community more fully involved.  That, I think, should yield a much superior book.

Lee

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[JR]

Lee,

I'd be happy to contribute.

-- Jeff

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> Jeff,
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