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Create native web applications for Android devices, using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and related technologies. With this video course, mobile and web developer Max Firtman shows you how to build apps for Android smartphones and tablets that you can distribute through the Google Play store and other marketplaces.

Today's market for mobile apps goes beyond the iPhone to include BlackBerry, Nokia, Windows Phone, and smartphones powered by Android, webOS, and other platforms.

Most companies have a website and a pair of native apps that work as separate entities. In this course, mobile web expert Max Firtman shows you how to integrate and support each platform. You'll learn how native apps can communicate with websites and how this solves a range of problems and creates a richer user experience. Web and mobile developers alike will benefit from this timely addition to Firtman's Mobile Web App Development Video Learning Path.

In this video, Max Firtman explains the technology central to mobile web development: the webview. He identifies the webviews available today and shows you how to properly configure them for optimal performance and security. You'll explore the differences between UIWebView and WKWebView on iOS, compare Android webviews, examine available third party tools, learn how to use an embedded webview, and practice debugging techniques.

Dropped Internet connections are common in the mobile web. In this video, Max Firtman covers advanced technologies that keep a web site running when the network disappears. You'll learn a range of useful offline techniques, such as how to install a web site as an app into a device, how to store the data locally, how to sync the data at a later time, and how to push messages to a user when the browser is closed. Developers with an understanding of JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and server-side technologies will find this to be a useful addition to Firtman's Mobile Web App Development Video Learning Path..