Hi! I'm Amit Bijlani.

>>And I am Ben Jakuben.

If you're not sure whether to become an iPhone or Android developer,

this learning adventure is for you.

Learn all the basics of both the platforms

and then decide which you're comfortable with.

>>Ideally as a mobile developer, you should be cross-disciplinary,

but it's okay if you want to focus on one or the other.

Now, we assume you have little or no programming experience,

so we start with an introduction to programming.

Next, we dive straight into iPhone development

with Build a Simple iPhone App Project

where you will build a fun Crystal Ball application

while learning the development tool Xcode

and programming language Objective-C.

You will also learn how to launch your app to the Appstore.

We then take our basic app development knowledge

and advance it further with Build a Blog Reader iPhone app

where you will learn the basic design pattern known as Model View Controller,

learn to download data from the web

and display a webpage inside your app.

>>Then you will build the same apps on the Android platform

to round out your knowledge of all things mobile.

You will see how the concepts of mobile development are similar on both platforms

and you will learn the tools and languages of each.

For the Android apps, you will see how to use the development tool

known as Eclipse and the basics of the Java programming language.

You will also learn how to publish your app on Google Play

and the Amazon Appstore.

By the end, you should know the basics of both platforms

and can continue learning on one or the other.

>>Or hopefully both.