Recently Tyndale’s web team—Josh Force, Sarn Phamornsuwana, Jamie Todd, and Marc Hester—launched a ­mobile version of THP’s corporate website in response to the growing use of mobile web browsing. You can view the website on your mobile device at tyndale.com or by going to mobile.tyndale.com on your desktop browser.
For the past few years the web team has [...]

In the consumer mobile operating system arena there are many OSes to choose from such as Symbian, Blackberry RIM, Windows Mobile 7, and webOS.  All of these mobile operating systems pales in comparison to the two most popular, Apple iOS and Google Android holding 16% and 33% respectfully according to an April 2011 article from [...]

Here at Tyndale, the web team is hard at work on a few exciting projects consisting of creating websites tailored specific for mobile devices. As we familiarize ourselves into this new frontier, we’ve been discovering that even though many aspect of mobile web development is similar to creating websites for the desktop computer, there [...]

From Various Talks:
Designing a Seamless Web to Mobile Experience:
Omar Green
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Mobile Opportunities for Entrepreneurs in 2011
James Pierce
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Mobile and tablet platforms unsurprisingly received a lot of coverage at SXSW. We’ve been researching and implementing mobile and app development at Tyndale – hopefully the following gleaned observations will be helpful.
There was a lot of talk on mobile and [...]

I attended a good amount of design and user experience/interface centered talks at SXSW. Here are some of the highlights:
from: Anatomy of a Design Decision
Jared M. Spool
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Types of design:
Each of the following are increasingly time consuming and involved. Jared was quick to point out that each of these types of design has an appropriate place [...]

This week has been a roller-coaster week for anyone who’s in the publishing and book industry.  Apple started out the week unveiling it’s new subscription service Tuesday allowing publishers to sell subscriptions on a weekly, monthly, yearly, or other period of time, instead of selling each issue separately like a newsstand in addition to other [...]

As promised, here is a snapshot view of what’s involve in my process to setup the environment to start developing an iPhone app using a multi-platform environment known as PhoneGap.

Before you can even install the Apple Software Development Kit (SDK), you’ll need to be a registered Apple Developer ($99/yr).  Why does Apple charges developers [...]

PLATFORM
“Mobile apps” is the latest hot trend in today’s business world and I get the privilege here at Tyndale House Publishers to create one. I’m currently developing the app using a cross platform development framework called PhoneGap.  So far I like the framework a lot.
What I really like about PhoneGap is that it allows me [...]