With forewords by Jan Bosch, Nokia and Antero Taivalsaari, Sun Microsystems. Learn how to program mobile devices of the future! The importance of mobile systems programming has emerged over recent years as a new domain in software development. Design software that runs on mobile devices require that developers combine the rules applicable in embedded environment, memory-awareness, limited performance, security and limited resources with features that are needed in workstation environment; modifiability, run-time extensions, and rapid application development. Programming Mobile Devices is a practical, comprehensive introduction to programming mobile systems. This book is a platform independent approach to programming mobile devices: it does not focus on specific technologies, and devices, but rather to evaluate the component areas and issues common to all mobile software platforms.