Audience

This book is written for PowerBuilder developers who want to develop native iOS and Android applications in PowerBuilder IDE. It recommends the best practices that a PowerBuilder developer should follow when utilizing the PowerBuilder UI components to design a great user interface and user experience for the native mobile application.

It is strongly recommended that the user carefully reads through and fully understands iOS Human Interface Guidelines and Android Design, especially the UI Design Basics and the Design Strategies parts of iOS Human Interface Guidelines, which describe the guidelines and principles that help the user design a superlative user interface and user experience for the mobile application.

This book, though summarizing some of the key design principles from that guidelines, will mainly focus on the best practices of PB development which when followed consistently, will make sure the application looks and feels like it was designed expressly for a particular mobile device.