Chapter 15: Deploying an Application Suite
It is one thing to write applications that you use yourself in your safe development environment. It is quite another to send your carefully crafted programs out into the wild where people will install it on hardware you didn't plan for, use it in ways you weren't expecting, and encounter problems for which you did not test. This final chapter of the book will attempt to prepare you for several of these issues, to think from the perspective of the user without any development tools, and to take some of the guesswork out of the final processes of developing and deploying cross-platform apps.
We will look at the following subject areas as we complete our study of cross-platform development:
- Configuring for a wide audience
- Securing data
- Adding the graphical touch
- Establishing product identity
- Testing for deployment
- Distributing the final product
Let's get our server and mobile app ready to...