About the Reviewers

ABDUL AHAD is a senior consultant with 10 years' IT experience. He has worked on different platforms, technologies, and tools. He has excellent skill sets and knowledge on IBM and mobility solutions. He works in a premier business partner company of IBM.

Houcem BERRAYANA is a senior Java software developer. Because he works in the IT services domain, he has had the chance to work on many technologies and domains such as JEE, Android, Worklight, PHP, and Rails. And he has experience in dealing with different kinds of clients such as banks, telecom operators, startups, and big companies. He loves web development and always prefers designing the backend of an application. He started using the hybrid mobile application in 2010.

He has already delivered three Worklight projects, and one of them is considered as one of the biggest Worklight deployments until now. He was designing the details of both JavaScript and server-side implementations.

He works at Proxym-IT, a very cool Tunisian IT company, providing IT services and works for cool projects and technologies.

I would like to thank my wife for being patient during all the difficult moments we've encountered so far. I can never forget the support I've received from my mother and father all this while.

Touchapon Kraisingkorn is an IBMer who's worked with IBM Worklight since its acquisition. He's experienced in HTML5 and cross-platform development. Six years of HTML5 experience and five years of Java programming experience allows him to deeply understand how Worklight works under the hood.

Worklight is wildly popular in IBM, Thailand, and IBM has made it clear that mobile platform is one of its main focuses.

Mohammad Omer Raza is a graduate with a Bachelor of Computer Science and Information Technology from NED University. He started his career as a software engineer of mobile solutions. With his experience, he was able to complete the IBM Worklight certification, which was one of his greatest achievements at an early stage. Working on the highly rated AMEX Mobile app was a great test and milestone. Besides working on IBM Worklight, he has been working on different technologies such as PhoneGap, Titanium, and so on. He opted for a career in mobile development when he was in his final year of graduation after selecting an Android app as his final year project. For this project, he received the second highest score in his class. He was among the top 20 individuals, out of 100 who participated in Incubator 2012. He was selected for his project, which gave him a strong indication that mobile development was the career path he was looking for. He has started blogging on http://omerhw.blogspot.in/.

I would like to thank Almighty Allah for all his blessings on me and then would like to thank my dad, late Mohammad Raza Siraj; without his efforts, I wouldn't have been where I am today.

My thanks to the authors who wrote this book, Muhammad Saif Uddin and Talha Haroon; the staff of Packt Publishing; and contributors Priyanka Shah and Jomin Varghese who worked dedicatedly in completing this book with the best lines in it and gave me the opportunity to review the code of the material.

Special thanks to Mustafa Qutbuddin, CEO, Royal Cyber; Syed Basheer, Senior Manager, Royal Cyber; and ABDUL AHAD, Project Manager, Royal Cyber.

Saurabh Srivastava leads User Experience and HCI initiatives in IBM India Research Lab. His area of research includes the development of bottom-of-pyramid communities, speech interfaces, gestural interactions, information visualization, intelligent user interfaces, audio integration methods, and tangible media. As far as IBM research goes, he is part of the Telecom Research Group and focuses to deliver mobile-enabled solutions for emerging markets.

He has authored many publications in scientific conferences and journals. He is an active onboard member of the reviewing committee of reputed conferences and has chaired multiple ACM/IEEE workshops. He has been invited for talks and lectures in reputed institutes across the world.

He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

I would like to thank the entire Packt Publishing team for a smooth and insightful review process. A huge thanks to Jomin Varghese for his support and patience throughout. Also, sincere thanks to Nishanth for giving me the opportunity to examine this thoughtful piece of work.

A special thanks to Ketki, my wife, for understanding me during those weekends when I was busy with the book instead of sharing house chores and my time with her.