Magento Mobile How-to

Starting

Darko Goleš
November 2012

Create and configure your own Magento Mobile application and publish it for the Android and iOS platforms with this book and ebook.

$14.99

RRP $14.99

eBook

Book Details

ISBN 139781849693660

Paperback78 pages

About This Book

Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
Style and theme your Magento Mobile Application interface
Configure Product categories and add static content for mobile
Prepare and publish your Magento mobile application targeting iPhone/iPad and Android platforms

Who This Book Is For

This book is great for Magento store owners and administrators that want to expand their business to mobile platforms with minimal investment. Also this is an irreplaceable manual for Magento developers when configuring Magento Mobile applications for clients.

Chapter 1: Magento Mobile How-to

Installing and configuring Magento Mobile Admin Panel (Must know)

Getting acquainted with Magento Mobile Admin Panel (Must know)

Creating a separate Store View for mobile application (Must know)

Configuring mobile themes for our Magento Mobile Store View (Must know)

Preparing and updating product category thumbnail images for mobiles (Must know)

Preparing your icons, logos, and other images for mobile applications (Should know)

Updating an application's copyright information (Must know)

Creating and configuring a basic mobile application (Must know)

Styling your mobile application (Must know)

Adding static content (Must know)

Configuring payment methods (Must know)

Configuring social networks integration (Should know)

Configuring the Push notification feature (Become an expert)

Installing and using the Magento Mobile previewer app (Should know)

Enrolling into the iOS Developer Program (Should know)

Enrolling into the Android Developer program (Should know)

Application submission to Magento Mobile (Must know)

Application resubmission and monitoring progress (Should know)

Push notification messages administration (Become an expert)

What You Will Learn

Configure your Magento Mobile application for the iOS and Android platforms
Create a separate Store View with your Magento mobile theme applied
Prepare Category thumbnail images and other graphics for using inside your mobile app
Configure the Magento payment methods for mobile
Integrate social networks inside your app including Facebook, Twitter, and Linked-In
Style your mobile application using the Magento Mobile Admin panel
Use the Magento previewer application for testing and previewing your app before production
Submit your application to Magento Mobile and monitor the publishing process to App Store/Google Play

In Detail

Over the last few years, mobile platforms have quickly expanded to reach every part of modern society. Magento e-commerce platform is no exception and many Magento store owners are aware that they will get more customers on their stores inside a “mobile-users community”.

"Magento Mobile How-To" is a practical, easy to follow, complete guide for unleashing the real power of Magento Mobile. Whether you are a Magento store owner, developer, or just a curious reader, the clear step-by-step examples will give you a practical knowledge about creating Magento Mobile applications and publishing them on different mobile platforms.

By following the complete process of creating a Magento Mobile application, you will learn how to create, design, configure and prepare your own application and then publish it on the iOS and Android mobile platforms.

Get acquainted with the Magento Mobile Admin panel which will enable you to configure a separate Store View using a Magento mobile theme, prepare category images and other graphics.

Enhance your application by configuring the payment methods, integrating with social networks, configuring and sending push notification messages and finally submitting the application to Magento Mobile for deploying on favourite mobile platforms.

Authors

Darko Goleš

Darko Goleš is a Magento Certified Developer who works and lives in Croatia. He has spent over nine years learning and developing both desktop and web applications in different programming environments such as VB6, C++, VB. NET, C#, and later in PHP—Joomla, Wordpress, and so on. After working on different projects and learning different platforms, he found that his real passion in the developer's world is web development and PHP. For the last year and a half, he has been working as a Senior PHP Web Developer for Inchoo Ltd (www.inchoo.net). In the beginning of his career with Inchoo, he worked as a web support Mobile team member, specializing in Web Services API development. During that time, he developed DivineofficeHub (a content management and web service-based data delivery platform) for Surgeworks Ltd, which is used as a data provider for several Surgeworks mobile applications built by Inchoo. After over 10 months of additional experience with web services using the Symfony2 framework, he started with Magento and then worked on extending Magento Core API features for its usage with the Mageboard iOS application. Currently, Darko is working as a Magento backend developer on different projects, solving Magento challenges every day.