GETTING STARTED

This book contains many code examples. For the most part, each example is contained within its own folder, and you will be instructed to create these folders when needed. You do, however, need to decide on a place to keep all the sample code. The best thing to do is to create a Projects folder inside your home folder and store everything there. Of course, you are free to use a different folder structure if it suits you better.

All the code in this book is available for download. If you expand the downloadable zip file for each chapter into your Projects folder, you will end up with the full set of code examples in one easy-to-access location.

For the purposes of learning the material in this book, you may find it helpful to create some of the code by hand. The examples assume that you are doing everything manually, even if you are just running the downloadable code. The precise manual steps are explained so that you can follow along and understand not just the code but also how to put the mobile apps and cloud systems together end-to-end.