Shai Almog

Create an Uber Clone in 7 Days Shai Almog

Do you want to build a location based mobile application?
Do you read technical books and feel that they left some parts out?
Do you want to get into mobile programming with "real world" examples? If you answered yes to one of these questions this book might be for you! The goal of this book is to teach via familiarity. Since the Uber application is well designed and familiar we chose it as the target but the book isn't meant as a "copy Uber" cookbook. Many applications are built around ideas similar to Uber and utilize designs inspired by Uber. It's our assumption that you can learn a lot by understanding how to build something "like" Uber. We break down a real world application from client to the server. This fills in all the pieces, that typical tech books skim over.


This book covers:


iOS/Android development with Codename One
Spring Boot server development on top of MySQL
WebSockets, WebServices and push notification as the communication layer
Creating a sublime UI to match professional designs
Map based user interface
User authorization via SMS/Social Networks
Best practices, security and pitfalls of mobile development


The book requires basic knowledge of Java but doesn't require prior knowledge of Codename One, Spring Boot or MySQL.


Notice that this book is "code heavy," it contains many listings as it implements a full stack mobile app.
Uber (TM) is a trademark of Uber Technologies Inc.


This work is intended strictly for educational purposes. We don't condone the misuse of Uber IP!


About the Author:


Shai's professional software development career started more than 25 years ago. He worked for/with countless companies including Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Samsung, Nokia as well as banks, insurance companies etc.


Shai was a team member on the original Wireless Toolkit from Sun Microsystems. It was the most popular cross platform mobile development tool at the time, and revolutionized the field. Together with Chen Fishbein they created LWUIT which became the most successful mobile open source project from Sun Microsystems and the basis for Codename One.


Shai is a Java One rockstar who shared the stage with the likes of James Gosling. As a highly rated speaker he was featured in multiple conferences such as JavaZone, codemotion, dev days etc.
He blogs at Codename One as well as Hackernoon, JavaCodeGeeks and dzone (MVB).