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From: Pratik Patel
Date: May 21, 2011 5:27AM

Jeni McDonald wrote:
"Does anyone have any information about best development practices when
creating a native mobile app?"

For Apple iOS devices, you will find Apple's Human Interface Design
guidelines to be extremely useful.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UserExperience/Concept
ual/MobileHIG/Introduction/Introduction.html

For Android, the accessibility API reference is useful.
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/accessibility.html

Window Phone 7 does not yet have accessibility guidelines or API's. However,
in general, using native tools and native controls for developing apps is a
good start.

Pratik