RubyMotion iOS Development
Essentials
Create apps that utilize iOS device capabilities without
learning Objective-C
Abhishek Nalwaya
Akshat Paul
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials
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Authors
Abhishek Nalwaya
Akshat Paul
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About the Authors
Abhishek Nalwaya is the author of the book, Rhomobile Beginner's Guide. He
is a Ruby enthusiast and loves to participate regularly at Ruby and Ruby on Rails
meetup groups. He works for Mckinsey and Company IT. He has spoken at many
conferences, meetups, and was the speaker at RubyConf India 2012 and RubyMotion
Conference 2013.
Akshat Paul is a programmer and is working as a lead developer at Mckinsey and
Company IT. He has extensive experience of mobile application development and
has delivered many enterprise and consumer applications.
In other avatars, Akshat frequently speaks and evangelizes at conferences and
meetup groups on various technologies; this way he plays his part in giving back
to the community. He has given talks at RubyConfIndia and #inspect-RubyMotion
Conference. He also has a strong belief in Agile methodologies for creating
world-class software, and is a Certied Scrum Master (CSM).
