About the Author
Belén Cruz Zapata received her Engineer's degree in Computer Science from the
University of Murcia in Spain, specializing in software technologies and intelligent
and knowledge technologies. She earned an M.Sc in Computer Science and is
now working in her Ph.D on the Software Engineering Research Group from the
University of Murcia.
Belén is based in Spain, although in the eld of her Ph.D she is now collaborating with
the Université Mohammed V-Soussi, in Rabat, as beneciary of an Erasmus Mundus
program. Her research is focused on the mobile world and cloud computing.
She has a special interest in the development of mobile applications and new
technologies. In the past few years, she has worked as a mobile developer for
several platforms such as Android, iOS , and the Web.
She maintains a blog at
http://www.belencruz.com and you can follow her on
Twitter: @belen_cz.
I would like to thank Packt Publishing for offering me the opportunity
to write this book. I would particularly like to thank Reshma Raman,
Meeta Rajani, and Amey Sawant for their valuable help.
I would also like to thank my mentors during the last months,
Miguel R. and P. Salinas; my friends, especially Ana, Nerea, and the
yupi group, for cheering me up; my family, especially my parents
and brother, for supporting me; and nally my signicant other for
everything and more.
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