Denizens of GameDev! I somehow ended up with an interview to work as a mobile engineer for a large games company.

Slight issue: I know next to nothing about the specifics of mobile development.

That being said, this job would be a very large and very important step for me, so I'm going to spend every free moment until the interview attempting to become an expert in the subject matter - or at least rise above neophyte.

I've already done various searches and have a pile of material on the subject(s), but I'm looking for more. If you are in a helpful mood, please tell me what you consider the most important areas of study for mobile development (IE networking topics, tools/software used, etc) and if you happen to know of some particularly good references/information sources on them, throw me a name and a link and I'll hunt them down.

I'm aware it's a large subject, but whatever additional focus you can lend me would be fantastic. Thanks for any help!

I'm of the opinion that it is generally not possible to "cram" for interviews.

I'd tend to agree, yet when faced with an opportunity like this I can't help but scramble to find some way to improve my chances, even if the way is of questionable value. It would feel wrong to just sit back and accept whatever happens. Part of the difficulty does come from having no real clue exactly what they'll have me doing. It's client systems (things like community software - think Steam) instead of actual games, I'm pretty sure.

Either way, I am a decent programmer (or at least, so I tell myself) and won't be going into this completely blind to the skills and knowledge required. I was just hoping to brush up on some of the more pertinent topics.