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My Workflow v2: Mobile, DevTools & LiveReload

Since I’m at Mobilism 2013 I think it’s worth sharing my recent mobile (mainly CSS) workflow. It’s not rocket science, but it’s a nice follow on from...

0 replies - 626 views - 05/20/13 by Remy Sharp in Articles

Would You Use PhoneGap Again?

I was invited to the Mobile Forum Stuttgart and speak about Apache Cordova/Phonegap (great conference, check it out next year!). There is a lot...

0 replies - 123 views - 05/20/13 by Christian Grobmeier in Articles

Using Viewbox for Automatic Control Scaling in Windows Phone

Presenting content of varied size can often be tricky. For example, displaying names of metro stations with fixed font size, and it always is a fixed font...

0 replies - 492 views - 05/19/13 by Toni Petrina in Articles

Objective-C Literals

So you’ve no doubt taken a peek at NDA’d stuff and got the impression there’s some changes to Objective-C coming down the pike, and perhaps you noticed...

0 replies - 568 views - 05/16/13 by Alex Curylo in Articles

ViewModel driven multi-state animations using DataTriggers and Blend on Windows Phone

Long long time ago I wrote how to drive animations from your ViewModel using DataStateBehavior, and I explicitly stated this was the only way to do it, since...

0 replies - 284 views - 05/14/13 by Joost Van Schaik in Articles

Facebook OAUTH Solutions - Adding Backend to Nokia S40 Apps

Doing Facbook OAuth on Nokia S40 and J2ME devices is biggest challenge while creating the social apps for this platform becuase of unavailibility of the...

0 replies - 226 views - 05/14/13 by Mandeep Bajar in Articles

Using the Windows Phone Custom Contact Store

In previous versions of Windows Phone, you could always query the contact store to retrieve contact or calendar items. During that time I always wondered why I...

0 replies - 462 views - 05/12/13 by Christian Helle in Articles

A Deep Dive Into Mobile Malware

Emil Ong works as an engineer for the security team at Lookout and provides firsthand information on mobile malware and ways to protect yourself from...

0 replies - 1433 views - 05/09/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

DIY NFC with Android and Arduino

Joe Desbonnet demonstrates a "Poor Man's NFC" proof-of-concept with an Arduino and an Android phone: The coolest part? This uses the phone's...

0 replies - 1412 views - 05/09/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Multiple ad networks with one SDK on Android

As an Android developer you know that including ads in your apps is one of the major ways of app monetization on the Play Store (when combined with in-app...

0 replies - 2141 views - 05/05/13 by German Viscuso in Articles

Using the Progress event in PhoneGap file transfers

Earlier today I was happy to hear that PhoneGap 2.7 was released. While perusing the changelist, I thought I read that progress events for file transfers...

0 replies - 1571 views - 05/03/13 by Raymond Camden in Articles

Responsive != Mobile: Ditching Assumptions

The surge in mobile devices really changed the web. What used to be a theoretic ideal (one site to rule them all) suddenly became a reality. Almost overnight...

0 replies - 4923 views - 05/03/13 by Niels Matthijs in Articles

Pernicious Xcode Bug, Still There a Year Later

When the ability to simulate locations was added, I thought ‘wow, this is a perfect example of what‘s great about Apple: even though the simulator is...

1 replies - 98 views - 05/03/13 by Rob Williams in Articles

Injection for Xcode

Now here’s something we missed back earlier this year: Injection for Xcode! Using Injection it is possible to make a change to the implementation of an...

0 replies - 250 views - 05/03/13 by Alex Curylo in Articles

Android DevBytes: Window Zoom Transitions

Learn how to easily create a thumbnail zoom transition when launching a new activity. Code Zip http://developer.android.com/shareabl...

0 replies - 3209 views - 05/03/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles