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Juhani Lehtimaki08/04/11
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Mutual Mobile's Android design guidelines (PDF)

Mutual Mobile inc. has released an updated version of their Android design guidelines document. This excellent and compact (44 pages) document can be valuable for anyone writing or designing software for Android.

Michael Crump08/04/11
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Adding Analytics to your Windows Phone 7 App with Preemptive Solutions

I have always been interested in learning which features of my application users are using as well as if they are using it. I have done this with other applications by using my own “home-grown” version of web services, etc. Since I have been working...

Dan Dyer08/03/11
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Amazon Appstore Disappoints

Amazon is taking a bit of flak at the moment over the way its Android Appstore operates. The catalyst for this was a blog posting by Australian app developer Shifty Jelly revealing that, contrary to popular belief (belief informed by Amazon’s own...

Matt Lacey08/03/11
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Getting version numbers and names right is hard

Rant alert! You have been warned! Managing platform & SDK version names and numbers can be hard. When you want a simplified, public name for these that can be used in marketing and promotion things can easily get confusing. Let's consider Windows...

James Sugrue08/03/11
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Google+ Beats Apple iCloud for Developers Attention

According to Appcelerator's latest developer survey, Google+ will have more impact on mobile growth than any other recent technology announcement, including Apple's iCloud. Throughout the report, it's clear that Google+ has caught the imagination of software...

Alex Curylo08/02/11
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Glossy Buttons in iOS

So it’s been a while since our last shiny buttons post — and why yes, yes it’s time for an update; here’s a piece of code that looks like our new goto library for the shiny thing: iPhone Glossy Buttons The two points I was after was the...

Sachin Khosla08/01/11
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Install Android Apps .APK Offline

So… You have got your Spanky New Android Phone. There are LOTS of them in the market to suite ALL Kinds of Budget.

Jevgeni Tšaikin08/01/11
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Windows Phone 7 Serialization: DataContract Serialization

In this post I am going to continue studying the ways how to serialize objects in Windows Phone 7 applications. This time I will explain DataContract Serialization using DataContractSerializer class. This type of serialization can also be applied to...

Juhani Lehtimaki07/31/11
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How to tell users that more content is available - ie. indicating horizontal swipe

Horizontal scrolling on desktop apps or web apps is something designers try to avoid. It often makes interface more complex to use. We have seen horizontal scrolling become more common place in touch interfaces. On Android we have a UI design pattern...

Alex Curylo07/30/11
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Complex Gesture Recognition in iOS

Have in mind doing something that requires gesture recognition, and found out in short order that’s a pretty tricky thing to do? Here’s an excellent article set for you: Complex Gesture Recognition in iOS – Part 1: The Research Complex Gesture...

Den Delimarsky07/29/11
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Using the IsolatedStorage Explorer tool (Windows Phone SDK 7.1)

The new Windows Phone SDK includes a tool that allows the developer to easily backup and restore application-specific isolated storage. This tool is located here: C:\Program Files [(x86) - for 64-bit systems]\Microsoft SDKs\Windows...

Sai Geetha M N07/29/11
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Custom ListView in Android Tutorial

Now, we shall look at creating a custom list view – a custom layout, a custom row layout and how we bind the custom data holder to these layouts. (please see the earlier article on simple list view for the fundamentals of list view). So, here again, we...

Jevgeni Tšaikin07/29/11
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InputScope for a TextBox in Windows Phone 7 apps

In this tutorial I will demonstrate new InputScope feature of Windows Phone 7 platform. This feature applied to a textbox could be very useful for all kinds of WP7 consumers, because it increases usability of your applications and decreases time required...

Mitch Pronschinske07/28/11
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Key Emails Could be the Evidence Oracle Needs to Kill Google's Android Defense

Google may be in hot water with their judge in the Android lawsuit pre-trial hearings. Judge William Alsup was recently informed of several emails written by Google engineers occurring between 2005 and 2010. One of these emails from 2005 by Andy Rubin,...

Mark Mooibroek07/28/11
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Why should I make Android games?

Aside from the hardware considerations, game developers have other incentives to go with the green robot. Spacetime Studios, creators of the popular Pocket Legends 3D MMORPG on both iOS and Android, has said that Android users are approximately three...