Den Delimarsky08/13/11
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Detecting a Windows Phone physical drop - Part 2 - Detecting the fall

As you already know the theory behind the falling process, it is time to work with the code that will be able to detect the fall itself on the phone.When the phone is free falling, the value of the composite (net) force is getting really close to zero - that...

Stephen Chin08/13/11
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Flash Android Touch Checker

This is the first in a 3 part blog series I am doing on Flash Mobile technology. With the release of Flash Builder 4.5, Flash and Flex now have support for building mobile applications that target Android and, with an update coming out on 6/20, also iPhone...

Alex Curylo08/13/11
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Embedding an HTTP Server in an App

Now here’s a topic we haven’t posted anything on for multiple years now: embedding an HTTP server in your app. More specifically, making it convenient to do so, with Java-style servlets in Obj-C using Mongoose Server

David Kelley08/13/11
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Tethering Windows Phone 7

One of the features people frequently complain about with phone 7 is the tethering or lack thereof support. But alas there are a number of hacks out there for doing it. If you have an LG phone you could try this (at your own discretion, you of course...

Matthew Turland08/12/11
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Android Emulator Can’t Find AVD

I ran into a small gotcha recently when creating a new Android project in Eclipse. The first time I went to run it on an AVD, I received an error in the console output: [2011-08-09 19:14:46 - Emulator] emulator: ERROR: unknown virtual device name:...

Den Delimarsky08/11/11
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Detecting a Windows Phone physical drop - Part 1 - Intro and theory

I saw this Android project recently and I thought that it would be nice to implement something like this for Windows Phone. It required some understanding of physics and general accelerometer data processing, but it is definitely an interesting project to...

Axel Rauschmayer08/11/11
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The positive side of Apple’s tight control of the iOS app store

It is obvious that there are downsides to Apple tightly controlling what applications are allowed on iPods, iPhone, and iPads. Among other things, there is an unfortunate gray area [1] and apps taken away from us [2] for legal reasons. Now Marco Arment...

Jorge Ramon08/11/11
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Writing a Sencha Touch MVC Application

In this article we will explore one of the approaches we can take to create a Sencha Touch application using the MVC pattern. I will base the tutorial on the Notes Application we created in the Writing a Sencha Touch Application series. Our goal is to...

Simone Chiaretta08/10/11
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Summer Courses on HTML5, Windows Phone7, ALM and Azure

This August, if you are on holiday and are not in snorkeling in a lagoon in a tropical island, or if you are work but not many things to do due to the summer period, you could spend half an hour (or half a day, or a full day) getting up to speed with the...

Juhani Lehtimaki08/10/11
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How APIs can support good design - a wish list to Google

In recent TechCrunch's Mobile First CrunchUps

David Amador08/09/11
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Hurry, You Only Have 16ms to Render Everything!

So I’ve been working on my new game and I’m doing some tweaks here and there on the engine. Mainly with the rendering section, trying to squeeze as much as possible, thus maintaining an acceptable framerate. It’s not like I’m doing a heavily...

Henry Lee08/09/11
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How to Debug Network Traffic in the Windows Phone 7 Emulator

There will come a time when you will want to troubleshoot network issues like WCF, browser, push notifications or any type of network traffic you can think of in the Windows Phone 7 emulator. And there are tools like Fiddler and Wireshark for this. In this...

Alex Curylo08/08/11
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Moai SDK: Cross-Platform Game Development

The good folk over at ManiacDev have a pointer to a new cross-platform SDK coming out — Moai “The mobile platform for pro game developers”:

Den Delimarsky08/08/11
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Building a simple Isolated Storage explorer system in a Windows Phone 7 application

Applications are using Isolated Storage for a multitude of reasons, including temporary storage (cached content) and permanent storage (reusable content and databases). Sometimes, it is hard to figure out what's where, especially when the developer operates...