Mobile Zone | Android, Blackberry, iPhone, and Windows Phone 7

Mihai Fonoage06/25/11
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Battery Information using iPhone's Cocoa Touch

I have done something similar (although on a smaller scale) to this but for the Android platform. For the iPhone platform, the main class used is UIDevice. Below is the header used:

Michael Crump06/25/11
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Displaying PDF Files in Windows Phone 7 Mango

Several people have asked me if it is possible to display a PDF File in a Windows Phone 7 application after they saw me do in a Silverlight application. The answer is yes and it is a lot easier than you might expect. Let’s get started. Head over to...

Michael Chaize06/25/11
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Adaptive UI: Mobile vs Tablet

The screen size of a tablet device is much bigger than a smartphone one. It’s very close to a desktop one. If you plan to develop a mobile application and run it on smarphones and tablets, you need to adapt the UI (your views) for several reasons: user...

Henry Lee06/24/11
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How to handle 5.2 Performance and Resource Management issue on WP7

Recently, I came across the 5.2 Performance and Resource Management issue. This is a problem because you do not really get a whole lot of direction as to what is wrong with your application. So here are some basic tips to troubleshoot this issue very...

Den Delimarsky06/23/11
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Team SIMPLEX (Romania) - ImagineCup 2011 Finalists

The next featured ImagineCup team is SIMPLEX from Romania. These guys built a Kinect-based medical recovery assistant - a fairly unique system that allows patients with neurological, orthopedic or rheumatologic pathologies to easily recover by practicing...

Jeff Blankenburg06/23/11
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Mobile Games should Revisit the Past

I’m sure there’s a reason, but why is it that the most popular games on mobile devices are mindless efforts like bird-flinging? Don’t get me wrong…Angry Birds is addictive and fun, but it’s also generally mindless. Games like Plants vs....

Terrence Ryan06/23/11
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CFAIR Resources: Synching Data Between ColdFusion and AIR (for Mobile)

I talked earlier today as part of Adobe Developer Week on synching up data between ColdFusion and AIR (mobile) clients. I referenced a whole bunch of pages in my talk, and wanted to link them all out at once.

Per Ola Sæther06/23/11
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PinCodeKeeper WP7 app – Adding Localization Support

When creating an application it is often a good idea to add support for localization so it’s easy to update and add new languages to your application. For the PinCodeKepper app I only need to localize the text since all icons and graphics used are...

Stoimen Popov06/22/11
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Reading GPS Latitude and Longitude from Image and Video Files

The State of GPS Data from Mobile Devices Most of the mobile devices today support GPS geo tagging. In fact most of them come bundled with navigation software that uses GPS and therefore all the pictures and (maybe) videos can be geo tagged. But as...

Parvez Ansari06/22/11
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Understand Blend Layout and get more efficient using Keyboard shortcuts

As mentioned in my earlier post, I would be covering my experience of working in Expression Blend. In this article we start from the basic layout of Blend and how you can use it more efficiently by using Keyboard Shortcuts.

Brian Swartzfager06/21/11
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An Overview of buzztouch, A Mobile App CMS for Non-Programmers

The other day I stumbled on a Make Use Of article about buzztouch, a "iPhone, iPad, Android app builder and content management system." Since we're researching options for creating cross-platform mobile applications, and the article indictated...

Michael Chaize06/21/11
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Flash Builder 4.5.1 Rocks

The mysterious “June update” is out ! It’s Flash Builder 4.5.1. I’m a Flex developer and I AM SUPER EXCITED. For many years, I have been able to build first-class web applications and even desktop apps thanks to the AIR runtime. This morning I woke...

Jevgeni Tšaikin06/21/11
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Three properties that I use for almost every Windows Phone application

In this post I will tell you which three properties I use for almost every one of my Windows Phone applications. The first property is used by me to determine if the application is running in trial mode or full mode. Second property is provided to identify...

Alex Curylo06/20/11
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iOS Image Manipulation

Ah, remember the old days when it was actually a challenge to write image manipulation code? My, it certainly is about two orders of magnitude simpler these days: iOS Image Manipulation with UIGestureRecognizer: scale, move, rotate

Michael Chaize06/20/11
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AIR 2.7 and Enterprise Apps

Adobe just released AIR 2.7. I’d just like to walk through the new features of this runtime to highlight the most significant ones for Enterprise projects. Adobe AIR is used by many organizations for internal employees. It can bring some productivity...