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

James Sugrue06/17/11
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Oracle v Google: Looking Expensive for Google, Trial To Kick Off in November

It looks like Oracle are really going after Google in their lawsuit over Android's use of Java, seeking damages "in the billions of dollars". Barring any settlements between the two, the trial is expected to begin in November. A disclosure was...

Maximiliano Firtman06/16/11
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Mobile Web & HTML5 performance optimization

Velocity is an excellent annual conference organized by O’Reilly about web performance (WPO) and web operations. This was my second Velocity as speaker and I’m really surprised how bigger the show is this year. I did a workshop about mobile web &...

Parvez Ansari06/16/11
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Windows Phone 7 Design Guidelines–Cheat Sheet

Cheryl Simmons has posted a concise list of Windows Phone 7 Design Guidelines, which I am sure will be helpful to all Windows Phone Developers. I am quoting some of the points from the original post:

David Amador06/15/11
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Loading Images into OpenGL in iPhone

So you can’t make a game without images, right? Well, actually you can but that’s another story. But how can you load a jpg or a png and use then on OpenGLES? First let’s make a simple class Texture2D

Ben Forta06/15/11
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AIR 2.7 Available

The AIR team has just announced the availability of AIR 2.7. Improvements include AIR apps for iOS rendering up to 4x faster in CPU mode, app installation on SD cards for Android devices, acoustic echo cancellation, and more.

Cedric Beust06/15/11
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Unlocked iPhones: big deal or no deal?

Paul Thurrott wrote a quick review of Mac OS X “Lion”: PROS: Finally picks up much needed features from other mobile platforms CONS: Best features were literally copied from other mobile platforms RATING: Three out of five stars

Den Delimarsky06/14/11
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Real email accounts inside the Windows Phone emulator

In the previous version of the Windows Phone SDK one of the main problems was the fact that the email capabilities were directly removed from the OS, so the EmailComposeTask was useless without a physical device. With Mango, the situation changed and although...

Alex Curylo06/14/11
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App Design Process

Here’s an interesting read on the process of designing an app: The Process of Visually Actualizing an iPhone App (But Losing the Race)Since I had a bunch of design work made for an app that did not reach App Store in time, I thought: Why not share this in...

Michael Crump06/14/11
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The Busy Developers Guide to Mango.

You’re a busy developer and you have read article after article of “What’s new in WP7 Mango” but you are only interested in knowing “What does this mean for me as a developer ?”. This is where I step in and give you the “need to know” with a...

Ben Forta06/14/11
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Compiling SWFs For iOS

Fellow Adobe evangelist Tom Krcha has been working with partners to port some very big Flash projects to iOS. And based on these experiences, he has posted a tip on how to compile big projects with lots of SWFs while not running afoul of iOS license...

Cedric Beust06/14/11
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Flashback

About a year ago, Apple announced that its new operating system would not support Flash. This decision was obviously very controversial and quickly polarized the technology field. It still does today. In the link above, Steve Jobs explains that Flash 1) is...

Jorge Ramon06/14/11
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Writing a Sencha Touch Application, Part 2

In the first part of this Sencha Touch tutorial we started building an app that allows its user to take notes and store them on the device. Having created the foundation of the application we are in the process of building the Notes List view, which at...

Den Delimarsky06/13/11
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ShellToast on Windows Phone - when HTTP push is just too much

For those who want to have in-app alerts it is a major problem to have to invoke the HTTP push channel when all that is needed is simply alert the user about an oncoming event or action inside the application itself and not outside of it.Don't get too excited...

Maximiliano Firtman06/13/11
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HTML5 and new features in Safari for iOS 5 beta 1

As you may already known, iOS 5 beta 1 was released for registered developers and there was a presentation showing some of the new features in Safari. I’ve made the usual investigation to see what’s new and I find a way to show you what’s new in...

Per Ola Sæther06/13/11
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PinCodeKeeper WP7 app – Extending the Pin code card Custom Control with touch, animation and numeric keyboard

In this article I will create the “Add New” Pin code screen for my PinCodeKeeper WP7 app and I need to extend the earlier created Pin code card Custom Control. The Pin code card custom control displays a grid with coloured cells and numbers. When adding a...