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Brian Swartzfager04/12/11
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Creating Screen Layouts in Android Using XML

In my last post, I alluded to the fact that you can lay out your visual elements and controls on your Android application screens (your Activity objects) using XML. In this post, I'm going to give you a peek at what that XML looks like. Here's an example...

David Kelley04/12/11
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MVVM Made Easy

We did a cool video pod cast on MVVM Made Easy. Had Erik Mork, Fabio Matsui and Jeremiah Morrill and we talked about MVVM and MVVM made easy and did a demo showing how to build an MVVM using this simple approach for an application in Silverlight.check it...

Brian Swartzfager04/11/11
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Android Application Concepts: The Activity

Android applications can be constructed from four different types of components: activities, services, broadcast receivers, and content providers. Of the four, the only one that you must use at least one of in every application (and the only one that I've...

Chris Callendar04/11/11
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Flex 4 Spark Resizable Controls

Please go here for Flex 3 Resizable Containers.

Peter ___04/11/11
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Viewing hprof From Android With JVisualVM

Add an additional permission to your app <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE” /> to your manifestCreate hprof protected void onDestroy() {super.onDestroy();try {Debug.dumpHprofData(“/sdcard/data.hprof”);}...

Den Delimarsky04/11/11
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Headed to MIX11 - Stay up-to-date

Thanks to Microsoft's help I am headed to MIX2011 as a Microsoft Student Insider. I will be participating in some press events and will be around the Coding4Fun (Channel 9 booth). This conference is a great networking opportunity and I will also try to show...

David Kelley04/10/11
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The Difference Between Silverlight and Silverlight Based Phone 7 Apps

The past week I was asked a couple times about the difference between Silverlight and Silverlight for phone 7. Really? Other then a few minor technical differences in the most current version of Silverlight vs a bit more limited version in phone 7. The...

Alessandro Giorgetti04/09/11
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Silverlight, M-V-VM ... and IoC - part 4

Let’s move on to the next step and remove all the code on the view that is directly related to the commands the user can give through buttons. To do so we use a new feature of Silverlight 4: Commanding. Since the release of Silverlight 2 the runtime...

Per Ola Sæther04/08/11
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Using Model-View-Presenter (MVP) pattern in Windows Phone 7 projects

I am very fond of using patterns when developing and I have seen the importance of patterns in several projects. When it comes to Windows Phone 7 development I guess the most popular pattern to use is the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. I have...

David Kelley04/08/11
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Dependency Properties Made Easy

Ok, so I found that for some reason I thought I did a post on this before and I couldn't find it. So I thought I would make a new post as simple as possible. Here is a simple dp:

John Blanco04/07/11
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Admitting Your Mistakes: An iPhone Failure Story

The software industry is like no other. As members, we accept some pretty nice salaries, but not without sacrifice. We work hard hours in front of a machine with very little human interaction (even if some of us prefer that). We routinely work extra hours...

Matt Lacey04/07/11
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Mobile App Feedback #6

Here's the feedback I recently gave to the creator of an app.

Jeff Blankenburg04/07/11
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What I Learned In WP7 – Issue 7

It seems there might be a correlation between YouTube and your app downloads. Last week, I created a walkthrough video of each of my applications, and posted them to YouTube. Since then, I’ve seen a small spike in downloads and traffic to my apps. ...

Brian Swartzfager04/06/11
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Developing Native Android Applications: Not as Hard As You Might Think

Two months ago, my boss asked me to try and build a native Android application based on the mobile website I had created for the university's annual Maryland Day festival.

Senthil Kumar04/06/11
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New IDE for Mobile App Developers ( Windows Mobile , Android , Apple iOS )

Just found this interesting video when searching through IDE’s in googleHello World Hello Meme IDE from Meme Apps on Vimeo. Joe Gregory has been working on a new IDE for Windows Mobile , Android and Apple IOS . The IDE is named as “MEME IDE”...