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

Maximiliano Firtman12/07/10
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Android 2.3 Gingerbread: the browser

I’ve to admit: I had a high expectative for new APIs and feature support in Gingerbread. After the iOS 4.2 update, and the last Google IO announcements for Gingerbread, I was expecting more HTML5, accelerometer, full-screen webapp and SVG support. Is...

Mitch Pronschinske12/06/10
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At Last! Android 2.3 SDK Drops, Nexus S Revealed

I'm sure it has been an agonizing wait for Android developers, knowing that Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" was on the cusp of release for several weeks (once we saw that giant gingerbread man, we knew it was coming). Well agonize no longer! The...

James Sugrue12/06/10
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Where Will You Focus Your Mobile Development Efforts?

Fred Wilson posed an interesting question recently on his blog - where should mobile developers focus? While we all have our favorites in such debates, common sense has to emerge to make a proper business decision. The...

Mick Knutson12/06/10
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Spring-Android Issue integrating RestTemplate

I started working on some REST client Android development. I have spent the past 1-2 month reading books, and just looking around the internet for good resources, so I could feel I had a complete picture as to what my current skills could best be used to...

Luigi Viggiano12/02/10
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Android SDK 2.2_r2 sources

Yesterday I took back some source samples I was using to learn android, so I got a good chance to build android-sdk-2.2_r2-src.jar for anyone that may need it. I remember to readers that there is a script to generate those on this blog post, where I also...

Mitch Pronschinske12/01/10
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Ben Forta on the RIA Landscape

We commonly think of Adobe as 'the Photoshop' company or the de facto provider of designer/media creation tooling. Ben Forta is the head evangelist at Adobe...

Avi Yehuda12/01/10
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Android – Using SQLite DataBase

Android OS comes with SQLite Database already built-in. This article will explain how to store and draw data.Currently I am working with Android version 2.2.

James Sugrue12/01/10
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What Are Your Must-Have iPad Applications?

As an iPhone and iPad owner, I enjoy going to the App Store now and again to see what's popular at the moment. What other developers can do with apps is a great source of inspiration for my own work on app development. The iPad is a great example of this...

Den Delimarsky11/30/10
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Tip of the day: Processing touch input on Windows Phone 7

Let's think about the ways you used to control touch in your Silverlight-based Windows Phone 7 applications before. Chances are, you were trying to use the regular mouse capture method by handling mouse events - just like you did in any other Silverlight...

German Viscuso11/30/10
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Real Android apps leveraging db4o persistence engine (Part 2)

This the second delivery in a series of articles targeted at showing developers how db4o (an open source database that leverages today's object-oriented languages, systems, and mindset) is being used in several Android projects to avoid all the pitfalls and...

Jonathan Giles11/30/10
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Reviewing "Hello, Android"

Coming from a background as a Java developer with specific skills in UI development (Swing and JavaFX), but no technical knowledge of Android, I found this book at just the right level for me. Being...

Cedric Beust11/30/10
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Apple’s latest faux pas

I don’t really understand why the rejection of an Android magazine in the Apple store caused such a stir in the media. It’s not the first time that Apple is trying to control the content they expose on their servers and it certainly won’t be the...

Avi Yehuda11/30/10
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Android – Opening a new screen

Opening a new screen is fairly easy in android. This post will show you almost all you need to know about switching back and forth between screens in your Android application. Add all activities to manifest

Den Delimarsky11/30/10
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Develop Windows Phone 7 applications with Visual Basic

It was announced today by S. Somasegar (Senior Vice President, Developer Division at Microsoft) that the Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools was officially released to web. So if you are a Visual Basic...

Maximiliano Firtman11/29/10
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Safari on iPhone & iPad 4.2: Accelerometer, WebSockets & better HTML5 support

iOS 4.2 is a free update for every iPhone, iPod or iPad device available now. This new release provides some major changes on HTML5 and W3C future standards support, like WebSockets and Accelerometer support, print support, new JavaScript data-types and...