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

James Sugrue11/10/10
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Have Mobile Apps Made You Rich?

I've often wondered if developers can make a decent living creating mobile applications. Reading the Android Developers Income Report post, it's clear that it's difficult to make thousands, but not impossible to have a...

Den Delimarsky11/09/10
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Creating the slider toggle control for Windows Phone 7 - external state change

In my last article I showed how to create a slider toggle control on your own (also known as ToggleSwitch) but it lacked one major feature - external property changes. Well, in fact you are able to change the IsOn property from an external call, but it won't...

Per Ola Sæther11/09/10
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Getting Started with Android development using Eclipse

Finally I found time to start looking at Android development. In the past I have been developing mobile applications on Java ME, Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7, now it’s time to have a look at the Android platform. In this post I will describe what...

Den Delimarsky11/09/10
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Creating the slider toggle control for Windows Phone 7

Today Windows Phone 7 was officially released on the US market and it seems like a lot of people are enjoying it. One unique part about the operating system this device runs on is the UI - Metro. Despite the fact that most of the controls are bundled by...

Mitch Pronschinske11/08/10
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Windows Phone 7 Comes Home

After an early release in the UK, Europe, and beyond; Microsoft brings the Windows Phone 7 platform back home to the US with the first handsets now available for purchase. The first three models available today include the HTC HD7 for T-Mobile, HTC Surround...

Vasanth Dharmaraj11/08/10
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Android App Spotlight: Tasker

It does not matter if there are only 100,000 apps in the Android Market or 300,000 in the Apple App Store. There are some great Android apps out there. Some apps do stuff only iPhone apps can dream off. The kidding aside, I am planning to write a series...

Rob Williams11/08/10
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Delegates vs. DI

A week or two ago, I was doing some location-based programming on the iPhone. It‘s, as you might suspect, asynchronous. Delegates solve this problem, because you tell the LocationManager, go find me a location, and when you have, here‘s a reference to...

Den Delimarsky11/08/10
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Going to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace - getting the app out there

So let's say you have a Windows Phone 7 application that you think is ready to. You tested it multiple times, you tried to break it, you hired some guys to test it and you sent it to your friend to test it on an actual device. It works and now it is the time...

Den Delimarsky11/04/10
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Delivering the message. Using MessageBox in Windows Phone 7.

So how many times did you use a message box when you were developing for a desktop platform? The answer is probably - quite frequently. A message box is a very non-invasive way to tell the user that something needs his attention and maybe ask for a choice of...

Vasanth Dharmaraj11/03/10
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Droid Save: My first Android app

I like my Android phone a lot. I almost always use it to read tweets, email and follow blogs on Google Reader. As good as the 4 inch Super AMOLED screen is, sometimes I like to read longer articles on my PC. I usually send an email to myself using the...

Den Delimarsky11/03/10
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Input box? On Windows Phone 7? Indeed.

If you are a seasoned Windows developer, you probably are familiar with the concept of an input box - basically, a modal windows that pops up to prompt the user to enter a single value that is later on returned to the application. In .NET, this concept was...

Mitch Pronschinske11/02/10
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HTML5 Talks and Listens

Developers and designers don't always realize the broad scope of possibilities for the HTML5 spec outside of features like Canvas and the video tag. A few months back, we saw another example of HTML5's flexibility when the W3C formed the HTML Speech...

Den Delimarsky11/02/10
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Custom image cropping in Windows Phone 7 - Part 1 of 2

If you've tried using the default PhotoChooserTask to crop some images, you might've noticed already that it doesn't really work as expected - the application never receives the cropped stream. My solution to this? My own implementation of the cropping...

Zero Lines Of Code11/02/10
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Nokia and Symbian : Business and Software : Lessons To Be Learnt

Mitch Pronschinske11/01/10
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Microsoft Shifts Silverlight Focus

Bob Muglia, Microsoft's president of tooling and servers, has confirmed recent rumors that Microsoft is changing the mission of Silverlight as a platform to meet the needs of changing markets. Muglia says that Microsoft is now aiming Silverlight at...