Hello Android!
By Gabor Csomak
The Android platform is grossing amazingly fast. Over 20 million devices activated per month, the total application downloads from the Android Market is nearing 15 billion, so despite the platforms negatives (fragmentation, memory handling, …) it sure is a platform worth developing to. We have gathered a collection of great beginner tutorials to get you help started with Android development.
Android
by Shiva Kumar
This documentation explores the concepts behind Android, the framework for constructing an application, the tools for developing android application and real time examples. Android is a Linux-based operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. It is developed by the Open Handset Alliance led by Google. The Android Software Development Kit (Android SDK) provides all necessary tools to develop Android applications. This includes a compiler, debugger and a device emulator, as well as its own virtual machine to run Android programs.
How to develop android applications using Eclipse
by Shiva Kumar
This documentat explores the concepts of Android Development Tools, Dalvik Virtual machine, Android manifest file and Date & Time picker example. Android Development Tools (ADT) to develop android applications using Eclipse. ADT is provided by Google. ADT includes all fundamental functionalities to create, develop, compile, debug and deploy andriod applications from the Eclipse IDE. ADT supports other IDE’s, e.g. IntellJ, Motorola etc. ADT also provides an Android device emulator. This emulator lets you develop and test Android applications without using a physical device.
Step By Step Learn Mobile Application Development Android
by Rakesh Kumar Jha
To learn mobile technologies it will give huge benefits to life, positive ROI on their learning, mobile learning is a transformative opportunity.. The tree of digital convergence has borne fruit, and it is only now that we are now picking the low-hanging, mobile learning being one of them.Today is mobile eras basically as more and more people bring Mobile devices into their daily lives that connect them to the worldwide network in its countless forms. Every aspect of life inside mobile, education, entertainment, game, banking etc, due to in part to changes in current situation, competition, and job opportunity and global education and competition market structures.
PayGol Android SDK
by Ali Chousein
Making payments online is standard. Making paybents on mobile devices is becoming prevalent. Making payments with just one click, without any credit cards or bank accounts involved and without any risk of losing your personal data will be the norm of tomorrow. PayGol payment services is striving to develop payment technologies for meeting tomorrow’s pament’s norms.
Thoughts on the “democratization of apps” and the future of mobile apps
by Roy Smith, VP Marketing, appMobi
This month the iPhone juggernaut celebrated its fifth birthday and there seems to be no sign of a slowdown to smartphones overtaking the mobile market. Birthdays and anniversaries are always a good time to reflect on the past and the future so let’s take stock of the present and future of mobile apps.
Writing cross platform mobile application
by appMobi
Writing mobile applications for multiple platforms is a real issue in these days of massive fragmentation. Suppose you have been asked to create a mobile application that customers could discover in an application store such as the Android Market or the Apple iOS App store, but also reach through the mobile Web. That sounds like several jobs at first. Perhaps you might think that this project will require at least one team for each native application platform, and then another one for the mobile website. Thanks to hybrid mobile applications, that may no longer be the case.
The Future of Mobile Applications
by appMobi
HTML5 is rapidly becoming the predominant mobile application development technology. It solves the problems of market fragmentation that are a hallmark of the mobile marketplace’s early stages of development. In the future, HTML5 calls will be available to websites to allow them to act as native applications themselves and install from Web-based application stores. Ultimately, there is a very good chance that the mobile applications of the future will be written purely using Web technology.
Starting a Mobile HTML5 Game
by appMobi
The purpose of this document is to give developers who have never created an HTML5 game some tips on how to get started. It includes some sample code as well as a description of “best practices” on making a game on a mobile device that runs using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript only. This tutorial assumes that the reader has a working knowledge of JavaScript and HTML5. Please find the sample code for this guide.
Interview with Sam Abadir from appMobi
Our editorial team caught up with Sam Abadir, the founder, CTO and chairman of appMobi, for an email interview.
HTML5 and Mobile Development Framework
by Matthew Trachtenberg
One of the most common questions we get it island apps has to do with what are the differences between developing HTML 5 application using tools such as Sencha Architect, Sencha touch 2.0 and PhoneGap 1.9 in and native mobile native application. There are number of factors to consider when looking at possibly using HTML 5 to build your mobile App.
Top things to like about the upcoming Microsoft Surface line of Tablets
by Matthew Trachtenberg
Let me start this article by saying I am an Apple Fan, I own and use daily a Macbook Pro, iPad 3 and a iPhone 4s, I also use a very powerful windows box for some tasks. Until Microsoft made this announcement I would have laughed if anyone said a Microsoft could challenge Apple in the Tablet market… That was yesterday…Things have changed…
Planning and Executing an Enterprise Mobile Strategy
by Matthew Trachtenberg
Enterprise software is in a state of rapid change right now, many fortune 500 companies are in the midst of implementing some kind of SOA messaging based architecture to connect their enterprise wide applications together via a loosely coupled messaging driven architecture. Many are also implementing Complex event processing and analysis applications like Oracle Coherent or TIBCO Business Events to enable them to do very complex things such as watch for fraud within millions of transactions.
Island Apps Strategy
by Shaun Haenes
Island Apps Inc’s has a unique company structure that is set up to generate high quality software on all of the platforms, in any language and do it at the most competitive cost.
Interview with Matthew Trachtenberg from Island Apps
Matt is a co-founder and CTO in Island Apps, and he will be telling us about programming, bussiness and other stuff!
Mobile multi-platform Development
by Julio Bailon
Maximizing your audience requires adopting multiple platforms for your development. There is no advantages starting with iOS or Android but there some premises you have to keep in mind in order to maintain a uniform development and avoid wasting time in trivial tasks like renaming files.
Adobe Digital Publishing Suite: Design and turn your publication into exciting interactive tablet using Adobe® InDesign®
by Kirtan Thaker
Whether you are an individual designer or a Global corporation, Abode has come out with a perfect tablet publishing solution which can transform your publications into interactive issue for tablet devices. Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite is a complete solution that lets individual designers, traditional media publishers, ad agencies, and companies of all sizes create, distribute, monetize, and optimize engaging content and publications for tablet devices. It is a hosted solution with one platform and is available in 3 editions.
DataSnap Mobile iOS Clients
by Bob Swart
Delphi XE2 Enterprise introduces a feature called Mobile Connectors to allow developers to make DataSnap clients for mobile devices. Initially, the Mobile Connectors were available for Windows Mobile Phone (C# Silverlight), Android (Java), Blackberry (Java), and iOS 4.2 (Objective/C), but Update #4 added iOS 4.2 and 5.0 targets using FreePascal as well. These DataSnap Mobile Connectors will be used in this article, to demonstrate how to make both DataSnap Servers and DataSnap iOS Clients using Delphi XE2.
Hybrid – Applications for Mobile
by Pavan Pareta
In this article we will learn how to develop a hybrid application for muliple mobile platforms, such a Symbian, Windows Phone7, iOS and BlackBarry etc. I have targeted Nokia Windows Phone7 OS for developing hybrid application. What is a hybrid application? Basically, it is a synergy of HTML5, Javascript and CSS3 as well as Native API for crossplatform.
Mobile Device Detectionwith 51 degrees.mobi Foundation
by Pekka Ollikainen
This article approaches cross-platform mobile web design from server-side perspective by demonstrating how to start application design from device detection by using 51Degrees.mobi ASP.NET extension. 51Degrees is open source alternative to WURFL(Wireless Universal Resource FiLe) and DeviceAtlas device detection databases and it can be used at PHP environment as well. 51 degrees.mobi Foundation library is ASP.NET module or Browser Capabilities Provider usable both on Web Forms and MVC application. This tutorial I will demonstrates how to add 51 degrees. mobi Foundation library to ASP.NET web project. At the end of the article you will find some pseudo code to demonstrate how you could actually start you web design from device end perspective.
Interview with Oren Levy, co-founder and CTO at ZooZ
Find out about billing solutiond offered by ZooZ!
Book review: PhoneGap begginer’s Guide review
by Ali Raza
Want to learn how to build cross-platform mobile application with the PhoneGap open source development framework? Check out our book review for this beginner’s guide!
Interview with Lukasz Sosna, an author of the book xFacebok
by Aleksander Mokrecki
Find out more about this publication, which can help you create your own web application, similar to Facebook.

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