HTML5 apps
http://www.quirksmode.org –
Right now nobody’s interested in a mobile solution that does not contain the words “iPhone” and “app” and that is not submitted to a closed environment where it competes with approximately 2,437 similar mobile solutions.
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In Mobile, Fragmentation is Forever. Deal With It.
http://techcrunch.com –
Mobile data is on fire. Despite a few false starts, we are now in the midst of a transformative “Open Mobile 3rd Wave”(remember WAP, and J2ME?). We are just in the early swell of the wave; the iPhone itself is not even three years old, and thanks to continued improvements we’re now seeing in smart phones, mobile OS platforms and 3G/4G networks, the raw ingredients are just getting better every month.
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Search by Gesturing
http://gesturesearch.googlelabs.com –
Do you find it hard to find a contact or locate an application from a list of hundreds of items on an Android phone? Or do you find it stressful to search for an item by typing in its title while on the go?
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Is multitouch broken on the Nexus One? Sort of…
http://androidandme.com –
It is time to play blog journalism. I provide the questions. You find the answers and then we share them with the community.
Why does the Nexus One suffer from poor multitouch performance?
Is it a hardware limitation or software issue and can it be fixed?
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Google: FREE Nexus One or Motorola Droid phones for all (eligible Android devs)!
http://www.intomobile.com –
When you have the kind of bankroll that Google carries around in their back pocket, it’s not hard to seed the entire free world with gratis smartphones like the Google Nexus One or Motorola Droid. Granted, Google isn’t about to hand out free high-end Google phones to the entire world, but they’re going to do eligible Android developers a “solid” with a program that will distribute either an N1 or Droid to devs that have proven their coding chops in the Android Market.
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Developers: webOS 1.4 SDK Now Available
http://www.intomobile.com –
webOS developers, get ready to get down and dirty with the webOS 1.4 SDK. Palm has released said SDK, and it is now available on the Developer Portal.
Inside the webOS SDK 1.4 (Build 419) you’ll find the following key updates...
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Tufte on Windows Phone 7 Series (WP7S) interface design
http://www.edwardtufte.com –
The WP7S screens look like they were designed for a PP slide presentation or for a video demo (read from a distance) and not for an handheld interface (read from 20 inches). One design lesson here is that most interface design work should be done at actual final scale...
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Mobile Web Application Best Practices now a Candidate Recommendation
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The Mobile Web Application Best Practices has been published as a W3C Candidate Recommendation:
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Netsize launches the Netsize Guide 2010: Mobile Renaissance
http://mobile-renaissance.com –
Fact-Packed Netsize Guide 2010 Debuts at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona; Includes Mobile Industry Mega-Trends, Expanded Country Data and Exclusive Interviews with 28 Senior Executives
9th Edition of the Netsize almanac provides unique and candid report on how the industry currently views market issues, business opportunities and mobile’s winners and losers
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AIR For Android, Adobe’s Plan To Deliver Apps To All Mobile Devices
http://techcrunch.com –
The bane of all mobile app developers is the need to rewrite the same app over and over again for different devices: the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm Pre, Nokia, Windows Mobile. Adobe is positioning its Flash platform (which includes the Flash player, AIR, developer tools, and media servers) as the write-once, deploy-anywhere solution for both the mobile Web and apps.
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Best Practices to make your Web application mobile
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The Mobile Web Application Best Practices was published as a W3C Candidate Recommendation yesterday. This means the specification is believed to be stable and that the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group now invites everyone to implement the Best Practices... and report on their implementations!
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Android DACP Remote Control
http://dacp.jsharkey.org –
The Digital Audio Control Protocol (DACP) was recently introduced by Apple, and is built into iTunes. DACP is used by the Remote app on the iPhone/iPod Touch to remote control iTunes.
DACP is similar to the well-known DAAP, using Bonjour MDNS to find libraries, & then HTTP requests with binary responses to transfer data. After a few days in front of packet dumps, I have most of DACP decoded.
With the protocol now reverse engineered, I wrote an Android client in about a week.
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iPhone Apps Need Low Starting Hurdles
http://www.useit.com –
Most mobile applications are used only intermittently, so they must be especially easy during initial use. In particular, upfront registration shouldn't be required before users experience an app's benefits.
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Develop an IMS SIP client on Android
https://labs.ericsson.com –
This is a series of 3 post samples how to develop for Android using ImsInnovation.com as the IMS SIP provider. The samples has been developed using Eclipse on Mac and Windows. The other platform that should work equally well but without testing on it is Linux.
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Dalvik Turbo offers huge boost in Android performance
http://www.engadget.com –
At the core of Anrdoid lies a little bundle of code known as the Dalvik virtual machine, a runtime environment for Java apps that's specifically optimized for hardware with limited memory and processor power -- you know, the kind of situation you find in your average smartphone.
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The iPhone obsession
http://www.quirksmode.org –
Since my attempts at capturing web developers’ hearts and minds by publishing fundamental research have failed miserably but my thirst for attention continues unabated, today I will once more shout at iPhone developers. That’s proven to work. More specifically, today I will shout at web developers who think that delicately inserting an iPhone up their ass is the same as mobile web development.
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3 Tips for Developing Mobile HTML5 Apps
http://blog.nextstop.com –
Yesterday Robert Scoble asked if I had any tips to share for other developers writing mobile HTML5 apps. After thinking about this a bit more, here are 3 things I wish I had known before I started working on nextstop's HTML5 App for the iPhone:
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Apple bans geo loco ads on iPhone, iPad*
http://www.theregister.co.uk –
(* - may exclude Apple ads) Apple has warned developers that they can't use location-based services such as the Core Location framework to deliver ads to iPhone, iPod touch, and - come March - iPad owners based on where they are.
Interestingly, this ban appears to run counter to Apple's own intents as hinted at in recent patent filings.
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Symbian Operating System, Now Open Source and Free
http://www.wired.com –
The source code for the ten-year old Symbian platform will be completely open source and available for free starting Thursday. The transition from proprietary code to open source is the largest in software history, claims the Symbian Foundation.
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Android & the Linux kernel community
http://www.kroah.com –
As the Android kernel code is now gone from the Linux kernel, as of the 2.6.33 kernel release, I'm starting to get a lot of questions about what happened, and what to do next with regards to Android. So here's my opinion on the whole matter... First off, let me say that I love the Android phone platform. Until last week, I used my developer G1, that I bought, every day. It worked wonderfully for me, and as a user, I was more than happy.
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