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Hook Into Native Notifications From The Web

paddy2k — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:37:21 +0000

The W3C's Web Notifications spec gives mobile web developers another tool to make rich mobile web applications with non-modal notifications hooked into the mobile OS's native notification system. Motorola's David Storey explains how and has some demos of how it works right now with Firefox Mobile.

Facebook Mobile Web Apps Have Arrived.

paddy2k — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:23:45 +0000

Facebook have released a set of tools for mobile web developers to create Facebook powered web apps for iOS and Android users. Features include themed FB dialogues, sidebar integration & authentication on referral.

MoMo Dublin: We’re having a barbeque!

ruadhan — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:53:30 +0000

It’s that time of the year when our Dublin community of mobile industry professionals could do with a summer grub to meet and chat about … mobile stuff!

So we’re holding a Barbecue on Monday 13th June in a cool venue on the River Liffey.

Android Meet App Engine, App Engine Meet Android

ruadhan — Wed, 11 May 2011 08:57:18 +0000

With the latest release of Google Plugin for Eclipse, we're bringing together two great Google platforms, Android and App Engine, with a set of easy-to-use developer tools. Diving a bit deeper, here are some of the features offered in GPE 2.4...

Mobile jQuery Theme

ruadhan — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:59:12 +0000

Touch-Optimized Web Framework for Smartphones & Tablets. jQuery Mobile Theme is a powerful theme built on the jQuery Mobile platform. The theme adapts some of Drupal's base output to work with the highly themable designs built into the jQuery Mobile framework.

Use PhoneGap Media API & jQuery Mobile UI Framework

ruadhan — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:03:34 +0000

This Two-Minute Tutorial (TMT1 Part1) shows how to use the PhoneGap Media API to play an audio file, and use jQuery Mobile for a simple UI using buttons and updated text display. It also shows two ways to access the audio file: as a url, and locally (from the device) using the project's /assets folder

Apple handcuffs 'open' web apps on iPhone home screen

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:41:35 +0000

Apple's iOS mobile operating system runs web applications at significantly slower speeds when they're launched from the iPhone or iPad home screen as opposed to in the Apple Safari browser, and at the same time, the operating system hampers the performance of these apps in other ways, according to tests from multiple developers and The Register.

Beginning Android for iOS Developers; or, How to Build a Real-World Android App

ruadhan — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:24:43 +0000

You've just built an iOS app. You bit the bullet and downloaded the SDK, paid Apple its $99 developer fee, learned Cocoa and Objective-C, made some provisioning profiles, and out came an App that Apple now holds for a week or so with many others somewhere in Cupertino before being released into the Conradian jungle that is the App Store. You wonder...is this it?

Wrap-up: webOS Developer Conference at Mobile World Congress

ruadhan — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:50:57 +0000

After announcing the next exciting chapter of webOS at February 9’s Think Beyond event, we took our show on-the-road, hosting a webOS App Developer Conference at Mobile World Congress. The excitement and buzz around webOS and upcoming devices like the HP TouchPad were incredible. We had an awesome time meeting with everyone and hope everyone there had a blast.

Fragments For All

ruadhan — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:51:05 +0000

A few weeks ago, Dianne Hackborn wrote about the new Fragments API, a mechanism that makes it easier for applications to scale across a variety of screen sizes.