Design & Development
iPhone Programming Fundamentals – Outlets and Actions
July 28, 2009, by weimenglee
An understanding of outlets and actions is one of the first things you will need for iPhone programming. For someone coming from the .NET background, this is a concept that requires some time to get used to - the concepts are similar, but it is a different way of doing things. And so, in this article, I am going to show you what outlets and actions are. At the end of this article, you will have a solid understanding of how to create outlets and actions, and be on your way to creating great iPhone apps... Read More
Understanding User Interface in Android – Part 1: Layouts
July 1, 2009, by weimenglee
So far in my previous few articles on Android I have focused on showing you how to get things done in Android without really spending too much time discussing the visual aspect of Android application development - User Interface design. In this article, and the next, I will walk you through the various elements that make up the UI of an Android application. In this first part of the article, I will discuss the various layouts available in Android to position the various widgets on your screen... Read More
User-Agent Switcher for Safari 4
June 30, 2009, by atrasatti
The User Agent Switcher plug-in for Firefox has been a GREAT add-on and we all love it. 1 year and 27 weeks ago Ronan wrote a really simple, but useful configuration file for it that is available here on mobiForge (if you use Firefox it's a MUST: [url=http://www.mobiforge.com/developing/blog/user-agent-switcher-config-file]User Agent Switcher config file[/url])... Read More
Mobile Web App Development with ASP.NET and HAWHAW
June 23, 2009, by H2f
Development of mobile applications is often highly dependent on the target platform. If plain old XHTML markup is written from scratch then it is rather easy to switch between platform and technologies. But if the development process has been accelerated and made comfortable by the use of tools and middleware, it soon becomes difficult or impossible to switch environments e.g. from a LAMP environment to ASP.NET or vice versa... Read More
Location, Location, Location
June 7, 2009, by jonarne
Location based services (LBS) has been a buzz word and a hype since birth of mobile services. I'm not saying that it is a failure!... Read More