A veteran mobile application developer vents his frustration with a list of 10 things he loves to hate about Android.

Integrate Android Calendar support into your Android applications.

Take advantage of the latest BlackBerry features by adding video recording capabilities to your applications.

Create an Android App Widget for the home screen which relies upon background processing by an Android Service.

Learn how leverage location based data using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 from C# applications and combine them with interactive maps.

Create an Android App Widget for the Home screen with dynamic user controls.

You can integrate Android applications into the Android platform seamlessly in new and interesting ways using App Widgets.

What do you do when a system or application performance problem just can't seem to be fixed?

Caching can greatly improve performance but it can also lull you into a false sense of security. In some cases it can even make the performance worse. If you haven't already, then now is the time to learn the issues and limitations of caching so that you can truly improve performance.

Performance is critical to today's successful applications and web sites. If you design with an awareness of the session state management challenges you can always change your strategies to match your performance needs.

The results you get out of any performance prediction exercise are bound to be wrong. The goal is to make them as least wrong as possible. Rob Bogue will help you understand how to avoid getting them too wrong.

Shane Conder will show us how different XML parsers affect performance with Android and the answers might surprise you. The article provides developers with data for choosing a particular XML parser and Android code that demonstrates all three parsers.

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