Nine New-ish jQuery Features Worth Trying
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 10-Nov-10
These nine recent jQuery features cover everything from mobile development to testing to HTML 5.
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BlackBerry Development Gets More Open, Accessible and Lucrative
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 28-Sep-10
A series of new enhancements to the BlackBerry platform enable developers to build better mobile apps more quickly, and to earn more money from them.
Build Your First PHP for Android Application
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 20-Sep-10
Getting started with PHP for Android and the Scripting Layer for Android is easy with this step-by-step guide, complete with a demo application.
Top 10 Android 2.2 Features Developers Can't Wait to Use
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 24-May-10
Android 2.2 (Froyo) provides developers with some much-anticipated features for a minor SDK release. Here are the top ten features developers cannot wait to get their hands on.
Discover how to start developing for the Android platform with this extensive guide, which provides a reference to the Android platform as well as a look at developing your first Android application. You'll explore the top 10 features for developers as well as learn design and development tips that go beyond the phone and target tablet development as well.
Handling Lengthy Operations with Android App Widgets
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 30-Oct-09
Create an Android App Widget for the home screen which relies upon background processing by an Android Service.
Performance Improvement: Bigger and Better
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 03-Aug-09
What do you do when a system or application performance problem just can't seem to be fixed?
Performance Improvements: Caching
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 27-Jul-09
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 Improvement: Session State
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 20-Jul-09
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.
Android XML Parser Performance
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 11-Jun-09
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.
Exploring Net60
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 27-Aug-08
Have you ever dreamt about porting your managed Windows Mobile application to Symbian OS? Or, maybe you wanted to develop a new one but were uncertain whether you need to learn a new paradigms and languages? Well, with Net60 from Red Five Labs, you may be relieved; you can continue your development in your favorite languages!
Handling Lengthy Operations in Google's Android
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 30-Jul-08
To work on mobile devices, Google's Android must adhere to similar design standards that will produce the desired user experience. Your software always needs to be responsive to the user's interaction. Pick up some tips to avoid blocking the execution of the main thread and update the main view when the results are available from the child threads.
A Unit Testing Framework for the BlackBerry
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 24-Jul-08
What do you do when there's no effective unit testing framework for your programming environment? Why, build your own, of course! Building a simple unit testing framework for the BlackBerry provides some interesting insights into the BlackBerry programming environment.
Hamsterdb: a Small, Fast Database That Won't Weigh You Down
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 14-Jul-08
Need a fast database that won't bloat your application? Try this fast b+tree record manager with a small footprint, especially good for embedded device environments.
Using the Google Maps API in Android
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 18-Jun-08
Explore key Google Maps APIs that power Android mapping features.
Working with Images in Your Android App Development
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 21-May-08
Google's new mobile platform, Android, has become increasingly popular among developers even without hardware available on the market yet. Discover where to get the right software APIs and documentation as well as what technologies are supported. Then, you will focus on the technologies for images by working through an example.
Mastering Symbian OS Arrays
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 14-Jan-08
It is hardly possible you could avoid using arrays during your development on any platform and in any language. On Symbian OS, you will be surprised to find what the SDK can offer you. Learn this now!
Nominations for Developer.com Product of the Year Begin October 15
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 01-Oct-07
Help Developer.com choose the best of the best for the upcoming year.
The Most Popular Mobile Applications of 2006
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 13-Feb-07
By James Alan Miller
See what titles owners of devices built on the top-five smartphone platforms are buying and downloading.
Simple Bluetooth Communication in J2ME
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 12-Feb-07
By Wolvorine -
Learn how to use Bluetooth with a very simple way of using the wrapper class. It can be extended more by implementing new ideas in it.
Working with Textual Data: Be Prepared for Unexpected Problems
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 08-Feb-07
Mobile development has steadily become more than just a 'nice-to-have' feature, thanks to the permanently growing power of PDAs. Many desktop applications were ported to run in a mobile environment. Learn about a few underwater stones you might face when handling textual data.
Winners of the Developer.com's Product of the Year 2007 Are Announced
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 15-Jan-07
After months of nominations and voting see what technologies and products the readers of Developer.com selected as the best in their categories.
Mastering Symbian OS Descriptors
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 04-Dec-06
We all need to communicate with the outer world in various ways. Applications are no different, meaning that it's a must to manipulate textual data for most applications. With Symbian OS, it means dealing with descriptors. To accomplish such a "simple" task, you have to endure a small group of classes. Work through a few simple "HOW-TO" examples of typical operations.
Simple Rules that Boost Your Mobile Application's Performance
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 10-Nov-06
Application performance is usually a grey and painful area. Users obviously want your application to be rich in functionality and fly like a rocket with minimum resources required and so forth. How can you get closer to such an ideal creature? Learn a few simple rules and methods that will improve your mobile application's performance.
Get Familiar: Microsoft Bluetooth Stack on Windows Mobile
| Other Wireless/Mobile Article Published 27-Oct-06
Switch to yet another implementation of Bluetooth stack, this time from Microsoft as a part of the Windows Mobile OS SDK.
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