Windows Phone 7 – Released To Manufacturing
Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards, and we’re very excited to say that we’ve reached the biggest milestone for our internal team – the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Phone 7! While the final integration of Windows Phone 7 with our partners’ hardware, software, and networks is underway, the work of our internal engineering team is largely complete. more...
Palm puts webOS 2.0 SDK into limited release starting today
Palm fans, get your party hats on. Today the company is announcing the beta release of its SDK for webOS 2.0, which means we're getting dangerously close to a proper 2.0 release for devices. And who knows... maybe the phone-maker will decide to throw a new device our way to go along with the OS. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. more...
Android hardware comparison chart
Awesome spreadsheet detailing all known Android devices. Compiled, updated and provided by Courtesy of Portable Electronics Ltd since 3th July 2009. more...
Designing for the Retina display
Building apps for the iPhone 4’s Retina display means building two sets of images—one at 163ppi and another at 326ppi. After slugging our way through an app build or two, we feel confident that we have a decent workflow for attacking future Retina display app designs. Hopefully this information is of use to other designers. more...
JQuery Mobile - Update: Draft Components, webOS, Blackberry 4.7
This is the first status update regarding the work that we’ve been putting in to jQuery Mobile. We hope to have similar updates about once a week – along with posts describing new things that we’ve learned along the way. Some sample components implemented by the folks at Filament Group. Currently they components are done purely in HTML/CSS (no images) and are ARIA accessible and completely implemented using progressive enhancement. more...
Mobile OS Platforms-Which horse should you bet on?
Here is an extract from Golden Gekko's view of the mobile platform landscape today with an insight into likely losers and gainers going forwards: The mobile ecosystem keeps on evolving faster than ever and it's often difficult to see the macro trends with all the day to day announcements and comments about winners and losers. One of the most exciting things is that nothing is certain. more...
WhitherApps - BBC News, pt 1
For the inaugural WhitherApps project, we’re going to look at the (excellent) BBC News iPhone/iPad app and see if it could have been built as a web app, rather than in native code. To kick off with, we’re going to try and emulate the iPad version, in both orientation modes. What we’re basically aiming for is this: more...
CSS3 Transitions and Transforms in Gmail for the iPad
The Mobile Gmail team recently announced a new stacked cards interface for the iPad. In this interface we make use of CSS3 transitions and transforms to provide a more intuitive interface that has a look and feel that is similar to native applications. In this post we will describe CSS3 transitions and transforms and how they were used to develop this interface. more...
Getting Started with Touchscreen UIs in Java Platform, Micro Edition
The idea of touchscreen interfaces is not new, of course. I used to own a Palm Pilot-type device back in 1999 that had a doodle with which to draw on the screen and make gestures. Touchscreen has come a long way since then, and Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iPod have brought about a revolution in screen manipulation using touch. more...
Geofencing: What's Next For Location-Based Services?
Until recently, iPhone location app designs were limited by the constraints of single-tasked OS capabilities: launch Foursquare and check-in, use Yelp find a nearby place of interest, open another app to update your status and tag it with location. All of these scenarios require users to have a participatory role in publishing and sharing. This works well for some apps that require active engagement such as broadcasting your Twitter status and where you'll be later. more...
Nokia takes beta label off free signing
Nokia has taken the beta label of its free Symbian Signing program, demonstrating Nokia's long term commitment to lowering costs for developers placing their applications in the Ovi Store. Previously the cost for a developer to sign their first Symbian application was $215, with an additional $15 for every signing instance thereafter. In order to participate in the free signing program developers need only become Ovi Store publishers, which means paying a one-off fee of €50. more...
Beyond Mobiles: Android as a Universal Development Platform
Early next year GoogleTV will include the Android Market, meaning that it will be a compatible device. A GoogleTV is unlikely to include telephony support, or a camera, microphone, vibration, compass, GPS, or LED. And it likely won’t be the first Android device that isn’t a phone. This suggests that there are some changes in store for the Android compatibility definition. If you were an apps developer when the first desktop computer was released – what would you have built? more...
More on CSS Media Queries for Mobile
My previous post on CSS Media Queries kicked off quite a bit of conversation. I wanted to follow up on a few points that have been made and a couple of things I failed to communicate well in the original post. CSS Media Queries are a Useful Tool for Mobile... One of the unfortunate side effects of the strident title I chose was that it gave many people the impression that I didn’t think CSS Media Queries were useful at all for mobile. more...
Announcing the jQuery Mobile Project
The jQuery project is really excited to announce the work that we’ve been doing to bring jQuery to mobile devices. Not only is the core jQuery library being improved to work across all of the major mobile platforms, but we’re also working to release a complete, unified, mobile UI framework. more...
Microsoft creates a Windows Phone 7 app to show devs how its supposed to be done
So far every Windows Phone 7 app I have seen have been black and white with DOS-like graphics straight from Tron (and not the new version either). more...
Nexus One Developer Phone
We've always offered unlocked phones for direct sale to registered Android Developers. As of today, the Developer Phone is the Nexus One, at a price of $529. To see the details or order a phone, you need to sign in to your Android developer account and click on the "Development Phones" link. more...
iPhone Programming Tutorial – Local Notifications
Way back when, when everyone was still complaining about Apple’s lack of support for (3rd party) multitasking, there was a simple solution put in place. This solution was known as push notifications. Push notifications solved many of the issues associated with background processing. For example, when quitting the AIM application, the server could keep you logged in and send you a push notification when a new message arrived. You could then tap on a View button that would launch the app. more...
Web Design Guidelines for the Nokia N900
This document contains information and guidelines for web developers who want to ensure that their pages work well with the Nokia N900 with Maemo 5 OS. In version 1.1 of the document, information about portrait orientation has been added. more...
Introduction to Bada - A Developer's Guide. (Free eBook)
This book will give you the information you need to get developing great applications on Samsung’s powerful and well-abstracted SDK. You’ll find out more about bada’s highly-efficient runtime and programming language capabilities, the seamless integration of server-side services and also get to grips with the powerful tools like the simulator or event injector. more...
Why develop for Qt? And a gentle introduction
If you've been wondering how to get started in developing serious applications for Symbian and weren't quite sure whether to knuckle down and get into the official C++-based Symbian SDK or head for the new programming wunderkind, Qt (pronounced 'cute'), then have a look at this interview with Lucian Tomuta, also embedded below. He gives an intro and then shows how easy it is to compile and test apps, right onto the phone. more...
