Posts Tagged ‘Developers’
Tired of all that boring ol’ two finger pinching-and-zooming and swiping on the iPhone? Ready for some fancy new gestures to be thrown into the mix? Wish granted. Soon. Maybe.
Last night, Apple released a new beta of iPhone OS 3.2 to developers. As is par for the course at this [...]Read the whole story [...]
Today Palm announced that its webOS plug-in development kit (PDK) is now available to the public. The PDK works with Palm’s webOS software development kit (SDK) and allows developers to use C and C++ programming languages with web technologies. The PDK will make it easier for developers that have written [...]Read the whole story [...]
MIPS Technologies today announced two new solutions for Android developers. The first tool is its QEMU open source emulator which provides a virtual space to develop Android application on the MIPS architecture. MIPS will also begin to offer new Arriba Tools for QEMU which includes the Arriba Linux debug, profiling [...]Read the whole story [...]
Apple and Google are engaged in a fascinating battle of mobile OS’s. Among other things, they’re duking it out on patent infringement, developer relations and carrier support. Lines are being drawn, and everyone’s taking sides.
That begs the question: what’s the difference between the App Store and Android Market for developers? [...]Read the whole story [...]
Uh oh.
On at least a few occasions, Android developers have mentioned to me that the multi-touch sensors on certain Android handsets — especially the Nexus One — seemed a bit.. flaky. I’d had nothing but solid experiences while dabbling with multi-touch in all of the apps I could find that [...]Read the whole story [...]
Remember the time when Apple added an “Explicit” category to the list of app genres that developers could submit to? You should, because it was only a few hours ago.
Well, it’s gone. The option has been pulled from the submission page, and the developer who spotted the backpedaling says a [...]Read the whole story [...]
Another fire erupted amongst developers and consumers when Apple decided to pull the plug on apps that contained content of questionable nature. This isn’t the first time Apple has done this, but with the pulling of Wobble iBoobs from the app store came a surge of app killings and everyone [...]Read the whole story [...]
The bane of all mobile app developers is the need to rewrite the same app over and over again for different devices: the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm Pre, Nokia, Windows Mobile. Adobe is positioning its Flash platform (which includes the Flash player, AIR, developer tools, and media servers) as the [...]Read the whole story [...]
Today, UK design firm ustwo has launched PositionApp, an iPhone application that provides data regarding the top 300 apps in the App Store from the last 6 months. The price of the app would have been $7, but AdMob (well, Google technically) is sponsoring the app so that it is [...]Read the whole story [...]
Considering how many times I’ve written about it, it probably goes without saying that I’m a fan of Skyfire. By way of server-side magic (read: proxied data compression), it’s still the only smartphone browser that can reliably play both Flash and Silverlight content. Its only fault? It’s only available for [...]Read the whole story [...]