Category: Mobile
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Delivering Rich Mobile Web Experiences in Windows Phone 7.5 (ESPN.com Case Study)
The Windows Phone Browser team has a goal of delivering the best web browsing experience on a smartphone. This goal has many components within our team: from the UI of the browser, compatibility with a wide array of website layouts, and of course buttery-smooth rendering performance. However, even if we execute flawlessly on our end,…
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Appsify.me – Créer votre application iPhone en ligne
Article rédigé par Julian Aroun. Appsify.me, société toulousaine, est un nouveau venu dans le vaste monde des logiciels de création d’application iPhone en ligne. Le service reprend les principaux éléments ayant fait la force de WordPress. Il se présente sous la forme d’un CMS à uploader sur son serveur. Une fois le CMS installé, vous…
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Tellme on Windows Phone vs Siri on iPhone
In a Forbes interview with Microsoft’s Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer, he contended that comparing Siri on the iPhone 4S and Tellme on Windows Phones are much alike. Craig says, At least from a technological capability you could argue Microsoft has had a similar capability in Windows Phone for more than a year……
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ChevronWP7 Labs Availability
Hey folks, we want to brief you on an important milestone we’ve reached. Early this morning, we officially signed off on the final deployment of ChevronWP7 Labs. This marks the point in the development process where we leave the keys in the ignition and bail. Just kidding. Seriously though, we are very happy to announce…
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OmniTouch, faites de n’importe quelle surface un écran tactile – Mon Windows Phone
Après la technologie PocketTouch de Microsoft, voici OmniTouch. Il s’agit d’une technologie permettant d’utiliser n’importe quelle surface en tant qu’écran tactile. Une unité prototype transportable a pu être construite par Microsoft en assemblant une caméra (semblable à Kinect mais modifiée pour fonctionner à courte portée) ainsi qu’un projecteur. Tout comme PocketTouch, OmniTouch provient tout droit…
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Portage d’applications Android sur Windows Phone
Microsoft cherche à développer son Marketplace et a décidé de simplifier le travail des développeurs Android en leur proposant deux outils permettant de développer facilement sur Windows Phone en simplifiant la transition.Le paquet fournit contient : Outil de mappage d’API Android vers Windows Phone Le livre blanc “Windows Phone 7 Guide for Android Application Developers”…
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Leveraging your Android development expertise to build Windows Phone applications
Following up with the Windows Phone guidance and API mapping tool for iPhone developers I wrote about a few weeks ago, today we are releasing a comprehensive package for Android developers to easily learn Windows Phone and port their app to Microsoft’s phone platform. As I mentioned in my previous post, I think it is…
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WindowsPhone7 C# programming introduced to Objective-C programmers
Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 12:00:00 AMTags: iPhone, WP7, Porting, language, C# In the previous chapter, we looked at the user interface guidelines for WP7 applications. We will now dive deeper into what it takes to implement a WP7 application. In this chapter, we will look at the various C# features that map to the…
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Leveraging your iPhone development expertise to build Windows Phone 7 applications
Update – 6/9/2011: WP7 to Android API Mapping to is now available Assuming you are a happy coder, the joy of developing software all comes down to a few things: Building something cool that users will enjoy Getting rewards from users and recognition from peers Learning how to solve new challenges and build novel features.…
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iOS 4 records your location in a hidden file, syncs it to your desktop when connected to iTunes
If you didn’t already think your smartphone knows too much about you, here’s a handy reminder. A duo of UK researchers have uncovered a worrying (and oddly enough, undocumented) feature in iOS 4: it asks your iPhone to record your location constantly, then timestamps that data and records it for posterity. Without alerting you that…