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Mobile HTML5

Topics
HTML5,
Mobile,
iOS

Scott Davis explains how to prepare a website for mobile devices from small tweaks –smaller screen sizes, portrait/landscape- to using HTML5’s local storage, application cache, and remote data.

News about Android

jQ.Mobi – jQuery Optimized for Mobile Devices

Topics
HTML5,
Open Source,
iOS,
Cross Platform,
Javascript,
Mobile

appMobi has open sourced jQ.Mobi, a rewrite of jQuery, competing with jQuery Mobile for developer mindshare.

Funf Is a Sensing and Data Processing Mobile Framework

Topics
Mobile,
Tools

Funf is an open source framework for collecting and analyzing mobile data. It has been used by MIT to see how political opinions change during an election campaign, how users interact with each other, or how illnesses spread through population.

Articles about Android

Mobile Attacks and Defense

Topics
Security,
Mobile

In this IEEE article, author Charlie Miller talks about the mobile security vulnerabilities. He explains how smart phones are becoming targets of attackers and discusses security models of two smart phone operating systems: Apple's iOS and Google's Android. The attackers can get remote code to run on a mobile device in two ways: mobile malware and drive-by downloads.

Wally McClure on the Future of MonoTouch and Mono for Android

Topics
Architecture,
Mobile,
.NET

Wallace B. McClure is the co-author of Professional iPhone Programming with MonoTouch and .NET/C# and the soon to be released Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C#. Our interview took place took place prior to and just following the announcement that Xamarin would be taking over maintenance of Mono from Attachmate.

Presentations about Android

UI in an Agile Process - The Quick 'n' Dirty Approach in the Real World

Topics
Agile,
User Experience,
iOS,
User Interface,
Mobile

Janne Jul Jensen presents the development process of a mobile banking application from prototyping to the actual product including SCRUM sessions, sprint evaluations, UI designing, and user feedback.

Mirah for Android Development

Topics
Language,
Mobile,
Ruby

Brendan Ribera introduces Mirah, a JVM-based programming language with a Ruby-like syntax, type inference, closures, meta-programming, macros, showing how to use it for Android development.

Interviews about Android

Adam Blum on Future of Smartphones, Rhodes 2.0

Topics
Runtimes,
Rich Internet Apps,
Language,
Platforms,
Mobile,
Ruby

Adam Blum discusses the future of smartphones: sensors, languages, and programming paradigms. Also: what's new in Rhodes 2.0, the cross platform smartphone Ruby app framework.

Dylan Schiemann on Mobile Web application Development with HTML 5 and JavaScript

Topics
Java,
.NET,
Javascript,
Mobile,
Ruby

Dylan Schiemann talks about the challenges that Mobile Web Application developers face and how technologies like HTML 5 and JavaScript assist them. He also points out common pitfalls and ways to get around them.