InfoQ Homepage Mobile Development Content on InfoQ
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Chasing the Golden GOOS
Alex Aitken and Nick Faulkner share lessons learned building a cross-platform HTML5 application based on GOOS principles (Growing Object-Oriented Software).
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The Mobile Web Developer's Tool Belt
Pete LePage lists a number of mobile development tools, frameworks and libraries, and introduces a testing and iteration process meant to ensure an application works on as many devices as possible.
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Multiplatform, Promises and HTML5
Max Firtman discusses the present mobile ecosystem, why cross-platform is the key to success, HTML5 APIs, challenges with HTML5, when HTML5 is a proper solutions and other.
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Building Social Apps for All Mobile Platforms
James Pearce discusses the current trends in social applications and some of the challenges and solutions in creating HTML5 applications for mobile devices.
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Is It Really Possible to TDD iOS Apps?
Phil Nash discusses the challenges and practical consideration regarding doing TDD on mobile devices, providing advice for such development on iOS.
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Going Native: Decisions for Mobile
Elan Lennard discusses porting a desktop app to a mobile device: choosing the functionality that makes sense, make it look great, and deciding between native and HTML5.
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Advanced iOS Development
Pete Goodliffe presents advanced techniques for creating iOS apps based on real life examples that show how to make the most of Objective-C, how to create Retina apps, and others.
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Mobile Last - Considering the Mobile Experience when It's too Late for 'Mobile First'
Roger Attrill discusses various UX features to be considered when transitioning from desktop to mobile, including user types, constraints, opportunities, content organization, layout and navigation.
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Mobile Webdev: The Horror
John Bender presents the good, the bad, and the ridiculous aspects of doing cross-platform mobile web development, suggesting progressive enhancement as a way to address the existing issues.
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Console Quality Lighting on Mobile Devices
Matt Wash introduces the Geomerics Enlighten framework used by several popular games for generating dynamic lightning scenes and the challenges met porting it to iOS and Android.
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Cross-Platform Tools: Build Once and Run Everywhere
Alexey Karpik reviews JS libraries – Sencha, JQuery, Jo-, frameworks –Rhomobile, M-Project-, and tools –PhoneGap, MoSync, Appcelerator, Antenna-, discussing how they fare with mobile development.
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Best Buddies: Azure & Windows Phone!
Samidip Basu demoes using Push Notifications, OData, Live Services and Azure WP7 Toolkit for Windows Phone applications connected to the Azure cloud.