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  • Continuous Quality and the Cloud: How You Should Be Testing Mobile Apps

    What is so hard about developing and testing mobile apps? For a lot of developers the answer to this question is "keeping quality high in a field of device and os fragmentation". This is even more true when apps need to be delivered agile, in short release cycles. Cloud based test labs provide an infrastructure to efficiently execute automated tests for your software on a great number of devices.

  • Lessons Learned by Scaling Android Apps - AnDevCon Panel Summary

    At the last AnDevCon, Doug Bateman moderated a panel focused on what it takes to build Android apps that scale up to millions of global users. This included team management, testing and design for testability, feature and release management, support, open source contributions, alternative architectures, and more.

  • Hello App Inventor: Book Review and Interview

    Hello App Inventor is an android application development-programming book authored by Paula Beer and Carl Simmons. This article is a book review and Q&A with the authors. This book is dedicated to new learners of android. It makes reader learn about App Inventor programming language which is used via an Internet browser to design and make apps for Android phones.

  • Implementing and Searching Deep Links with the URX API

    John Milinovich explains why mobile deep links matter, how to implement them and search for deep links in other apps using the URX API.

  • Article Series: Creating Mobile Apps - Recently New Technology and Already a Commodity?

    This InfoQ article series is focused on the fast-changing world of Mobile technology. Various technologies emerged to create mobile apps and development processes start to consider mobile as first class citizens. But even though mobile already seems to be omnipresent, the future is just about to start. All this will influence the way we design, develop and test software in the coming years.

  • Behavioral Analysis for Mobile Apps

    Mobile channels are getting more and more important - not only for companies with focus on technology but also for traditional businesses. Consequently, the concepts of website optimization and customer behavior analysis are being transferred to field of mobile websites and mobile applications. The overall goal is to learn more about customer behavior and to adopt mobile applications to it.

  • Virtual Panel on App Development

    Mobile apps are everywhere and a company can hardly ignore them as an additional or even as the primary channel to offer services. Whereas it’s clear that one has to support Android and iOS to reach a maximum of users, it’s not quite clear, what technology and tools to chose to build applications for those systems or whether to go “native”, “hybrid” or “HTML/JavaScript” ...

  • DukeScript: A New Attempt to Run Java Everywhere

    DukeScript is a technology meant to bring Java to every client, mobile or desktop, without the need of a plug-in. In spite of its misleading name, DukeScript is not a new scripting language but an attempt to “put Java back in JavaScript”, in an attempt to fulfill the initial vision for Java: Write Once, Run Everywhere.

  • Building and Deploying Android Apps Using JavaFX

    Java was invented to provide a software environment for embedded devices. But a strange loop in history made Java the top language for enterprise software. Java comes full circle with JavaFX, a mature Rich Client Application framework included in the Java 8 core libraries. In this article, we show how to deploy JavaFX Applications on Android devices, a game changer for the JavaFX platform.

  • Unusual Ways to Create a Mobile App

    There are hundreds of thousands of mobile applications for nearly every purpose in the iOS or Android app stores. Usually they are created with Objective-C toolstacks for iOS devices and Java based for Android handsets. In this article we would like to show you two not so common ways to build native apps with Java and Xtend which help to share code between both worlds and simplify development.

  • Interview with Joel Murach - Author of Murach's Android Programming

    Murach Publishing continues to provide quality content for programmers by updating their titles regularly. Murach Android Programming by Joel Murach attempts to provide a comprehensive coverage of Android with plenty of screenshots and source codes to help developers to code in real world situations.

  • Book Review: Building Applications with the Android SDK, 2nd Edition

    The Android Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK, 2nd Edition is a collaborative effort by Ronan Schwarz, Phil Dutson, James Steele and Nelson To. The authors have succeeded in providing a solid reference book. A book for mobile app developers that can serve as an authoritative guide for newbies and intermediate to expert devs for creating awesome mobile apps.

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