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Unit Testing on Mobile Devices with .NET/Mono
An ongoing problem with specialized platforms is the lack of support for unit testing. Developers are forced to compromise the quality of their tests or their build process in order to get anything working. Recently MonoTouch has made progress in this area, but Windows Phone and Mono for Android still lag behind.
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jQ.Mobi – jQuery Optimized for Mobile Devices
appMobi has open sourced jQ.Mobi, a rewrite of jQuery, competing with jQuery Mobile for developer mindshare.
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Funf Is a Sensing and Data Processing Mobile Framework
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.
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Mono for Android 4.0 Comes with Incremental Build and Deployment
Mono for Android 4.0 comes with a VS plug-in, incremental build, incremental deployment, installer with all packages needed, Google Maps integration, and support for Java 7. Miguel de Icaza explains how incremental build and deployment works, and how much they help.
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The Status of Android Porting to Other Platforms
Android is running mostly on ARM-based hardware, but there are attempts to bring it to other platforms. One of them is the well-known x86 platform used by many PCs and laptops, the other is MIPS, used in embedded systems mostly based on Linux, and lately on Android.
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ARM DS 5 CE Includes a Debugger and Analyzer of Android Native Code
ARM is offering a community edition of their Development Studio 5, containing a debugger and a performance analyzer of Android native code.
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appMobi Open Sources Its Mobile Platform During Black Friday
appMobi wants to make mobile web applications more attractive by open sourcing several technologies: JavaScript Bridge API –a cross-platform API providing access to the hardware-, mobiUs Web App Browser –a browser that looks and behaves like a native application, and HTML5 Game Acceleration – a Canvas object that improves HTML5 speed for games.
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Google Has Open Sourced Android 4.0
Google has released the source code for Android Ice Cream Sandwich and a new Native Development Kit.
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Android 4.0 Unifies Tablets and Phones with New Features
Android 4.0 runs both on tablets and phones, having new features for UI, communication, sharing, media, connectivity, input types and enterprise.
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Automated Testing Solutions for Android
There are a number of automated testing frameworks or tools for Android applications, including but not limited to Activity Instrumentation, MonkeyRunner, Robotium, or Robolectric. LessPainful is providing automated tested on real devices as a service.
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Tizen, a New Open Source Mobile OS Developed by Intel and Samsung
Intel is dropping MeeGo and joining forces with Samsung to create Tizen, a new mobile OS based on HTML5 and emerging web technologies.
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Sync Framework Breaks Platform Barriers
Sync Framework Toolkit builds on the Sync Framework 2.1 and uses OData to sync with any platform or client, including Windows Phone 7, Silverlight, Windows Mobile, iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android devices, and any browser using HTML5.
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NASA using Android in Space
On September 1st, the Official Google Blog reported that two Android-based Nexus phones have been transported to the ISS in the last manned Space Shuttle mission ST-135. Researchers want to investigate how robots can help humans experiment and live in space more efficiently with Android playing an important role.
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Windows Azure Toolkits for Devices Now Include Android
In addition to updates to the Windows Azure Toolkits for Windows Phone and iOS, Microsoft has introduced a new toolkit for Android, which can be used with applications developed with the Android SDK and Eclipse.
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New in RAD Studio XE2: Multiplatform, Native iOS&Android, HD&3D Animation, and Cloud
Embarcadero is preparing a new release of their RAD Studio XE2 tools which includes Delphi XE2, C++Builder XE2, RADPHP XE2, and Prism XE2, at exactly one year after the initial launch of the XE line on August 30, 2010. This release has many new features, the most interesting being support for cross-platform development, Windows 64-bit, Amazon Cloud API, Native Android and iOS, and HD&3D animation.