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What’s Next for Android?
Google bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5B, getting 17,000 patents plus another 7,500 in the process of being granted, most of them related to communication. Android gets more litigation protection, but Google is now a hardware manufacturer, unsetting the balance in the Open Handset Alliance, the organization promoting Android. Will Android partners move to other OSes?
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RIM to Offer Android Applications this Summer
RIM is continuing to flirt with development platforms. With Silverlight forgotten and Flash not really having a market to speak of, the next big target is Java and the Android marketplace.
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jQuery Mobile Beta 1 Supports Many Browsers and Platforms
jQuery Mobile has reached the Beta 1 milestone with support for all major browsers and mobile OSes. A final release is expected by the end of the summer.
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Native Mobile Apps Test Automation with NativeDriver
NativeDriver offers test automation for Android and iOS native applications. It implements the WebDriver API.
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Appcelerator’s Titanium Studio Makes Its Debut
Titanium Studio 1.0, an IDE for mobile, desktop and web development, is based on Aptana Studio and brings new features, such as: Android and iOS debugging, run-deploy-package mobile and desktop apps, Git support, integrated terminal, and others.
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Tools for Porting Android Apps to Windows Phone 7
Microsoft attracts Android developers to Windows Phone 7 (WP7) with an API mapping tool and a WP7 Guide.
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The Android Ecosystem by Tim Bray
Tim Bray, developer advocate at Google, presented yesterday evening his views on the Android Ecosystem at the Seattle Android Meetup. He talked about the successful business models for mobile apps, the new features coming this month and shared briefly his opinion the Web vs Native app.
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Presentation: Making Apps That Don't Suck
Developing apps that surprise and delight can seem like an illusive goal that is difficult to articulate or quantify. But in this latest presentation just posted on InfoQ Mike Lee, the software engineer that worked on projects like Delicious Library,Tap Tap Revenge and the Obama ’08 iPhone app, proposes an algorithm for making better apps.
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An Interview With Ed Schmit, AT&T Developer Ecosystem
InfoQ spoke with Ed Schmidt at the Seattle Mobile Developer Hackathon last month. He shares his perspective on how developers should prepare to develop mobile apps and the trends he sees in the industry.
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Scott Olson on Cross Platform Mobile Development with MonoCross
We recently interviewed Scott Olson of the MonoCross Project. The MonoCross Project is a framework for cross-platform mobile development. It uses a combination of .NET and Mono technologies.
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Microsoft releases Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS
Following on from the recent release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7, Microsoft announced on May 9, 2011 that they were making available a version for Apple’s iOS, and planning to release an Android version within the next month.
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Android Devices, Android@Home and MusicBeta Service, at Google I/O Keynote
Google I/O 2011 opened today with more than 5,000 attendees and several announcements from Google regarding new services and offerings. This post from InfoQ’s corresponded at the conference, summarizes those new developments.
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Cross Platform Libraries in .NET/Mono
In an attempt to address the platform divergence problem in the .NET/Mono ecosystem, Microsoft is working on an extension called Portable Library Tools. This tool allows the same compiled library to run on .NET 4.0, Silverlight, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7 are available. Microsoft is working with Mono to add support for MonoTouch and MonoDroid.
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A Survey on Mobile Development
Web Directions conducted a survey among mobile developers enquiring about their browser and platform of choice, what OS they are currently developing for, what OS they plan to target in the future. The conclusion: iOS and Safari are in the lead, Android is catching up quickly, and Windows Phone 7 is still behind.
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Mono Brings Silverlight to the Android Tablet and Phone
Under the mantra, “We love .NET more than Microsoft”, Mono has been making the promise of cross-platform .NET development a reality. First there was the native toolkit support for iOS and Android, now they are opening up the world of Android tablets to Silverlight developers.