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Evaluating Porting Efforts with Xamarin Mobility Scanner
Xamarin has announced the availability of Xamarin Mobility Scanner, a free online service for scanning .NET libraries in order to evaluate the effort needed to port them to Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Windows Store.
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Building iOS/C# User Interfaces: Importing, Imperative, Drawing, or Drag and Drop
Xamarin.iOS now supports three development models for designing iOS user interfaces with C#: importing from XCode, drag-and-drop using Xamarin Studio, drawing in PaintCode, or purely imperative using raw C#.
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Xamarin Releases New Guides with Samples Based on Evolve 2013 Training Sessions
Xamarin has released a new set of guides based on Evolve curriculum which provides a comprehensive coverage of the various aspects of the various APIs with the help of relevant samples.
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Fries: Building a Native Android Interface with HTML, JavaScript and CSS
Inspired by Ratchet, an iPhone application prototyping framework, Jaune Sarmiento has created Fries, a small framework for creating the UI of Android applications using just HTML, JavaScript and CSS, no native code. While many have done similar interfaces, Fries mimics the native Android 4.0 interface pretty well.
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Facebook Buck and xctool: Open Source Build Tools for Android and iOS
This article contains details on the recently open sourced Buck and xctool, the build tools used internally by Facebook for their native Android and iOS applications.
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Sauce Labs Appium Now Can Test Android and Firefox OS Apps
Sauce Labs has extended Appium to support automated testing for Android and Firefox OS applications. Support for iOS was introduced earlier this year.
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Quickly Create Mono Bindings with Objective Sharpie
Objective Sharpie is the child of Aaron Bockover. This tool creates C# bindings suitable for use in Mono for Objective C SDKs. Objective Sharpie works by using Clang to parse Objective C header files. Since the process is automated, and has full access to the header, binding errors should be non-existent for most libraries.
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Build Data Driven and Native Mobile Apps with RAD Studio XE4
RAD Studio XE 4, recently released by Embarcadero enable developers to develop multi device and true native mobile apps for PCs, iPhone and iPad using a single code base.
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Facebook Releases PhoneGap Plugin and SDK for .NET
The recently released PhoneGap Facebook Plugin enables developers to enable Facebook single sign-on into their PhoneGap based Android and iOS apps. Facebook also released SDK for .NET which enables developers to integrate Facebook into their Windows Phone and Windows 8 applications.
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Stanford Offers Free Introductory Course on iOS Programming
Stanford University is offering a free introductionary course "Coding Together: Developing Apps for iPhone and iPad (Winter 2013)" on iTunes U. All lectures can be downloaded as video podcasts along with slides in PDF format. The material is suitable for Objective-C and iOS programming beginners, though knowledge of object-oriented concepts and languages is required.
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Filepicker - Upload, Download, Connect and Synchronize Files from your App to the Users Cloud
Filepicker.io enables you to upload and store files from your own application via Facebook, Dropbox, Instagra, Flickr and etc including from your own computer.
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PhoneGap 2.5 Enables Application Cache and InAppBrowser Geolocation
PhoneGap 2.5 has been released with support for application cache and InAppBrowser geolocation including several updates and bug fixes.
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Xamarin 2.0 Brings a New IDE, Visual Studio Add-in for iOS and a Component Store
Xamarin has made yet another major step in completing their vision on providing a set of common tools for cross-platform mobile development. With the announcement of Xamarin 2.0 comes a rebranding of their products, a new IDE called Xamarin Studio, a Visual Studio add-in for iOS development, and a component store, the later being detailed by Miguel de Icaza for InfoQ.
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Google App Engine Adds Support for Java 7
Google App Engine introduces experimental support for Java 7, Cloud Endpoints, and Cloud Messaging Service for Android.
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Oracle Announces Open Source JavaFX for iOS and Android
Oracle has announced plans to open source the iOS and Android implementations of its JavaFX UI platform "over the next couple of months", allowing developers to use the technology to write cross-platform applications for those platforms for the first time.