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Make Your ASP.NET Web Apps Work On Mobile
The View-switcher feature in ASP.NET MVC 4 makes it easier to make existing desktop-focussed web apps play nice on mobile devices. Scott Hanselman demoes how to use this feature and shares other tips.
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Microsoft Is Unifying Their PC, Tablet and Smartphone Operating Systems
Microsoft has announced a set of new features for the upcoming Windows Phone 8: same code base with Windows 8, multicore support, secure boot, device encryption, remote managing and others. There will be one OS on all devices.
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Current Trends in Enterprise Mobility
x[cube] Labs has created an infographic that shows current developments and major trends in enterprise mobility including devices, platforms and application choices.
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Interview: Improving the Performance of Android ICS
In this interview, Bernhard Rosenkränzer, a Linaro engineer, explains how they improved the performance of Android 4.0.4 from 20% to 500%.
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Google Announces PageSpeed Insights 2.0
Google has released PageSpeed Insights 2.0 with an interface redesign, extensions for Chrome and Firefox, automatic page optimizations with an online service or via SDK, an API, support for mobile devices and more analysis rules.
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PouchDB – a CouchDB-inspired Offline Web Database
Inspired by Apache CouchDB, PouchDB (Portable CouchDB) is a small footprint database for web and especially mobile applications that need a browser-based storage solution that can be used offline. The database can be synchronized with CouchDB databases or other PouchDBs when the device comes back online.
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Google and Microsoft Want to Improve HTTP
Google and Microsoft want to improve HTTP with SPDY and Speed+Mobility. This article reviews both proposals outlining what benefits they bring to the much used Internet protocol.
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Xamarin’s Mono for Android Now Includes a Visual Designer
Xamarin has announced a visual designer for their Mono for Android development tool integrated with Visual Studio or MonoDevelop.
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MoSH - The Mobile Shell
The Mobile Shell takes a number of new approaches in providing shell connections for mobile and roaming clients.
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Yahoo! Open Sources Mojito, a JavaScript Framework Promising Write Once, Run Anywhere
Yahoo! has open source Mojito, a framework for creating reusable widgets incorporated in various web applications and executed either on the client or the server-side without code change.
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A New Survey Outlines the Trends in Mobile Development for 2012
A new Appcelerator/IDC report concludes: HTML5 becomes quite important for mobile developers, Google is catching up with Facebook, iOS is doing well, Android slips, WP7 still interesting, BlackBerry is down, and when it comes to cloud services developers are interested in location and notifications.
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Adobe Is Distributing Cordova under the PhoneGap Brand
Adobe will continue offering PhoneGap as a Cordova distribution along with PhoneGap Build and Adobe Shadow.
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Interview on AIDE, an Android Java IDE Running on Android
AIDE is an IDE running on Android for developing Android applications. This post contains an interview with its creators.
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Xamarin Mono for Android Now Runs on MIPS
Xamarin has completed the Mono port to MIPS and now offers Mono for Android running on the MIPS architecture besides the ARM one.
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The Current Status of Mozilla’s Boot2Gecko
Mozilla has progressed with Boot2Gecko, an open mobile operating system who’s interface is made up of applications based only on HTML, JavaScript and CSS, and running on top of Gecko. Telefonica, Deutsche Telecom and Adobe have announced their interest in the platform.