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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.
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A New Garbage Collector and Memory Profiler for iOS/MonoTouch
MonoTouch for iOS now supports the generational garbage collector SGen. Until recently this was an experimental option only available on the full version of Mono. Along with it comes a Memory Profiler for iOS that it accessible via the MonoDevelop IDE.
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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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HP Has Open Sourced webOS’ browser, Isis
HP has open sourced Isis, a QtWebKit-based browser, and has outlined the guiding principles for Open webOS’ governance model.
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A Look at MonoTouch.Dialog
MonoTouch.Dialog is a UI development toolkit designed to dramatically reduce the amount of boilerplate code needed to create application screens for the iPhone and iPad. Through the creative use of attributes, screens are dynamically built from class definitions. Alternately they can be programmatically created or loaded from a JSON document.
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Microsoft Details Windows 8 for ARM
Microsoft has detailed Windows 8 for ARM: architected for low power consumption, apps that can only target WinRT, restricted desktop that allows only Office 15 and some Windows components to run.
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Windows Phone 8 Is to Be Based on WinRT?
Leaked information suggests that Microsoft is working on unifying the Windows ecosystem, while Windows Phone 8 will be based on WinRT rather than Windows CE.