Firefox becomes WinPhone 7′s first big native code casualty
Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 3/23/2010 With the confirmation that Windows Phone 7 Series will not support native code development—only C# with Silverlight or XNA—the first major casualty has emerged: Firefox for Windows Mobile. Citing the inability to migrate the existing development effort to the new platform, Fennec (the mobile version of Firefox currently in development [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP), WinPhone · Tagged with: Flash, SDK
Available to all BlackBerry developers : Push
3/17/2010 The BlackBerry® Push Service is an essential component of the real-time, always-on experience of BlackBerry smartphones. It offers an incredibly efficient and reliable way of sending information to your users. It also allows your application to process information in the background and alert users. Use the BlackBerry Push Service to incorporate the characteristics smartphone [...]
In: Blackberry, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Linux, Push, SDK
Android native development kit updated
Paul Krill, InfoWorld, 3/9/2010 OpenGL ES 2.0 added to package enabling developers to build performance-critical parts of an app in native code Developers of the Google-backed Android mobile application platform have released revision 3 of Android NDK (Native Development Kit), which complements Android SDK by enabling developers to build performance-critical portions of an application in [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: API, Linux, SDK
Palm webOS PDK Public Beta Is Available Now
Mark Wilson, Gizmodo, 3/9/2010 Palm’s complement to their SDK, the webOS Plug-in Development Kit (PDK), is available in beta form now. Download it here. Palm webOS PDK Public Beta Now Available Palm Demonstrates New Games at Game Developers Conference SAN FRANCISCO, Game Developers Conference (GDC), March 9, 2010 – Palm, Inc. today announced that a [...]
In: Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: SDK
Where Android beats the iPhone
Peter Wayner, ComputerWorld, 3/3/2010 Can Google Android phones compete with the Apple iPhone? A few weeks ago, Google loaned me a Nexus One smartphone for experimentation, and I’ve spent the time since downloading applications and writing my own code. The good news is that the platform is not only competitive but is often a better [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: API, JailBreak, Linux, SDK
Palm webOS 1.4 SDK released to developers, allows apps to record video
Greg Kumparak, MobileCrunch, 3/2/2010 It’s a bit different than the “developers get the new firmware first” mentality we’ve grown used to from those other guys, but Palm has now released the SDK for webOS 1.4. The flagship feature of webOS 1.4 (besides Adobe Flash support, which isn’t available just yet) is its new found ability [...]
In: Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: Flash, SDK
Jailbreaking in the iPhone 3.0 era
Mel Beckman, ComputerWorld, 3/1/2010 In a few short years, Apple has established the iPhone as the mobile platform to beat. Each successive firmware update opens new, and often unmatched, features for users and developers to explore. Many of these features, however, find their roots outside Apple’s walled-garden approach to the iPhone, as the jailbreak community [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, API, AT&T, Bluetooth, FCC, Flash, JailBreak, MMS, Push, SDK, Skype, VoIP, WiFi
iPad has no camera, but Apple’s SDK mentions video chat, flash
AppleInsider Staff, 2/24/2010 Adding to the already-strong evidence that Apple toyed with the idea of a forward facing camera in the iPad, references to video conferencing, as well as camera flash and zoom, have been discovered in the latest beta of the iPad software development kit. Digging through the PLCameraController.h frameworks in iPhone OS 3.2 [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: SDK
iPhone 3.2 SDK hints at iPhone with video calls
Electronista, 2/21/2010 iPhone SDK has hooks for video chat A discovery in the iPhone 3.2 developer kit suggests Apple is opening the door to video calls on its device. Icons in the Telephony UI framework would cover accepting or declining a video chat invitation; code references alternately make references to “iChat” and (in the video [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, SDK
Opera Mini on iPhone is fast, but why?
Thomas Ricker, Engadget, 2/17/2010 We came, we saw, and we’re still scratching our heads over what Opera is up to with its Mobile World Congress demonstration of its Opera Mini browser running on the iPhone 3GS. But before we get into that, let’s talk performance: it’s fast. Opera Mini is very, very fast on the [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology, WinPhone · Tagged with: SDK