Mobile Newsletter - How to make your Android projects more portable to Windows/MacOS (and vice versa)

7 articles this week Thursday, April 17, 2014 View online Welcome to this week's Mobile Development newsletter from CodeProject. Advertisements Most Powerful, Real-Time Crash Reporting for iOS & Android Spend less time finding & more time fixing crashes. Crashlytics provides deep insights, even the exact line of code your app crashed on. Trusted by apps like Square, Yelp & Path, we offer unlimited developer seats at no cost! Enjoy it on us. Cisco and mobile? Surely not … Surely yes! Embed full video and voice capabilities within your web app or iOS app with the new Cisco Jabber Guest APIs. How? Dive straight into the APIs with the Cisco DevNet dev program at Cisco Live in San Francisco - 18 - 22 May - all for $49. Learn More and Register! Google now lets you access your computer through Android with Chrome Remote Desktop Yay! No more need to head into work. Instead, write that code while remoted in using your tablet. Hopefully not using the virtual keyboard. (more: The Verge) BlackBerry just had its first good idea in years BlackBerry's missteps over the last decade are tough to overstate. This makes it all the more surprising that the company has just taken a truly smart step toward securing its future. (more: Wired) This is Amazon's smartphone Is this where we have come to? Does *every* company need to have their own phone? Ah well, at least they're not doing their own OS for it. (more: BGR) Open private workspaces for only $2 per month! Workspaces now powers CodeProject and it's available for your own projects! Git, Task tracking, or private workspaces - as many as you want. Offer limited to the first 10,000 signups until May 30. Try it today! Secure Coding for the Android Platform The CERT Secure Coding team, part of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, have recently released secure coding guidelines specific to Java's application in the Android platform. (more: InfoQ) Intel looks to Android, not Microsoft, to boost tablet business I guess this means Wintel isn't an active term in the future? What should we use instead? Antel? Gootel? Indroid? (more: Computer world) Android docs reveal before iPhone, Google's plan was a Java button phone Before and after versions of Google's internal "software functional requirements" documents released in the Apple vs Samsung trial this week show that prior to Apple's 2007 iPhone debut, Google's vision for Android was a simple button phone running Sun's Java. (more: Apple Insider) Your voice will control the future If only Majel Barrett were still around, she would be making a fortune. (more: Forbes) Latest Articles 7 articles overall. 6 new, 1 updated. New articles added Mobile Development Port a 2D libgdx game to MonoGame - Giannakakis Kostas Port your libgdx games to run in Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms Product Showcase How to write once, and test encrypted data storage for Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, Android and iOS - Stephen_Ball How to write once, and test encrypted data storage for Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, Android and iOS Articles updated Android How to make your Android projects more portable to Windows/MacOS (and vice versa) - Tiancheng Hu Using ThinkAlike, an ongoing Java MVVM framework(employing Android and JavaFX as view layer), to implement a cross-platform HearthStone game card reference and more. New Tips and Tricks added Android How to Populate a Spinner (Dropdown/Picklist) with Values in Android - B. Clay "el Gonző" Shannon Easily create and hook up values to display in an Android Spinner New Technical Blogs added Mobile Development Android development: a Bluetooth label/receipt printing demo - hjgode BtPrint4 A Bluetooth Label printer demo This is my first Android project and I had to learn how to get an Android activity working. I am a Windows Mobile C# developer and had to learn that you have to do many handwritten code in compare to what Visual Studio for SmartDevice development does automati Windows Phone 7/8 3 Easy Ways to Store Data Locally in a Windows Phone App - Alex Turok Our applications – no matter whether games, productivity tools or business software – are all about data. As a result, when developing a program of any kind we spend most of the time solving data-related problems like where to get it, what to do about it, how to show it to our users and where to sto Use Converters in your Windows Phone Apps - Alex Turok In a recent post I have covered several approaches to store data in a Windows Phone application. Another important problem is presenting data in an easy and controllable way that would not interfere with other layers of your app. To some extent XAML handles this task well, but from time to time just © 2014 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. This email was sent to vutunglampro@gmail.com. To stop receiving The Code Project Insider News click here. CodeProject 503-250 Ferrand Drive, Toronto Ontario, M3C 3G8 Canada +1 416-849-8900 x 100 Please do not reply directly to this email. It was sent from an unattended mailbox. For correspondence please use webmaster@codeproject.com