CodeProject | Mobile Newsletter - How the iPad Air stacks up against its competitors

4 articles this week Thursday, October 24, 2013 View online Welcome to this week's Mobile Development newsletter from CodeProject. Advertisements Build iOS & Android apps with Visual Studio Telerik Icenium now includes Visual Studio integration. Code once using HTML5 & JavaScript - build, test, and publish native-running iOS & Android apps. Start your 30 day trial with support! Responsive Design Best Practices. Learn best practices for implementing an optimized user experience across mobile and desktop using a responsive design approach. Watch the video now. Mobile Development Survey Part II We recently asked you a few questions about mobile development, and you went the distance to suggest a few questions that we missed. Thanks to you, we can dive a little deeper into how you are developing for mobile. In fact, you had so many great suggestions, we'll be conducting part III after this survey closes. Your answers help us shape how we work in the community, and for that we are extremely grateful. (more: CodeProject) How the iPad Air stacks up against its competitors I understand Apple announced something recently? You'd hardly know - if you completely detach from the Internet, stop watching all media, and don't talk with anyone (in the industry or not). Still, they seem to be lovely, shiny objects (although kind of overpriced). (more: Infoworld) Microsoft pulls some Windows Phone web 'apps' following complaint I really don't see what the problem is: Google has had their "Apps" for a while now, and many of those could be replaced with a bookmark. A lot of consumers think of Web sites as separate applications and having a quick way to get their Facebook hit might be useful to some. (more: The Verge) Looking for App Ideas? Look at Bluetooth Smart Bluetooth Smart offers countless products to link your app to: fitness trackers, smart watches, door locks, & more. Tap into these high growth markets & create apps for Bluetooth enabled smartphones & tablets in no time. Download the app accelerator tool. Real-Time iOS & Android Performance Statistics Improve your iOS & Android app performance and get a shirt! New Relic gives iOS & Android Developers real-time visibility into app performance & throughput. Spot bugs & fix code-level problems. Try New Relic today, and the shirt is yours to keep! All you need to know from Nokia World 2013 Oh right, another company also announced a few items this week. (As an aside, I'm sure that Apple hosting their shindig on the same day was just a coincidence) The soon-to-be Windows Phone Hardware division rolled out a metric boat-load of new phones, tablets, and... other stuff (I refuse to type that ph-word again). (more: WPCentral) App store apps have been downloaded 60 billion times, earning developers $13 billion Thar's gold in them thar apps! Well, for some people. Mostly Apple - if the 30% rate I've heard is real, that $13B left them with a nice tip. Time to get busy. (more: Tech Vibes) New Surfaces once again meaninglessly dissed for low repairability People repair these things? I thought they were solid blocks of aluminum/plastic/"vapormag"? Slightly more seriously, the notion of consumer-repairs on a device designed to be as light and portable as possible seems a bit of an unreasonable expectation. (more: Ars Technica) Build Data-Driven Apps in Minutes Iron Speed Designer is the fastest way to deliver feature-rich applications for .NET, SharePoint and software-as-a-service cloud computing environments. Amaze users with visually stunning applications that look like they took months to build. Download a Trial! Tesla CEO wants to bring Android emulator to Model S, upgrade browser to Chrome It does have a mobile connection, but I'd admit it: the only reason I've included this item is for the photo of the cockpit of the Tesla S. WITH A FREAKING 17" DISPLAY LOOKING AT THE DRIVER. Or vice versa, before they wrap themselves around a pole. (more: Droid Life) Latest Articles 4 articles overall. 3 new, 1 updated. Articles updated Windows Phone 7/8 Invasion Game in MonoGame for Windows Phone 8 - Dan Colasanti This article describes my experience porting Invasion from XNA/WP7 to MonoGame/WP8 and includes Invasion's complete source code. New Tips and Tricks added Internet / Network Cross Domain Data Loading with Webix - sonic_youth two techniques to avoid the pitfalls of cross domain data loading: cross-origin resource sharing and JSONP. New Technical Blogs added Book Reviews Mastering Unity 4 Scripting (video series)–A Review - Simon Jackson By the end of this book you should be able to make scrolling backgrounds, clever AI for bad guys, and be able to save / load and change levels in the way Unity3D always wanted you to but forgot to mention. Cross Platform Use Cross-Platform/OSS ExcelDataReader to Read Excel Files with No Dependencies on Office or ACE - John Atten Use cross-platform/OSS ExcelDataReader to read Excel files with no dependencies on Office or ACE. © 2013 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