CodeProject | Mobile Newsletter - Windows Phone 8.1 rumors emerge

6 articles this week Thursday, October 10, 2013 View online Welcome to this week's Mobile Development newsletter from CodeProject. Advertisements View more than 300 file types on the go! Prizm Content Connect's zero footprint HTML5 document viewer displays Microsoft Office files, PDFs, images and more, with no apps or plugins on the client--all 300 file types display right in the browser! 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. Crackberry withdrawal: BlackBerry's collapse leaves users struggling to switch And across the void, a million thumbs cry out. I'm assuming that this story ends with someone buying them and pushing that keyboard onto something. Then again, I've heard a similar story in the past: hot keyboard phone company bought by someone. Kin. Whatever happened to them? (more: The Verge) Mozilla and partners to kick off second round of Firefox OS launches in more markets around the world Yes, we *totally* needed a fifth smart phone OS. (there's supposed to be some sarcasm mark here). Still, it might be interesting to see if it has a chance - it's open source (Linux-based and HTML5 everywhere), so the phone companies might be interested. (more: Mozilla) Google: Don't fear Android malware Sure, why not? What's the worst that can happen? Data loss, embarrassment, theft. Sure, according to Google, only 0.001% of apps downloaded by Android users pose any harm to their devices or data. So, it's like a nice easy game of Russian Roulette. (more: Information Week) 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! Google brings Mobile Backend Starter, its one-click deployable cloud backend for Android, to iOS Seems like a kind of cool way of plopping a "Cloud" back end into a system, plus the source is available. You get pub/sub, authentication, and notifications in one swell foop. The only problem (IMO) is that you need to use the Google AppEngine as part of the back end. (more: The Next Web) Samsung debuts first curved-screen phone, the Galaxy Round At last! The tyranny of flat phones has been conquered. Now we can get back to that world peace thing. OK, I get it: technically difficult. But... did we need this? Are people clamouring that flat phones just don't fit in their hands properly? Gah and blah. (more: All Things D) Microsoft to bring new Remote Desktop apps to iOS, OS X At last! (For reals on this one) I have so wanted this for so long as other solutions (read VNC) is verboten at one customer I have. Besides, who doesn't like administering remote computers using their phone? (more: Apple Insider) Windows Phone 8.1 rumors emerge Improvements continue: 77% API parity with the desktop version, possibly bigger screens, and THE ABILITY TO CLOSE APPS MANUALLY. Mango zitango, you need this upgrade! (more: Windows Supersite) Latest Articles 6 articles overall. 3 new, 3 updated. Articles updated Android A GPS Location Plotting Android Application - Raja.D.Singh Develop an Android application that plots user location on a map continuously. 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. New Tips and Tricks added Android Android:SharedPreference - Satyam A. How to use SharedPreference to store information in key-value pair in Android Palm and WebOS Extracting SMS \ Text Messages from Palm Pre (WebOS 2.x.x) - Pradeep Shukla This tip will lay down the steps how to extract the text messages from palm phones. Tips and Tricks updated Windows Phone 7/8 Add Multiple Pushpins to Map in a Customized Way on Windows Phone 8 - NitinShrivastava In this tip, we will discuss a quick way of how to locate a point in the Map and then adding a customized pushpin to these locations through a sample XML. New Technical Blogs added Android Developing Android Apps using C# - Raymund Macaalay If you love C# and want to create an Android application using that language then you have to thank Xamarin as they created this great Cross Platform development tool which enables developers to develop iOS and Android apps in C# language.  © 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