CodeProject | Mobile Newsletter - Apple's iOS brings developers 5x more revenue per download than Android

15 articles this week Thursday, November 28, 2013 View online Welcome to this week's Mobile Development newsletter from CodeProject. Advertisements Voice Recognition & Synthesis with the Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK This article covers using the built-in Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK functionality to enable speech recognition. See how easy it is to start recognizing new languages. Start your journey now. Apple's iOS brings developers 5x more revenue per download than Android If they're trained to buy shiny bits of expensive aluminum, they'll likely be willing to clicky-buy on more stuff, I guess. Still, with Android being a bigger chunk of the market, things might just work out even in the end. (more: Apple Insider) Xbox Video launches on the web ahead of Windows Phone version It took them this long to replace all the Zune logos in the software? Ah well, it does seem retro though: no HD, and with a Silverlight plug-in. Party like it's 2003. (more: The Verge) How to use a VirtualBox Android Emulator I've never had the pleasure, but I have heard that the Android emulator is - uhm - sluggish. (I've heard the Intel one is better). But with all those clever Android developers around, you knew they'd come up with a solution. (more: DZone) Take our 3 minute developer survey? Can you help us help you by letting us know about the voodoo that you do so well? BlackBerry increases Android app support I could have sworn that one of the big "features" of the Blackberry 10 series was "support for Android apps", not "you can kind of/sort of run Android apps if you change them". Ugh. Anyone want an example of a company imploding. I think textbooks will be written about RIM/Blackberry in the future. Children will be frightened out of MBA school with stories of the horror. (more: Infoworld) Synchronized cross-device mobile testing I don't usually talk about commercial products here (unless you count the actual mobile devices of course). But this looks to be an interesting bit of kit to help you test your apps on all the devices *at the same time*. (more: HTML5 Rocks) Dropping prices are driving mass smartphone adoption across the world Have you been in public lately? (I was forced to this week as we're travelling) Wow, but there are a lot of people with smart phones out there (and they seem to be permanently attached, but that's another story). And apparently, there will be many more soon. (more: Read Write) 10 Defenses against smartphone theft Bonus #11: Keep rocking the Nokia 3310. Thieves will give you a phone in sympathy (and then steal that). (more: Information Week) Latest Articles 15 articles overall. 3 new, 12 updated. New articles added Android MonoAndroid: Using AlertDialog - ThatsAlok Article demonstrating use of Alert-Dialog in android universe. Product Showcase Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager - Yuriy Loginov Intel's HAXM greatly reduces the emulators boot up time and in my tests the Atom x86 based emulators performed twice as fast as their ARM counterparts Finding performance bottlenecks in Android games and apps using Intel GPA - Ashraf Samy Hegab This article will cover the process of debugging and evaluating Android based games and apps for performance hotspots using Intel's Graphics Performance Analyzers. Articles updated Android MonoAndroid: Using GridView in your mobile application - ThatsAlok Demonstration of Android::GridView MonoAndroid: Using Started Service - ThatsAlok Demonstration of started service. MonoAndroid: Calling secondary activity - ThatsAlok Let's understand calling secondary activity and returning data from it. MonoAndroid: Writing custom generic BaseAdapter in C# - ThatsAlok Using generic BaseAdapter to generate ListView MonoAndroid: Using TabHost in your mobile applications - ThatsAlok TabHost control in MonoAndroid MonoAndroid: Using Fragments in mobile app - ThatsAlok Using Fragments in your mobile application. MonoAndroid: Using dotnet webservice (ASMX) - ThatsAlok Using ASMX webservices in your mobile application. MonoAndroid: Writing ExpandableListView amd BaseExpandableListAdapter in C# - ThatsAlok Creating ExpandableListView and populating it with BaseExpandableListAdapter derived class Charts, Graphs and Images Emoji and web application - Tharaka MTR Emoji; is the Japanese term for the ideograms or smileys used mostly in Japanese electronic messages and webpages. Date and Time Time Period Library for .NET - Jani Giannoudis Extensive time period calculations and individual calendar periods. Tips and Tricks updated Android MonoAndroid: Android Notification service - ThatsAlok Code for providing notification using Android notification service. MonoAndroid: Using bound Services - ThatsAlok Demonstration of Bound Service! © 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