CodeProject | Mobile Newsletter - Windows Phone turned the corner in 2013

18 articles this week Thursday, December 19, 2013 View online Welcome to this week's Mobile Development newsletter from CodeProject. Advertisements ThinPic: Photo Shrinking App for Android and iOS. Save space on your device and $ on your data plan by shrinking photo files down to size! ThinPic reduces file sizes up to 70% without sacrificing resolution, display/print dimensions or image quality. Apple to developers: Optimize your apps to iOS 7 by February Well, it's their party (as they're always happy to remind people) so I suppose people should have seen this coming. Supposedly, iOS7 has about 80% market share these days, so you won't be flipping too many people off (more: Read Write) A full-featured, $38 tablet is coming to the U.S. Really, how is this even possible? Even with insane volume discounts, I'd expect that the parts are more than $38. (more: Wall Street Journal) You won't be compelled to buy the Nokia Lumia 2520 after seeing this ad I get it: marketing well is hard. But how many people saw this and said, "Yes, that's what we want". Or were they just thinking (correctly, apparently) that it would be so bad people would pass it around? (more: Beta News) Windows Phone turned the corner in 2013 Still a long way to go, but being #3 is a great position for Microsoft: it means that they'll actually keep trying. The addition/control of Nokia next year should definitely help. (more: Windows Supersite) Android in 2014: What to expect 'Tis the season for "Top y of 2013" and "y in 2014" articles. Will 2014 lead to a better Android UI? A tie-in with Mars bars? Time will tell, but now's the time to guess. (more: News.com) Xbox Video app finally arrives on Windows Phone I'm surprised it took this long, but I guess it does take a while to scrape all the Zune logos off of it. (more: The Verge) Why do I spend time on great design? To double my app downloads Not just for mobile, but just good advice: make your apps look (and work) well. As a certain company tends to demonstrate, people will forgive more if things look and feel good. (more: Windows Phone Blog) Latest Articles 18 articles overall. 9 new, 9 updated. New articles added Android Using Advanced Intel® C++ Compiler Features for Android* Applications - Android on Intel Intel® Cilk™ Plus is an extension to C and C++ that offers a quick and easy way to harness the power of both multicore and vector processing. Using SIMD Technologies on Intel® Architecture to Speed Up Game Code - Android on Intel In this article, we will look at matrix multiplication and use "The Last Defender," the Android*-based, 3D shooting game popular in the PRC, as a practical case to describe how to use one of SIMD technologies for Intel® Architecture (IA): Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions (Intel® SSE[XX]) and Supple Changing the default compiler back from Intel C++ Compiler to GCC for x86 targets - Android on Intel A step by step process on how to change the default compiler back from Intel C++ Compiler to GCC for x86 targets Dual Video Android* Apps Using Intel® WiDi Technology Whitepaper - Android on Intel This sample demonstrates how to use the Presentation class to display video content on an external display using Intel® WiDi technology. Connecting to Google Drive* from an Android* App - Android on Intel This sample demonstrates how to connect to an individual's Google Drive* online storage service from an Android application. Options for Releasing Native Android* Apps for Intel® Architecture (x86) - Android on Intel This article introduces some existing options to package Android NDK applications by analyzing some specific example applications chosen from Google Play. Book Reviews Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API - Shaun Wilde A review of the book "Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API" Cryptography & Security Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) SHA-1 - Don Fizachi A C# implementation of the SCRAM SHA-1 (RFC 5802) authentication protocol. Libraries Introduction to Nido Framework .NET/ C# - Nirosh Nido Framework with .Net 4.0 and Entity Framework help you standardize your Business Logic Layer (BLL). Articles updated Android An ObjectEditor for Android - Serge Desmedt An ObjectEditor as a custom ExpandableListView ASP.NET ASP.NET WebAPI: Getting Started with MVC4 and WebAPI - Monjurul Habib ASP.NET Web API is a framework for building and consuming HTTP services that can reach a broad range of clients including browsers, phones, and tablets. Client side scripting Right Before Your Eyes - dgDavidGreene Make your page come alive with Knockout.js, Bootstrap, and Google Charts. General Graphics ExifLib - A Fast Exif Data Extractor for .NET 2.0+ - Simon McKenzie Reads JPEG Exif data without the heavyweight and unnecessary instantiation of GDI+ objects. Mobile Development TaskTracker Offline Web Application for Mobile using HTML5/jQuery/KnockoutJS - gokuldas Task Tracker is an offline web application developed using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Real-time SPC Web Application for iPad/Android tablet using jQuery/AJAX/AJAX enabled WCF Service - gokuldas Real time SPC is a Web Application for iPad and Androind using HTML5 and jQuery AJAX. Technical Blogs updated ASP.NET Detailed Tutorial for Building ASP.NET WebAPI RESTful Service - Taiseer Joudeh A sample eLearning system API which follows best practices for building RESTful API using Microsoft technology stack. Web Services Building ASP.NET Web API RESTful Service – Part 1 - Taiseer Joudeh This is the first part of Building ASP.Net Web API RESTful Service Series. Building ASP.NET Web API RESTful Service – Part 8 - Taiseer Joudeh This is the eight part of Building ASP.Net Web API RESTful Service Series. The topics we’ll cover are: Building the Database Model using Entity Framework Code First – Part 1. Applying the Repository Pattern for the Data Access Layer – Part 2. Getting started with ASP.Net Web API - © 2013 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. 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