CodeProject | Mobile Newsletter - Apple is falling behind in the smartphone game

1 articles this week Thursday, January 30, 2014 View online Welcome to this week's Mobile Development newsletter from CodeProject. Advertisements Mobile Apps are Dead You're an application artist, but your tools force you to be a code slinger. Another reason why Mobile Apps are Dead. Join the Telerik online keynote on February 12 and learn what comes next. Register today! 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! After Google pressure, Samsung will dial back Android tweaks, homegrown apps It's interesting watching Google trying to play both good and bad cops here. They've released Android "free and clear", but still want to control the releases, and what software looks like. (more: re/code) Working with quota on mobile browsers Just how much can you store locally? The results may interest you (if you're into that kind of thing). (more: HTML5 Rocks) Native or web-based? Selecting the right approach for your mobile app I would have thought the answer was quite obvious. Like just about anything else you could ask about development: "it depends." (more: UX Magazine) 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. The state of mobile development and testing OK, I'm not a huge fan of infographics. Most of the time, they're an excuse for someone to fire up PhotoShop, rather than PowerPoint (and they're about as useful). However, some times (this time possibly), they're more of an excuse to fire up PhotoShop rather than Word (and they actually have useful information). (more: Software Quality Matters Blog) Apple is falling behind in the smartphone game Hasn't everyone who wants a smartphone bought one by now? These year-over-year increases boggle my little mind. Almost makes me want to go out and actually buy a smartphone. Or any mobile. (more: Mashable) Google to keep Motorola's Advanced Technology group, including Project Ara modular phone Well, the sale of Motorola to Lenovo seemed to pop out of the blue, didn't it? Also, it seems to be a very strange deal: bought for $12.5 Billion, sold a year and a half later for about $3 Billion. Less one small (but interesting) group. I hope you'll still be able to get bamboo backs for the Moto X? (more: The Verge) Tips to help get your app promoted in the Windows Phone Store I would imagine that most of these would apply to all of the other stores as well. (more: Windows Phone Developer Blog) Latest Articles 1 articles overall. 0 new, 1 updated. Articles updated Libraries Introduction to Nido (FREE) Framework .NET/ C# - Nirosh Nido Framework with .Net 4.0 and Entity Framework help you standardize your Business Logic Layer (BLL). © 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