CodeProject | Mobile Newsletter - Three steps for improving mobile UX

3 articles this week Thursday, February 06, 2014 View online Welcome to this week's Mobile Development newsletter from CodeProject. Advertisements Mobile Apps are Dead Are you ready for what comes next? Hint: you'll no longer have to choose between a web, native or hybrid approach. Join Telerik on February 12, when we reveal the future of app development. Space is limited, so register now to save your spot! 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! Facebook releases "Conceal," a lightweight tool to make Android apps safer Easy, and encryption? The only way I usually see those two works in the same sentence is, "You can't make encryption easy." (more: Ars Technica) Google data shows that less than 2% of Android users have migrated to KitKat To most users' credit: they often can't upgrade their OS without buying a new phone. The carriers either don't send out the upgrades, or people just don't know enough to upgrade (look at the IE numbers for another example, and upgrading the OS on a phone takes more skill). (more: BGR) BoltsFramework Bolts is a collection of low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier. (more: Github) HTML5 Mobile App Development with PhoneGap If you know the basics of HTML, CSS and Javascript, you are well on your way to creating engaging mobile applications - without learning the native toolkits for Android, iOS or even Windows 8. Find out how here. Three steps for improving mobile UX Remember the days when the devs argued with the designers to get the screens as wide as possible (so they could fit more fields on the database entry screen)? Yeah. Great times. (more: UX Magazine) Announcing Sencha Space The rapid adoption of mobile technology and users bringing their own devices to work (aka BYOD) puts pressure on organizations to deliver mobile versions of apps that deliver critical functionality. Increasingly, organizations rely more on a virtual extended workforces, made up of partners, contractors, and other external collaborators who require access to sensitive data and applications. Sencha Space enables organizations to deploy applications to anyone without having to control their device. (more: Sencha) Unbelievable: BlackBerry's browser is actually the fastest of any mobile platform Too bad no one noticed until now. Oh well, maybe they can port all that speed over to the other devices. Everyone knows there's a drastic shortage of browsers. (more: Venture Beat) Apple and Samsung now own more than two-thirds of the US smartphone market: comScore Sadly, Windows Phone took a bit of a dip, but one that hardly looks statistically significant. Blackberry continues its roar back to domination (in someone's dreams). (more: ZDNet) Latest Articles 3 articles overall. 2 new, 1 updated. New articles added Android Google Play In-App Billing Demo App - Uzi Granot This article is an example of Google Play In-App Billing Version 3. The attached TestInAppBilling source code is a complete demo application. 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 Windows Phone 7/8 Selecting Phone Book Contacts in Windows Phone using MVVM - AnobikDey The article describes how to select all the contacts in Windows Phone 7 and 8 © 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