CodeProject | Mobile Newsletter - Worldwide spending on mobile game apps tripled in 2013 to $16B

5 articles this week Thursday, February 20, 2014 View online Welcome to this week's Mobile Development newsletter from CodeProject. Advertisements 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! No Graphic Designer? No Problem! Iron Speed Designer is the fastest way to deliver feature-rich applications for .NET, SharePoint and software-as-a-service cloud computing environments. Amaze users with visually stunning applications that look like they took months to build. Download a Trial! Malware-infected Android apps spike in the Google Play store Open is always better, right? Ah well, at least they'll be caught by Google's stringent Play guidelines and testing. /sigh Of course, before I start laughing too hard, "Apps in Apple's store were not analyzed." (more: Computer World) First Ubuntu phones to launch in 2014 Not sure which - if any - carriers will pick them up, though. I suppose the good thing is that porting from Ubuntu desktop might be easy, but coming into a two horse race (with three other nags already following far behind) seems a silly thing. (more: Tech world) Worldwide spending on mobile game apps tripled in 2013 to $16B That number boggles my mind. If everyone on earth bought one 99 cent app, it wouldn't be enough. Some people are really buying stuff! (I so need to write a mobile game or five to get on this gravy train) (more: Venture Beat) 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. The man behind Android++ Money quote: "Visual Studio is actually very flexible and could support development on a number of different platforms." Yeah, sure would be nice... (more: SD Times) New website helps users opt out of smartphone tracking Instead, you can be tracked by a site you registered at to avoid tracking (more: ZDNet) PayPal opens up mobile SDK to developers across the world "THIS IS YOUR GOD" (more: Read Write) Debunking four myths about Android, Google, and open-source Several stories recently have spread misinformation about how Google licenses Android and its services. Here's the real story on how Android licensing works with open source and Linux. (more: ZDNet) Latest Articles 5 articles overall. 3 new, 2 updated. New articles added .NET Framework Home Automation with Microsoft Kinect Point Cloud and Speech Recognition - Dan Thyer Use a Microsoft Kinect to control the home automation in the house. Lights can be turned on an off from speech recognition or from pointing at them and waving your other hand one way to turn on and the other way to turn off. Android Android Sensor Fusion Tutorial - Paul Lawitzki This article presents one approach to increase the quality of rotation information gathered from different sensor sources using a simple sensor fusion algorithm, specifically on an Android device. iPhone 2d Textures in cocos2d-x V3 - _Maxxx_ Well it wasn’t as easy as I thought it was going to be, but I managed to get a version of my scrolling texture program working under cocos2d-x V3 Beta 2. I set up cocos2d-x v3 as in my previous … Continue reading → Articles updated Date and Time Time Period Library for .NET - Jani Giannoudis Extensive time period calculations and individual calendar periods. Tips and Tricks updated Android Reject and Accept an Incoming Call - Yildirim Kocdag This article helps you to reject and accept an incoming call for your Android device with functions. © 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