Mobile Newsletter - Microsoft making Windows free on devices with screens under nine inches

9 articles this week Thursday, April 03, 2014 View online Welcome to this week's Mobile Development newsletter from CodeProject. Advertisements Most Powerful, Real-Time Crash Reporting for iOS & Android Spend less time finding & more time fixing crashes. Crashlytics provides deep insights, even the exact line of code your app crashed on. Trusted by apps like Square, Yelp & Path, we offer unlimited developer seats at no cost! Enjoy it on us. Developers.. Developers...Developers... Cisco? That's right. Susie Wee, VP of Cisco's DevNet and company veteran is inviting thousands of developers, both alumni and rookies alike, to Cisco Live in San Francisco - May 19 - 22. Learn about new APIs, tools or join a hackathon. Learn More! Microsoft making Windows free on devices with screens under nine inches Well, that's a start, and probably good news for Windows Phone sales. Still, I wonder if the vendors - who never seem too keen on keeping their phones' OS up-to-date - will allow it. (more: The Verge) 5 things every beginning Android app developer should know Birds. Maybe flappy, maybe angry. But definitely birds. (more: The Next Web) Windows Phone comes to the enterprise Global (and User) policies come to the phone. No Angry Birds for you, says the IT department. (more: ZDNet) Hybrid web applications: the best of all worlds for mobile application Development For many development teams it makes sense to adopt a hybrid approach. Some parts of the app are implemented in native code to aid performance and provide much more fine-grained control over how the software runs on the target platform. Other parts may leverage the rich network-oriented functions of HTML5 to exchange real-time data with servers and allow rapid, seamless updating of the code. The question is how to achieve this in a way that allows easy deployment onto multiple platforms without significant rewrites or porting effort each time. (more: App Developer Magazine) App development quicker on Android than OS rivals – survey It takes less time to develop apps on the Android platform than it does on either iOS or Windows Phone. This is according to Evans Data, a market research firm, after conducting a worldwide survey of 464 mobile app developers. (more: Mobile World Live) Smartphone kill-switch could save consumers $2.6 billion per year Technology that remotely makes a stolen smartphone useless could save American consumers up to $2.6 billion per year if it is implemented widely and leads to a reduction in theft of phones, according to a new report. (more: Infoworld) Smartphone kill-switch could save consumers $2.6 billion per year Native apps command about 86 percent of U.S. consumers' mobile time, or about six times more than the mobile web does, according to a mobile analytics report by Flurry. (more: VentureBeat) Latest Articles 9 articles overall. 7 new, 2 updated. New articles added Android Creating an x86 and ARM* APK using the Intel® Compiler and GNU* gcc - Android on Intel This article provides the step by step instructions on building such 'fat' apk that includes the ISA-independent dex files for Dalvik* virtual machine (Dalvik, 2013) as well as the libraries for different ISA targets. Creating your first HTML5 spaceship game for the Android* OS on Intel® Architecture - Android on Intel If you have a fundamental understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript*, you have all the requisites to start a straightforward project. Intel® Atom™ x86 Image for Android* KitKat 4.4 Installation Instructions - Recommended - Android on Intel This document will guide you through installing the Intel® Atom™ x86 image for Android* KitKat, which can be used for development on Intel's x86 architecture. Using the touch screen in your HTML5 games on Android* devices powered by Intel - Android on Intel In this article we will dive into the touch events API furnished on Android* devices using HTML5. Articles updated Android How to make your Android projects more portable to Windows/MacOS (and vice versa) - Tiancheng Hu Using ThinkAlike, an ongoing Java MVVM framework(employing Android and JavaFX as view layer), to implement a cross-platform HearthStone game card reference and more. Date and Time Time Period Library for .NET - Jani Giannoudis Extensive time period calculations and individual calendar periods. New Tips and Tricks added Windows Phone 7/8 Pay Attention to SystemTray - Houssem_Dellai We'll see how SystemTray properties can help you design nifty apps New Technical Blogs added Android Formatting Dates with Java in Android Applications - Cindy Potvin How to format dates with Java in Android applications Windows Phone 7/8 Getting Started With Windows Phone Development - mako_123 I started developing application for the Windows Phone platform a few months ago. There are a lot of things i learned along the way and i want to share all that with you through a series of blog posts. In the current post, we will focus on the basic and will develop a very simple […] © 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. 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