Topic: Android

Coming Soon: Android Wireless Application Development Review

androidJust got my hands on a copy of Android, Wireless Application Development by Conder and Darcey and have been working my way through the first three chapters (really, the actual development starts in chapter 3).So far so good. Some of the pseudo JVM (Dalvik) takes a little bit of getting used to, but it's not really that bad. I'd say that the real thing that pops out at me is that I want a way of developing iPhone and Android applications at the same time, without having to jump through hoops to do so.

I should have a full review of it up in a week or two.

Which Mobile Platform Should You Target – Other Points of View

Our two part series Which Mobile Platform Should You Target - on web apps and on native apps - generated a fair bit of feedback, especially from those targeting cross platform development.

Here are a few other points of view on the subject - there is certainly no shortage of opinions and angles:

What's your take?

Related Services: iPhone Application Development, Custom Software Development

Which Mobile Platforms Should You Target? (Part 2)

mobilelogos4In the first installment, we covered the simple case, where your application is really a web app, not really using any device features, without local storage, just pulling data from a web application.  This time, we’ll tackle true native applications.

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MetaWidget – Convention over Configuration UI

I already know that I'm not going to do MetaWidget justice as I describe it. What the heck is it? According to the MetaWidget site, it is...

Metawidget takes your domain objects and automatically creates User Interface widgets for them, saving you handcoding your UIs and leaving you to concentrate on stitching together your application.

Think of a configurable form widget driven off of your beans through runtime inspection of properties, getters and setters, annotations, etc.

But wait, there's more. It automatically detects your backend at runtime and makes friends with Hibernate, Spring, Seam, Groovy, etc.
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