DotNetSlackers Latest ASP.NET News in Category Mobile

An introduction to Unity3D - A 30 minute getting started guide

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

A number of times I've mentioned Unity3D, usually with the assumption that you all knew what it was, how to get it and how to use it. Well you know what they say about when you "assume" something...That's why today's post caught my eye. It's not "code" per-se (though there is a little C#!) instead it's a easy, simple and fairly short introduction to Unity3D.Introduction to Unity3DUnity3D is a powerful cross-platform 3D engine and a user-friendly development environment. Learn how Unity3D can help...

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How to make money from you Windows Phone app free webinar. Sign-up now! Check out the prizes.

the telerik blogs — Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Its official. Building top-notch mobile app that generates actual revenue takes more than a smart idea, developers skills, excellent tools and nice implementation. The app needs promotion and you as a developer need to take advantage of every potential opportunity for making money.

Join us for our free webinar where well talk about how to make money from your Windows Phone app. Well cover topics such as: the composite parts of a mobile app; discoverability of the app, best methods for monetization and best methods for re-engagement.

Were co-hosting the webinar with Tapjoy, a company offering a mobile advertising and publishing platform that has reached more than 500 million mobile users since its launch in 2007. Tapjoys turnkey in-app advertising platform helps developers acquire cost-effective, high-value new users and monetize their applications, while its powerful advertising marketplace lets brand advertisers reach a global mobile audience spanning more than 10,000 applications.

Weve also prepared great prizes. Well have a ruffle at the end of the webinar and 10 lucky guys will win free subscriptions for the marketplace, for new unregistered developers. The tokens work once and only waive the first years fee of $99. Developers can redeem on http://create.msdn.com when they sign up for a new account. Other 3 lucky winners will go home with a free license for RadControls for Windows Phone.

Learn more details about the webinar and secure your seat now!

Another resource on the subject you can check is our whitepaper on How to promote your Windows Phone app on a budget. Download the whitepaper for free from here.

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An introduction to cross-platform mobile development technologies

The Code Project Latest Articles — Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Smartphones and tablets are becoming ubiquitous, and, with them, mobile apps. But what does the proliferation of different devices mean for developers entering the market? Do you target a single platform, build your app twice for iOS and Android, or use a cross-platform framework?...

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What makes a marketer of a toolset for building Windows Phone apps happy?

the telerik blogs — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

It is news like this one: two of the four apps that won the big prize of the 30 to Launch competition are built with RadControls for Windows Phone - the product our team is building with so much care.

And the apps are:
Play the hunt built by Eshy Media
Social Mints built by Techark. Social Mints was also the winner of Core77's FastTrack to the Mobile App International Design Award and was featured at Mobile World Congress 2012.

We are extremely excited about this win as there were more than 130 apps submitted for the contest, said Pratik Kothari from Techark.

And So Am I. Because our customers apps success is our teams ultimate reward.

If you want to try how RadControls for Windows Phone can improve your app or help you create a new one, download a free trial from here.

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eLearning event on HTML5 for Mobile with jQuery Mobile - May 17

Wallace B. McClure — Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

I'll be doing an eLearning event on HTML5 for Mobile with jQuery Mobile. There will also be a few items sprinkled in on ASP.NET Razor. Mobile development is a hot item. Customers are buying iPhones, iPads, Android devices, and many other mobile computing devices at an ever increasing record pace. Devices based on iOS and Android are nearly 80 percent of the marketplace. RIM continues to be dominant in the business area across the world. Nokia's growth with Windows Phone will grow on a worldwide...

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Leading BOF Session on Building SenchaTouch 2.0 App Coming to Mountain View May 25, 2012

peterkellner.net — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Im leading a 3 hour hands on lab titled "MindSource Birds of a Feather 55 (BoF) – Developing Mobile Applications using SenchaTouch 2.0" on May 23rd in Mountain View California. This is our first go around this so we are limiting attendance so if you are interested, youll need to sign up asap. The URL [...]...

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Apache Cordova. A new alternative for developing native apps in Win Phone 7

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Apache Cordova is one of those projects that recently caught my attention for developing applications in mobile. This project previously known as PhoneGap was donated by Adobe to the Apache Foundation to be part of a new and attractive open source alternative for developing mobile applications. If you havent heard of it before, it basically provides the required infrastructure to run native applications in different mobile platforms such as IOS, Android, and Windows Phone 7 using an hybrid...

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What Makes a Good Enterprise Mobile App Store?

Chris Love's Official Blog - Professional ASP.NET — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

This year is looking like the year enterprises execute a radical shift when it comes to mobile strategies to keep up with the consumerization their employees are forcing. This means organizations of all sizes, from small shops to multi-national behemoths...(read more)...

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Mobilism browser panel live-streamed

QuirksBlog — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

In about two hours, at 16:50 CET, Mobilism will live-stream the mobile browser panel.Moderated by Jeremy Keith, the panel features representatives of BlackBerry, Opera, Nokia, and Google. Just like last year they will discuss the state of the mobile browsers.So follow our live-stream for an update on the mobile browser world.Incidentally, tomorrow we will live-stream our entire programme from 13:00-16:00, including the device/network API panel, Seb Lee-Delisle, and Jake Archibald. So tune in if you...

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C.M.S. Redefined: Cloud. Mobile. Social.

Joe Brinkman — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Almost exactly one year ago I posted a blog which highlighted the three most pervasive technological trends in the software industry and predicted that the Content Management market was in for a significant disruption in the coming years as it attempts to get comfortable with these new technologies. This same blog was republished with Bryan Rubys permission on the CMS Report website. This morning I kicked off Day 2 at CMS Expo in Chicago, IL with a mini-keynote on this same topic. But rather than...

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Mobile Design Pattern Gallery: UI Patterns for Mobile Applications

Chris Love's Official Blog - Professional ASP.NET — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

There are not a lot of books on mobile development I have found to be that helpful so far. Recently I purchased the O'Reilly published Mobile Design Pattern Gallery book and want to recommend it. Its not a book deep in technical details, but rather a...(read more)...

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Kendo UI says Namaste to Indian Developers

the telerik blogs — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Kendo UI is a client side HTML5 framework for building modern web and mobile applications. It Kendo UI Mobile delivers unique adaptive rendering to build hybrid mobile apps that automatically transform to the native look-and-feel of iOS, Android and BlackBerry from a single codebase.

MUGH stands for Microsoft User Group of Hyderabad one of the most passionate developer community groups you could meet. The occasion that MUGH provided us was DevCon 2012.

Svetlina Anati and Abhishek Kant introduced Kendo UI to the community. They covered the capabilities of the Kendo UI like the MVVM framework and hardware-accelerated data visualization widgets such as animated charts and graphs. They demonstrated the way to build Hybrid Mobile applications that adapt to the native look-and-feel of iOS, Android and BlackBerry with Kendo UI mobile.

Seeing that people understand the value it adds to development process was a true pleasure for us. We spent time answering questions and discussing feedback until we really had to leave astonished that the time had passed very quickly!

What happens next:

K-MUG (Kerala Microsoft User Group) on May 19th 2012
KolkataGeeks on May 26th 2012
Delhi Tech Forum on July 14th 2012

Sharing our work with other professionals and feeling the appreciation for your work is what really inspires us to strive to do our best! Meeting with MUGH took our inspiration to the next level.

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Displaying an Android Device`s Screen on your Desktop

Chris Love's Official Blog - Professional ASP.NET — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

I do a lot of presentations and online demonstrations of mobile clients these days. That means I need to share screens from all sorts of devices. The problem is none of the major mobile platforms make this easy, but there are some hacks to get you there....(read more)...

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All aboard for Mobilism

QuirksBlog — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

In eight days the Mobilism workshops will take place, and in nine days the main conference will start. If you plan on coming, now would be a good time to buy your ticket.So far we have about 320 attendees who have decided our programme is good enough to come to Amsterdam for. And let’s face it, if your job involves the mobile web in any way you cannot afford to miss the sessions byHorace Dediu,Remy Sharp,Jason Grigsby,Stephen Hay,Scott Jenson,the browser panel and device/network API panels moderated...

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MoBeers slides

QuirksBlog — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Yesterday’s MoBeers slides are up.This is the second draft of my Viewports presentations, and it has evolved somewhat since my talk in San Francisco last Friday.I’ll still be in the US for a week and will still talk at Breaking Development about the Mobile Browser World. See you there?...

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US tour slides so far

QuirksBlog — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Three legs of my US tour are now done and dusted. Here are links to my slides, and the rest of my schedule. At An Event Apart Seattle I talked about the touch events. The slides are on the AEA website, and not on mine, for once. At the SF HTML5 gathering I talked about viewports for the very first time. Here are my slides. During my workshop I repeated two presentations: first the Mobile Browser World one I also did at Paris Web in October, and then the Touch Events I did at AEA.Two more public talks...

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Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone Unboxing

JohnPapa.net — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

I just activated my Nokia Lumia 900 running the latest Windows Phone OS. I purchased the cyan colored Lumia or blue to me Ill post a thorough review later after I get more hands on time with it, but this post is all about first impressions. In short WOW! Tip: Click on the photos for the full size versions. If you want to see my activation process experience, you can check it out here. It arrived on time, as promised from ATT Wireless, via FedEx. Here is the phone inside the box and then a closeup...

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Final Mobilism line-up notes

QuirksBlog — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

On 10th and 11th of May the second edition of Mobilism will take place in Amsterdam. Like last year, it will concentrate on all aspects of the mobile web.The Mobilism line-up is complete now. We have one more item to announce: a device/network API panel featuring representatives from W3C, PhoneGap, and Blue Via to discuss how web developers will get access to phone functionality such as the address book and the camera, as well as access to payment systems that tie in with the mobile operator.These...

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eLearning event on HTML5 for Mobile with jQuery Mobile

Wallace B. McClure — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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Mobile Device Detection and Redirection Improvements Coming Soon

Shaun Walker — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

With mobile device usage expected to eclipse traditional desktop usage by 2015, companies worldwide are looking for ways to adapt and to provide personalized, relevant experiences to site visitors on all types of devices. In response to this market demand, in November 2011 we introduced an exciting new platform capability as part of DotNetNuke 6.1, mobile device detection and redirection management. This announcement was made at our annual user conference, DNN World, and it generated a ton of excitement...

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