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How Software Engineering Principles Apply to App Development

By chco : 21 September 2011 - 08:06 AM
Some of the tenets and techinques used in software engineering can as well be applied to app development. The following excerpt from the recent publication App Inventor will offer some insight. Here a...
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Near field communication: What it is and how it works

By howardhwen : 01 August 2011 - 06:49 AM
Phone and credit card may soon become phone or credit card thanks to near field communication (NFC). And that's just the beginning — NFC could ...
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How to Create Your First Flex Mobile Project

By chco : 29 July 2011 - 01:30 PM
This excerpt from the O'Reilly publication Developing Android Applications with Flex 4.5 will walk you through building your first AIR on Android application using Adobe Flash Builder 4.5. If you ...
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How to Connect Your Xoom to the VPN

By chco : 26 July 2011 - 12:45 AM
A virtual private network (VPN) is a kind of virtual tunnel that lets authorized people into the network, while blocking everyone else. This excerpt from the O'Reilly publication Motorola Xoom: Th...
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How to Turn Your Xoom into a Wi-Fi Hotspot

By chco : 24 July 2011 - 10:10 AM
The documentation you receive with new hardware and software often leave something to be desired. Sometimes it helps to have another resource. The following O'Reilly publication Motorola Xoom: The...
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How to navigate the pages of your app with jQuery Mobile

By chco : 01 July 2011 - 07:09 AM
jQuery Mobile is a touch-optimized web framework for creating apps that look and behave consistently across many devices. The following excerpt from jQuery Mobile explains the page navigation options,...
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How to style buttons with jQuery Mobile

By chco : 28 June 2011 - 04:48 AM
The future belongs to mobile web apps that function on a broad range of smartphones and tablets. The excerpt below from jQuery Mobile helps you get started with jQuery Mobile, the touch-optimized web ...
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How to handle threads in Android, and what you need to watch for

By chco : 14 May 2011 - 10:11 PM
The excerpt below from Learning Android offers a look at working with threads in Android. A thread is a sequence of instructions executed in order. Although each CPU can process only one instruction a...
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Two Ways to Create a User Interface for the Android

By chco : 12 May 2011 - 04:56 PM
There are two ways to create a user interface (UI) in Android. One is declarative, and the other one is programmatic. They are quite different but often are used together to get the job done. The foll...
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Android Programming: Understanding the Activity Life Cycle

By chco : 11 May 2011 - 12:05 AM
The following excerpt from Learning Android will help you understand how activities and the Activity Manager are used for Android programming.An activity is usually a single screen that the user sees ...
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