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Archive: 11-2011

• Working with reminders in Windows Phone 7

  Windows Phone 7 Mango adds functionality that allows developers to create reminders and scheduled items. Here’s how to use the feature in your WP7 apps.

  Posted by Justin James | November 29, 2011, 9:21 PM PST

• A context enabled grid view layout for Android

  Android developer William Francis presents a step-by-step tutorial on his context aware grid view layout.

  Posted by William J. Francis | November 28, 2011, 2:51 PM PST

• Don’t overload mobile apps with features

  We want to hear from app developers about whether they agree that a number of mobile applications have too many features.

  Posted by Mary Weilage | November 26, 2011, 11:47 PM PST

• Implications of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for app developers

  Developer Kyle Miller explains why Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich has him confused about the future of his current apps.

  Posted by Kyle Miller | November 26, 2011, 10:18 PM PST

• Android’s BatteryManager and ProgressBar two-for-one tutorial

  Android developer William Francis shows how to combine the BatteryManager class with the ProgressBar class to get a functional battery monitor with only a few lines of code.

  Posted by William J. Francis | November 22, 2011, 10:10 PM PST

• Find an audience for your app in online forums

  Forum marketing can lead to valuable insights into aspects of your app that you might not have considered. Get the basics about this guerrilla marketing tactic.

  Posted by Steve Dryall | November 19, 2011, 11:24 PM PST

• Create a lightweight version of PhoneGap in Android

  In this PhoneGap tutorial, mobile developer Kyle Miller presents some tricks about how to use WebViews in Android and more.

  Posted by Kyle Miller | November 17, 2011, 9:55 PM PST

• AnDevCon II: Less hectic and more focused than Google I/O

  Android developer William Francis shares his impressions of AnDevCon II, including which keynotes and courses he found most engaging and practical.

  Posted by William J. Francis | November 16, 2011, 11:12 AM PST

• Demise of mobile Flash may accelerate growth of mobile Web

  Writing applications that run in a browser, instead of the native OS, changed the way the world viewed PC software. The end of mobile Flash may be a precursor to the same revolution on mobile devices.

  Posted by Ken Hardin | November 10, 2011, 4:49 PM PST

• Using Android’s AsyncTask to handle long-running I/O

  Long-running I/O is one of the keys to managing state in Android apps. William Francis describes how to use an extension of AsyncTask to handle long-running I/O.

  Posted by William J. Francis | November 9, 2011, 9:34 AM PST