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Basic steps for upgrading Android source code from SDK 1.5 to 2.1 using Eclipse IDE

This is a step by step guide to upgrade one’s source code that was developed for an earlier version of android SDK, as is to work on a new version of ...

1 replies - 4035 views - 08/26/11 by Sai Geetha M N in News

Tiggr, a Web-Based IDE for Building Mobile Apps: 15 Reasons Why It Deserves Your Attention

Tiggr is a Web-based IDE for building mobile Web and native apps. Today I’d like to givel you 14 reasons why this new-of-a-kind IDE deserves your attention....

0 replies - 8654 views - 08/25/11 by Max Katz in Articles

John Gruber says iOS is an insecure platform

Speaking about Apple’s upcoming deprecation of iOS’ UDID (the mechanism by which applications can identify users devices (I was wrong about that)...

4 replies - 3512 views - 08/25/11 by Cedric Beust in News

Beautiful Android design - more visually appealing apps

Amount of beautiful apps in Android Market has steadily increased in the last months. I think that more and more companies are reacting to the massive...

1 replies - 6213 views - 08/24/11 by Juhani Lehtimaki in News

The story of Android, cryptography and a crippled 3DES

Asymmetric and symmetric encryption, different algorithms (AES/DES), block/stream ciphers, operation modes - all of these terms are difficult enough on their...

2 replies - 5335 views - 08/24/11 by Krzysztof Kotowicz in News

Daily Dose: Amazon Reveals New In-Memory Caching System "ElastiCache"

Amazon's new ElastiCache web service provides a fast, managed, in-memory caching system that is "protocol compliant with MemCached". The new service...

0 replies - 18664 views - 08/23/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Project spotlight: Pull down to refresh ( like the official Twitter client )

Hey all, and welcome to a new category of Programmer XR called: Project spotlight! In this category i will highlight original and functional (open source)...

0 replies - 4813 views - 08/20/11 by Mark Mooibroek in News

Swiping + panning = usability problem

I've written about implementing horizontal swiping as navigation between content and about workspaces UI design pattern before. It is a very a very...

0 replies - 3712 views - 08/19/11 by Juhani Lehtimaki in News

Daily Dose: The End is Nigh - IBM Builds Cognitive Computing Chips

The brilliant engineers and scientists over at Cyberdyne Systems IBM introduced the "first computing core that combines digital 'neurons' and on-chip...

2 replies - 23494 views - 08/18/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Firefox Drops Version Numbers

Today, Mozilla's community coordinator Asa Dotzler announced that future Firefox users will not be shown their browser's version number. Despite complaints and...

8 replies - 24813 views - 08/16/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Android Security Issues - A By-Product of Using Open-Source?

A lot of talk has been circulating lately about security issues in Android. Should anyone really be surprised to discover that an Open-Source system is not...

0 replies - 1765 views - 08/16/11 by Dany Amiouny in Articles

Deleting and Removing Android Applications Deployed on Emulator

First, make sure the emulator is running. Then follow below steps: 1. Go to the tools directory in command prompt – c:\>android\tools 2. Type...

0 replies - 4582 views - 08/13/11 by Sai Geetha M N in News

How APIs can support good design - a wish list to Google

In recent TechCrunch's Mobile First CrunchUps panel there was a discussion about why iOS apps look better then Android apps. The panel's...

1 replies - 4076 views - 08/10/11 by Juhani Lehtimaki in News

Hurry, You Only Have 16ms to Render Everything!

So I’ve been working on my new game and I’m doing some tweaks here and there on the engine. Mainly with the rendering section, trying to squeeze as...

1 replies - 4223 views - 08/09/11 by David Amador in News

5 tips for converting iOS UI to Android

Making your app look like it belongs into an Android phone Many companies are converting their iOS apps to Android nowadays. However, simple one-to-one...

1 replies - 8416 views - 08/06/11 by Juhani Lehtimaki in News