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December 01, 2010: Android App Ratings

One of the biggest boons to the Android market is the absolute freedom developers have to upload apps to the market. There are no submissions to see if an app one develops is ‘to standards’ to put on the market, only straight uploads. Of course this means that as the user, you are hoping every app you download is what you expect it to be. If you are not paying attention, you may be downloading something you didn’t expect.

November 10, 2010: jQuery Mobile: Hitting more platforms in a single shot

On October 16th, jQuery released their newest in their line of amazing js projects, jQuery Mobile.  What does this mean for us?  A single js library to program web apps for mobile phones without having to code for a specific phone.

October 05, 2010: Stop App Power Drain

We’ve all run into this situation at least once.  We look at our phone and notice we have very little battery life left.  Normally you wouldn’t care had it not been at full charge an hour before, but after searching your task manager, you find that the application you used an hour ago is still running and it’s been eating up your resources needlessly.  That application just cost you the rest of the day’s worth of phone usage.

August 31, 2010: Moving Mobile Apps to the Web

As the demand rises for mobile apps, more and more developers are biting the bullet, so to speak, and trying their hand at developing in yet another environment.  This isn’t necessarily a bad thing since the job of the web developer or software engineer is constantly changing and thus we need to change with it or become obsolete.  But what if we did not have to change this time?

July 28, 2010: HTML in your Droid App?

Using our knowledge of HTML tagging to make quick styling to text views within your Android Application

June 30, 2010: Mobile App Market Research

In my last blog, I noted a few steps you should take when choosing which mobile device to go with to write your application.  The amount of available apps and how to get published are two factors that will affect which market is the one for you.  I will compare the two major ones, iPhone and Android markets, to give you a place to start.

May 26, 2010: First Steps into the Mobile App Ocean

When looking to build your first mobile application, you need to ask yourself some hard questions before you start.  Once you’ve answered these questions, you can use them as your starting, and very basic, framework.

April 21, 2010: Chrome Extensions Web Dev Friendly

Google Extensions provide us with a way to enhance our chrome browsers with additional functions, much the same way that Firefox Add-ons do.  Like Add-ons, the possibilities of apps that we can build are endless.  You might think that with that flexibility, there will be strict rules for how to develop these apps.  That would be an incorrect assumption.