Month: December 2012
Implementing in-app purchasing in Windows Phone 8
The WindowsPhoneGeek team shows you how to implement in-app purchasing in your WP8 apps. What you sell is still a challenge for you to figure out. But here’s how to sell it.
Happy Holidays from Android
It’s hardly the biggest reveal of the month, but Google’s cheery “Happy Holidays from Android” video served to convey more than the search giant’s heartfelt seasonal message — it’s also the launching ground for a Nexus 10 tablet dock.
Microsoft offers patches to WebKit to aid touch compatibility
The right hand doesn’t know that the left hand is pinching and zooming (and submitting pull requests).
The patch came from Microsoft Open Technologies, a subsidiary company that Microsoft created in April to serve as a home for all of Microsoft’s work and relationships with open source projects and development of open standards.
ThemeRoller for jQuery Mobile
jQuery Mobile provides a cool web tool to help developers create nice themes for their mobile sites. This tool is called the ThemeRoller, http://jquerymobile.com/themeroller/index.php, and it can be utilized by programmers, graphic designers or even novices to create good looking themes for mobile sites.
Windows Store App Development for iOS Developers
The folks at Big Nerd Ranch got together with Microsoft to hold a two-day seminar on Windows Store app development. Whether you’ve done iOS development before or nothing at all, the sessions are now available for watching on Channel 9. So fire up Visual Studio, start watching and get ready to code for Windows Phone and Windows 8. (more: Channel 9)
Best practices for using push notifications, SMS and email in your mobile app
Windows Azure Mobile Services is a great tool for providing back-end communication services for your iOS, Windows Phone and Windows 8 apps. Kirill Gavrylyuk explains some recent improvements in the services along with tips for when push, SMS and email notifications should be used and how you can incorporate them into your apps. (more: Windows Azure)
Design differences between iOS and Windows 8
Learn about the design differences between iOS apps and Windows Store apps, from the perspective of a designer who builds apps for both platforms. (more here)
FloraJS – Simulate natural systems (with javascript)
FloraJS is a JavaScript framework for simulating natural systems. In Flora, the “world” is your web browser.
The code is art 