Mobile Apps
Mobile Web App Development
- Multiple Views and DisplayMode Providers in ASP.NET MVC 4. Explains DisplayModeProvider and DefaultDisplayMode in great detail.
- HTML5 Vs. Native Mobile Apps: Myths and Misconceptions. Published 1/23/2013. Advocates the hybrid approach to building mobile apps.
- How to Develop Mobile App Software. Simple TODO list.
- Guidelines For Mobile Web Development. Published 7/2/2012.
- Sencha Touch - Build Mobile Web Apps with HTML5. Sencha Touch, a high-performance HTML5 mobile application framework, is the cornerstone of the Sencha HTML5 platform. Built for enabling world-class user experiences, Sencha Touch is the only framework that enables developers to build powerful apps that work on iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and more.
- Mobile Apps & Sites with ASP.NET. ASP.NET can also power mobile applications with responsive design frameworks like Twitter Bootstrap included out of the box with VS2013. You can use any CSS framework or open grid system you prefer, or perhaps select a powerful mobile system like jQuery Mobile or Sencha and great mobile applications with PhoneGap. The choice is yours, it’s all possible with ASP.NET.
- ASP.NET Tutorial. ASP.NET is a development framework for building web pages and web sites with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and server scripting. ASP.NET supports three different development models: Web Pages, MVC (Model View Controller), and Web Forms.
- How To: Add Mobile Pages to Your ASP.NET Web Forms / MVC Application.
- Develop Hybrid Native and Mobile Web Apps. Published March 2012. MSDN Magazine article.
- Hybrid Mobile Apps with ASP.NET MVC. Published March 12, 2013. InfoQ.
- Windows Azure: Announcing Major Improvements for Dev/Test in the Cloud. Published 6/3/2013.
- No Charge for Stopped VMs
- Pay by the Minute Billing
- MSDN Use Rights now supported on Windows Azure
- Heavily Discounted MSDN Dev/Test Rates
- MSDN Monetary Credits
- Portal Support for Better Tracking MSDN Monetary Credit Usage
- Deploy an ASP.NET MVC Mobile Web Application on Windows Azure Web Sites. Windows Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform.
- Building Web Apps with ASP.NET - Jump Start. Published February, 2013. Channel 9 videos. Three of Microsoft's most seasoned ASP.NET speakers, Scott Hanselman, Jon Galloway, and Damian Edwards provide an accelerated introduction to building modern web applications with ASP.NET 4.5 and ASP.NET MVC 4. In this course, they target key scenarios like building mobile-ready websites, social web applications as well as modern HTML5 browser features.
- Developing HTML5 Apps - Jump Start. Published October, 2012. Channel 9 videos. Microsoft Technical Evangelists Jeremy Foster and Michael Palermo deliver an accelerated introduction to HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript and serves as an entry point for both Web application and Windows Store apps training paths. Topics include how to: implement programming logic; define and use variables; perform looping and branching; develop user interfaces; capture and validate user input; store data; and create well-structured applications.
- Media Queries. Ideas on how resized websites should look.
- Setting up for ASP.NET MVC 4 and Mobile Web Development. Published 4/11/2013.
- Mobile Apps & Sites with ASP.NET. Microsoft site.
- ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile Features. August 15, 2012.
- ASP.NET MVC 4 Overview - Part 2: Default template changes and Adaptive Rendering using Viewport and CSS Media Queries.
Mobile App Development for iPad, Android, Windows 8
- ASP.NET Web API: The New Mobile Web Services. Posted 6/4/2012.
- Develop HTML5 Windows Phone Apps with Apache Cordova. Published May, 2012. This article introduces Apache Cordova, a framework for creating cross-platform mobile applications using HTML5 and JavaScript.
- Confessions of a Windows Phone User. Posted 10/14/2013. Microsoft has notched double-digit market share in a number of European countries and has managed to outsell the iPhone in India and much of Latin America. This momentum could continue through the rest of the year with more devices expected to arrive from Nokia at various prices.
- Windows Phone update targets 'phablets'. Posted 10/14/2013.
- Windows Phone Central. News on Windows Phone marketshare around the world.
- Microsoft claims nearly 5% of tablet marketshare. This is as of Q2 1013. Android - 67%, iOS (Apple) 28.3%, and Windows 4.5%. This is not bad considering Windows 8 tablets first came out at the end of October, 2012.
- How Much Do Average Apps Make? Posted 8/10/2013. Not much on average, is the bottom line.
- How to develop Windows Store apps.
- Getting started developing apps for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8.
- Android development,
- Android Development Tools. The tools run under Eclipse. Eclipse is a multi-language Integrated development environment (IDE) comprising a base workspace and an extensible plug-insystem for customizing the environment. It is written mostly in Java. It can be used to develop applications in Java and, by means of various plug-ins, otherprogramming languages including Ada, C, C++, COBOL, Fortran, Haskell,JavaScript, Lasso, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby (including Ruby on Railsframework), Scala, Clojure, Groovy, Scheme, and Erlang.
- Using Eclipse for Java development: A helpful introduction to the world’s most-used IDE.
- Develop apps for iPad.
- iOS Dev Center.
- Intel Launched HTML5 App Development Platform. Posted 4/12/2013. This platform provides an integrated system to develop, test, debug and deploy applications across multiple operating systems including iOS, Android, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.
eBook Publishing
80% of the eBook market is split into Apple (using Object C),
Android, and Amazon (Kindle).
- Development of the Ebook Reader. Gives the history.
- DigitalBookWorld.com Here at Digital Book World we published an article (InDesign to Ebook: Resources), which summed up useful resources and tools for producing ebooks.
- Kindle Format 8. Kindle Format 8 is Amazon’s next generation file format offering a wide range of new features and enhancements – including HTML5 and CSS3 support that publishers can use to create all types of books. KF8 adds over 150 new formatting capabilities, including drop caps, numbered lists, fixed layouts, nested tables, callouts, sidebars and Scalable Vector Graphics - opening up more opportunities to create Kindle books that readers will love. Kindle Fire is the first Kindle device to support KF8 - in the coming months KF8 will be rolled out to our latest generation Kindle e-ink devices as well as our free Kindle reading apps.
- Using Dreamweaver to Edit ePUB eBooks.
- How To Produce An eBook With Apple's Pages Software - Part 1.
- Chaucer by Metrodigi. Chaucer®, a revolutionary new eBook development platform by Metrodigi®, empowers your publishing team to create, manage, and publish highly interactive digital content faster and more cost-effectively than ever before. Cloud-based, incredibly intelligent and easy to use, Chaucer will modernize your publishing workflow quickly and affordably.
- iBooks Author. Create and publish amazing Multi-Touch books for iPad.
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