Vaadin has just released TouchKit 2.0 Add-on that allows you to develop web and hybrid applications for mobile telephones. This add-on is optimized for touch screen devices and the user interface it produces is the same as common native application developed for mobile telephones. If you are not familiar with Vaadin I recommend you to [...]
The PHP Cross Platform Web Applications course I teach in HIT coveres some of the newest web technologies. The next meeting covers Sencha Touch. It is a Java Script library that allows us to develop web applications optimized for touch screen devices, such as mobile telephones and tablets. In order to assist my students with [...]
During summer 2011 I taught in Tel-Aviv Jaffa Academic college a course about hybrid applications development for android devices. During the course my students learned how to exploit today newest web technologies in the development of hybrid application for android. We covered JavaScript libraries, such as jQueryMobile and SenchaTouch that enable you to develop user [...]
The Sencha Animator allows us to create CSS3 based animations. Animations development using the the Sencha Animator tool is very similar to animations development in Flash. The following short video clip shows how to create a simple CSS3 based animation using the Sencha Animator tool.
The PhoneGap library allows us to develop hybrid applications that render JavaScript code that interacts with the device as if it was an ordinary native applications. The following video clips explains the first steps. The possibility to write code in JavaScript that interacts with the device itself while using a JavaScript API identical for all [...]
On June 30th I am going to lecture about Hybrid Applications for Mobile Telephones in Open Source 2011 conference. You can download the slides. If you have any professional question following my lecture please don’t hesitate and place it as a comment to this post.
I chose to write this post for the benefit of all people who are not familiar with hybrid applications for mobile telephones. In the past, applications for mobile telephones were developed similarly to applications we install on our personal computer. When the case was iPhone they were developed in Objective-C. When the case was Windows [...]
The NFC (Near Field Communication) is a set of short range wireless communication technologies that enable the receiver to be a simple tag or a sticker without any power source. The Android platform built-in support for NFC sets the foundation for new breed of applications. According to rumors, the support for NFC shall be added [...]
The Android 3.0 platform introduces new widgets we can use when developing Java applications for it. The following video clips present some of them. You can find the source code as well as the slides that explain these new widgets available for free personal usage at www.abelski.com.
During last months I come across many developers that share zero confidence in the WP7 platform. Many of them still share the dissapointment from windows mobile. Many of them still believe that the wireless operators will keep blocking microsoft. Many of them simply don’t believe that the WP7 platform can take off. In a dynamic [...]
