With the markets for mobile devices and applications growing and changing so quickly, it’s difficult to see too far into the future except to say “more.” An article from FastCompany shows that the average smartphone user is consuming 435MB each month, increasing 89% over the last year. Popular apps such as Netflix and Pandora can [...]
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WebGL talk at Ruby|Web conference
We had an awesome Ruby|Web conference at Snowbird ski resort outside Salt Lake City last week. I was able to share some of my thoughts on WebGL and also connect it with ruby event machine. I have slides available and I also replicated the content on my github account. I know now that the websockets [...]
Develop your WebGL strategy now
WebGL is a developing standard for delivering 3D content inside an HTML5 canvas. The spec hasn’t reached a 1.0 version yet, but Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome have support we can try out in their nightly builds for the draft version. I had the best luck on both Linux and OSX in trying out WebGL [...]
iPhone users upgrade, Android/Blackberry/WM users don’t
Many people don’t give a second thought to the idea that you can upgrade your laptop or desktop computer to a newer operating system, even an OS from a different vendor, down the road. It’s a completely different story for mobiles. The roots of the problem are in the specialized hardware that mobiles have. The [...]
Apple’s iPhone OS 4 new terms and conditions to kill Flash CS 5, Rhodes and Appcellerator Titanium?
Apple iPhone Developer Program License Agreement was updated in the iPhone 4.0 SDK to specifically prohibit the development of apps using “an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool,” which would include Adobe’s Flash, Sun’s Java, Microsoft’s Silverlight/Mono, Unity 3D games engine, and most Cross-platform development frameworks such as Rhomobile Rhodes and Appcelerator Titanium. An [...]
JQTouch mobile app for user registration, tutorial
In the first article in this series I described a way to redirect iPhone clients to our mobile application. Now I will describe how to build a registration application using JQTouch. A typical web application sends the content of each page, but in this model we deliver the whole application and only parts of the [...]
Rhodes vs. Titanium, Round 2
I wrote an introductory post a while back that gave a brief overview of the three main cross-platform mobile development frameworks. At that time, Rhodes was definitely the leading solution in terms of features and support of several different platforms, while Titanium was still in a pre-release state and presented an uncertain future in terms [...]
How to redirect iPhone users to your mobile site
JQTouch is a web framework built on JQuery and intended to make mobile sites render through a webview and operate like a native mobile application. We’ve used JQTouch in a couple of different scenarios, such as a web site interface for iPhone and running on top of phonegap to build a standalone application. I’ll describe [...]