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Mobil Development Posts
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Sending a Class with Data to New Activity in MonoDroid
Posted 4/5/2012 by Dan Lorenz, Software Engineer
If you haven’t heard, a company named Xamarin created a product called MonoDroid. This product allows you to develop Android applications in C# inside of Visual Studio. One of the more annoying limitations is the ability to send a class with data from one Activity to the next.
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An Introduction to MonoDroid
Posted 3/23/2012 by Dan Lorenz, Software Engineer
If you haven’t heard, a company named Xamarin created a product named MonoDroid. MonoDroid allows you to create Android applications with C# inside of Visual Studio! You are able to utilize all of your current knowledge about C# and apply it in the context of MonoDroid. This includes use of LINQ, XML libraries, properties, intellisense, calling web services, etc..
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Make Your Website More Accessible to Mobile Devices with a Single Line of Mark-up
Posted 2/13/2012 by Keith Burnell, Senior Software Engineer
I have been working a lot with MVC sites lately and experimenting with how to make them "usable" on mobile browsers. This post is about the single line of mark-up you can add to your site's Master Page, or in this case your _Layout.cshtml.
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Posted 8/25/2011 by Rachael VanderVelden, Project Manager, Online Marketing
Increased ownership of Smartphones is driving mobile internet growth, and increased mobile internet growth is driving the need for mobile ready websites. Even with the recent surge in mobile internet growth, the majority of the websites on the Internet today are not mobile optimized. As Smartphones continue to gain popularity, websites will need to be updated to be mobile ready.
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Posted 6/7/2011 by Brian Mahloch, Senior Software Engineer
Having a mobile strategy for your business goes beyond simply “having an app for that”. While native mobile applications for smart phones are all the rage, there may be an alternative, even more cost effective, way to deliver your mobile strategy.
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Posted 5/13/2011 by Tim Miller, Senior Software Engineer
Windows Phone 7 is a complete re-design from the ground up. Forget everything you ever knew about Windows Mobile, this is all new. Microsoft did what it needed to do and started from scratch with an entirely new user experience, platform, and development.
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Posted 5/13/2011 by Keith Burnell, Software Engineer
Developing an application for the Android platform is not much different than developing a web or win forms application using Visual Studio and .Net. Just like in the Microsoft world you download and install an SDK, write code on top of a framework, develop and design within an IDE and distribute as a self-contained library or executable. The following table parallels the tools and components we use every day developing .Net applications with those required to develop Android applications.Read
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Posted 5/12/2011 by Brian Mahloch, Senior Software Engineer
Developing an application for the iPhone is not much different than developing a web or win forms application using Visual Studio and .Net. Just like in the Microsoft world, you download and install an SDK, write code on top of a framework, develop and design within an IDE and distribute as a self-contained library or executable. The following table parallels the tools and components we use everyday developing .Net applications with those required to develop iPhone applications.
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Posted 5/11/2011 by John Ptacek, Senior Software Engineer
Since this is the first time that Skyline has created mobile apps for the three major mobile platforms, I thought I’d share how we approached the design of the applications, focusing on what was common between all three. Then, in future blog posts each of the mobile platforms will be discussed from a development standpoint.
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Posted 4/1/2011 by Jeff Weber, Senior Software Engineer
Sometime between 2008 and 2010, after it became clear that Microsoft’s existing Windows Mobile OS would not be able to compete with the likes of the iPhone and Android smart phones, Microsoft made a bold move. They decided to scrap the past and do a complete reset of their mobile phone strategy.
In order to be taken serious as a competitor to both the iPhone and Android platforms, Microsoft had to do more than just create a slick smart phone operating system. They needed to create an entire smart phone ecosystem.
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Posted 2/15/2010 by Brian Mahloch, Custom Software
Mobile platforms have been around for many years, but surprisingly few businesses have been able to take advantage of them for true business needs. Today, giving mobile business users access to email and calendars is more of an expectation than a value-added function. From a consumer’s perspective, there are literally hundreds of thousands of apps across a myriad of mobile platforms, offering a varying degree of functionality from games to online shopping. A proliferation of smart phones keeps getting smarter and users love the flashy interfaces and ‘shiny object’ factors of the devices. But as a business leader, how do you create a strategy to satisfy the user and the business needs as the target continues to change?
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