As noted previously, working in-browser when creating an App Cloud app is hugely useful as turn-around time is faster and the development tools are much better. While creating our first app we also created a tool called the App Cloud Emulator which further supports in-browser development. Main features include: Displays your application inside the device [...]
Read MoreEarlier this month we attended the Brightcove App Cloud Developer Kitchen. We were grateful and excited for this opportunity to get hands-on with the platform (currently in private beta), kicked the tires and build an app. In this post I’ll relay our experiences with the platform and show the app we built as well as [...]
Read MoreThe article below has been making the rounds in the blogosphere, but I wanted to post it here as it includes some very poignant lessons on making the decision to deploy native applications built for specific mobile platforms or a web-based application that is deployed across many platforms. This is a decision that comes up [...]
Read MoreI’ve noticed a certain argument pattern that says “if people aren’t doing thing “x” on platform “y” then platform “y” is never going to succeed. For instance since no one’s doing Facebook on their television then television/internet synergy hasn’t happened yet and maybe never will; or paid media on the mobile phone hasn’t taken off [...]
Read MoreAdobe is one persistent squirrel, trying hard to break the iOS nut. Adobe released the latest version of the AIR SDK recently, and one of the key features is an update to their support for iOS devices. Development on iOS support for AIR slowed to a crawl (stopped dead, actually) when Apple pulled the plug [...]
Read MoreThe Android platform provides a great way to deliver rich and highly functional native mobile applications to an ever growing number of smartphone and tablet devices, and soon even your TV. With this platform comes a rich set of development tools, primarily based around the Eclipse development environment, but which also includes command line tools [...]
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