If you want to build an Android app you can install the software development kit on your computer and then test your apps in an emulator or export them to an Android device — or you can just fire up a new app called AIDE that lets you program Android apps on an Android device. […]
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Microsoft courts webOS developers while HP tries to hang onto them
Following HP’s announcement that it would discontinue all webOS hardware including smartphones and tablets, Microsoft’s Brandon Walsh reached out to webOS developers, promising free phones and other tools if they were interested in developing for Windows Phone 7. So far he’s received over 200 replies. For its part, HP is trying to convince webOS developers […]
4 months after launch, why are there still so few Honeycomb apps?
The first tablet running Google Android 3.x hit the streets 4 months ago, but there are still only a few hundred apps designed specifically for Android tablets. Sure, you can run virtually any Android app on a Motorola XOOM or Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. But apps that are designed for tablets simply look better since […]
appFlash lets you convert Flash apps to native iOS apps
Yesterday Google released a new tool called Swiffy which allows Flash developers to upload a SWF file to convert it to HTML5. This allows people to access web apps, ads, and videos in browsers that don’t normally support Adobe Flash… such as the iPhone or iPad web browsers. Today a company called appMobi has gone […]
HTC launches OpenSense platform for developers
HTC has announced that it’s launching a set of tool that will allow third party developers to write apps that integrate more closely with HTC Sense software. Sense is a suite of apps that run on top of Google Android featuring home screen widgets, lock screen tools, web browser customizations, and more. The company has […]