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Back in January I asked IntelliJ IDEA: the best IDE for programming Android? Google says yes. At the IO conference today, the company announced the official Android Studio – and it a version of IntelliJ IDEA. Android Studio is currently in preview. …continue reading Official Google Android Studio is based on JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Adobe has shown a new touch app for Kuler, its web application for creating and choosing colour themes, which will be available in June. I asked Scott Morris, Senior Marketing Director of Creative Cloud, about Android and whether apps like this will also be supported there. “That is coming out to begin with at …continue reading Creative Pros prefer iOS says Adobe, explaining lack of Android support in new apps How good is Windows Phone 8 security? Actually, pretty good. The key features are described here [pdf]: Trusted Boot prevents booting to an alternative operating system, using the UEFI secure boot standard. Only signed operating system components and apps can run. App sandboxing: No communication channels exist between apps on the phone other …continue reading Windows Phone 8 enterprise security versus Blackberry 10 Balance and Samsung Knox Power shifts at Mobile World Congress: Samsung rises, Apple absent, Google hidden, Microsoft missingMobile World Congress, now under way in Barcelona, is a big event. Exact numbers are not available, but I have heard talk of 70,000 trade attendees; it is not something you can safely ignore if you have a presence in the mobile industry. Nevertheless Apple chooses to ignore it, preferring its own exclusive events. …continue reading Power shifts at Mobile World Congress: Samsung rises, Apple absent, Google hidden, Microsoft missing Here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona HP has announced a 7” Android tablet which will be available in April. I took a quick look at the Mobile Focus event today. The back of the device is more interesting, showing logos for HP and for Beats Audio. From the front you would be pushed …continue reading HP goes Android: what does that say about Windows 8? Following my piece on different approaches to building the user interface in cross-platform frameworks, twitter user Sam Hogarth pointed me to the PropertyCross project. This implements a non-trivial application in 8 different cross-platform tools, covering Android, iOS and Windows Phone. Note that only four of the frameworks support Windows Phone. Using the pie charts presented …continue reading Cross-platform frameworks ordered by percentage of shared code Late last year the JetBrains team released IntelliJ IDEA 12, the latest version of its Java IDE. Java today has many roles, but two dominate. One is server-side programming using one of many Java application servers, while the other is coding Android apps. IntelliJ IDEA has the former role well covered, though this is the …continue reading IntelliJ IDEA: the best IDE for programming Android? Google has revised the terms of the Android SDK license agreement so that users must now agree not to fragment Android by deriving other SDKs from Google’s official offering. In fact, you now have to agree not to fragment Android in any way as a condition of using the Android SDK. The key clauses …continue reading Google fights Android fragmentation with new SDK terms Appcelerator and IDC have released their latest mobile developer report, in which nearly 3,000 users of the cross-platform development tool Titanium report on their views and intentions. These reports are always interesting but experience suggests that they are poor predictors. A year ago, the Q4 2011 report told us: Amazon’s new Kindle Fire ignites developer …continue reading Mobile: Windows Phone appeal growing, iOS and Android secure say Titanium developers Xamarin has released Xamarin Mac which adds Mac support to the existing iOS and Android compilers from the company: MonoTouch: apps for iPhone and iPad using the MonoDevelop IDE on the Mac Mono for Android: apps for Android using either Visual Studio or MonoDevelop Xamarin.Mac: apps for Mac OS X using MonoDevelop on the Mac …continue reading Xamarin brings C# to development of apps for the Mac App Store |
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