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Xamarin, a company which provides tools for cross-platform development in C#, has announced its acquisition of LessPainful and the creation of cloud-based testing for mobile apps based on LessPainful’s technology and the Calabash scripting language it created. The Test Cloud will perform automated user-interface tests on real devices, hosted by Xamarin, will provide detailed reports …continue reading Xamarin acquires LessPainful, announces Test Cloud for mobile apps Today at its Software Conference in Paris Intel presented its HTML5 development tools. There are several components, starting with the XDK, a cross-platform development kit based on HTML5, CSS and JavaScript designed to be packaged as mobile apps using Cordova, the open source variant of PhoneGap. There is an intriguing comment here: The XDK …continue reading Intel fights back against iOS with free tools for HTML5 cross-platform mobile development I attended Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where (among many other things) numerous security vendors were presenting their latest mobile products. I took the opportunity to quiz them. Why do smartphone users need to worry about security software, which many users were glad to leave behind with their PC? I observed that whereas I have …continue reading What is mobile security? And do we need it? Xamarin has announced significant updates to its developer platform. Xamarin is the company formed around 18 months ago, when Novell discontinued its investment in Mono, a cross-platform implementation of C# and the .NET Framework. Its focus is on mobile platforms, in particular iOS and Android, though there is also support for the Mac. On Windows …continue reading Xamarin 2.0 and Xamarin Studio announced, build for OSX, iOS and Android with C# When Microsoft announced Windows Phone 8, one disappointment was that existing phones would not be upgraded to the new mobile operating system. In mitigation, Microsoft promised Windows Phone 7.8 instead, an upgrade to Windows Phone 7.5 that implements the most visible feature of WP8, a new Start screen with more flexible live tiles that can …continue reading Windows Phone 7.8 Live Tiles are buggy, say users Browser company Opera is abandoning development of its own browser engine and adopting WebKit. To provide a leading browser on Android and iOS, this year Opera will make a gradual transition to the WebKit engine, as well as Chromium, for most of its upcoming versions of browsers for smartphones and computers. Note that Opera is …continue reading Browser monoculture draws nearer as Opera adopts WebKit, Google Chromium Some have declared the mobile OS battle over, won by Apple and Google Android between them. Microsoft and RIM Blackberry will fight it out for third and fourth place. Maybe, but I doubt it will be so simple. There are not one, not two, but three further open source mobile operating systems which have significant …continue reading Not just a four-horse race: three new mobile operating systems joining the fray At the end of January RIM is launching BlackBerry 10 in a now-or-never moment for the company. The new smartphone, based on the QNX embedded operating system, has distinctive features that just might win it a foothold in a crowded market dominated by Apple iOS and Google Android. If you are developing for …continue reading Last minute offer: attend BlackBerry Jam Europe in Amsterdam for half price or even free The BBC released a new sports app last week. In the comments to the announcement though, there is little attention given to the app or its content. Rather, the discussion is about why the BBC has apparently prioritised iOS over Android, since the Android version is not yet ready, with an occasional interjection from a …continue reading The cross-platform app problem. What should the BBC do? |
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