How to turn your Android Phone to Windows Phone?
Metro UI is getting very popular these days with its usage in Windows Phone, Windows 8 etc. . . . The Tiles in the start screen is one of the major attractions for the Metro UI on Windows Phone and Windows 8. How to turn your Android Phone to Windows [...]
How to convert your Windows 7 UI to resemble Android Look and feel?
Are you a Windows 7 user and wish to have your Windows PC have the look and feel of Android? Here’s the Android Skin Pack from Hamed, DevianArt user that transforms your Windows 7 to the look and feel of Android OS. Just Download the Android Skin Pack Read more [...]
Microsoft OneNote for Android
Microsoft has released OneNote Mobile for Android which is now available for download from Android Marketplace. Microsoft Word , Excel , PowerPoint and OneNote has become close part of the Microsoft Office Suite. The Mobile version of the Microsoft OneNote is now available for the following platforms Windows Phone iPhone [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: Android, iPhone, Microsoft, OneNote, Windows Phone
Windows Phone Camp Hands On Accelerator Lab at Columbus Ohio
Microsoft is organising a 3 days developer event that will have the experts in Windows Phone to help you build , test and deploy your Windows Phone App in the Windows Phone Marketplace . So , if you have an idea for an Windows Phone App , then it is [...]
Categories: Events Tags: Android, event, Windows Phone
More guidance and tool for porting iPhone & Android apps to Windows Phone
JC Cimetiere in the WIndows Phone Team Blog provides an overview of the guidance and tools that can help the iPhone and Android Developers to port their Apps to Windows Phone . JC Cimetiere talks about the samples that are avaialble for Android and iPhone that includes In-App Advertisements Geo-Location [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Android, iPhone, Windows Phone
iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8 ? A coder’s guide
Matthew Baxter-Reynolds in theguardian website writes about iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8 ? A coder’s guide . “Why the iPad is too cheap, Objective-C is no good, Android is nearly good enough, and Windows 8 could answer your development needs: a professional coder’s guide” . Read More @ WindowsPhoneRocks.com
Categories: Others, Windows Phone 7 Tags: Android, iPhone, Windows Phone
Microsoft Bing’s Metro UI for Android
Microsoft has now updated its Bing Application with the Windows Phone 7 / Windows 8 Metro UI Look . The Bing App for android includes some additional features in which the Windows Phone 7 Metro UI is one of them . So , its the Android users turn to get [...]
Google Maps Navigation for Android 1.6+ now in South Africa
The Google Maps Navigation for Android V1.6 Beta is now available in SouthAfrica . The Google Maps Navigation was built from Groundup to take advantage of your phone’s Internet Connection and includes turn by turn voice guidance and automatic rerouting . Some of the other features includes Navigation: Free, voice-guided [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: Android, Google Maps, Navigation, SouthAfrica
Google + App for Apple iOS
I am not a user of iPhone, but a Windows Phone user. Still make sure that i follow few things on what’s happening on other platform too. I just started using Google + and was wondering if there were Mobile Apps for it. Windows Phone 7 doesn’t have one yet, [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: Android, Apple, iPhone, Social Media, Windows Phone
Android 3.2 Platform and Updated SDK Tools announced for developers
Xavier Ducrohet in the Android Developers Blog announces the release of the Android 3.2 platform which is an incremental release that adds several new capabilities for uses and developers . To know whats new in the platform , visit Android 3.2 Version Notes. The team has also released a new [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: Android, developers, SDK, Windows Phone
Skype 2.0 for Android is now available
Here’s an update to the skype for Android App that brings support for two way video calling . The Video calling works on Google Nexus S , HTC Desire S , Sony Ericsson XPeria Neo and Xperia Pro . Skype 2.0 for Android is free and can be downloaded from [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: Android, Marketplace, Skype 2.0
GQueues for iOS and Android Devices
GQueues is a simple task manager that is built on Google App Engine which allows the users to log in with Gmail and Google App contacts and also provides some features that includes calender syn m reminders , tagging etc . Now the GQueues Mobile allows you to access your [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: Android, GQueues, iOS
Webinar – Develop Android clients for Delphi and PHP REST Servers
Bit Time International is organising a webinar on “Develop Android clients for Delphi and PHP REST Servers” on June 23 , 2011 at 11.00 ( GST ) . The Webinar focusses on the basics that everyone should know to interface an ANdroid Application to a web service . The webinar [...]
New version of Android Development Tools released
Today , Google has released the version 11 of the Android Development Tools plugin . Some of the new features include Editor improvements New Visual Refactoring operations like “Extract Include” ,”Extract Syle” etc. Layout Editor supporting fragments , palette configurations and support for custom views . XML Editing is improved [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: Android, Social Media
Google Wallet Mobile App coming soon
Recently , Google along with Citi,MasterCard , First Data ans Sprint gave a demo of the Mobile “Google Wallet” . Google Wallet is a mobile app that makes the users easier to pay for the goods . It allows the users to store credit cards , coupons , loyalty and [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: Android, Mobile, Social Media, wallet
Microsoft Partner Info App for Windows Phone 7 and Android launched
Recently , Microsoft has announced the Microsoft Partner Info mobile App for the Windows Phone 7 and Android devices that brings you the info as a Microsoft Partner . The App brings together a lot of information on Microsoft Partner information resources and displays them ona single App . Download [...]
Categories: Announcement, Windows Phone 7, WP App News Tags: Android, Microsoft, Microsoft Partner, Windows Phone 7, Zune
Launcher 7 – Windows Phone 7 UI on Android
Here’s a Launcher 7 from Timo Kujala which is a Windows Phone 7 style launcher for Android Phones . Custom launchers have already been there for Android Phone and infact there were launchers like the Palm WebOS design and SPB Shell 3D . The Windows Phone 7 which is based [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Android, Launcher 7, Launcher Pro, Timo Kujala, Windows Phone 7
Webinar – Using Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 to Build for Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS, and iOS mobile platforms using a common code base
Adobe brings an exclusive webinar on May 5 , 2011 at 3.00 PM on the topic “Using Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 to Build for Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS, and iOS mobile platforms using a common code base” . Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 is an Eclipse based development tool for rapidly [...]
WordPress for Android 1.4 is Now Available
WordPress for Android version 1.4 was released few days back which is available in the Android Market place . This version of the WordPress for Android will enable the users to schedule posts / pages on a specific date or time and also helps to manage the self hosted blogs [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: Android, developers, HTTP, OpenSource, Wordpress
Android Developer Challenge
Here’s an Android Developer Challenge for Sub-Saharan Africa which is designed to encourage the creation of the cool and innovative Android Mobile Apps . The Winners gets a chance to win an Android Phone and $25,000 USD . There are 3 different categories for entry Entertainment / Media / Games [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: Android, Developer, Social Media, Windows Phone
Webinar – Cross Platform Mobile App Development
SYNERZIP , Agile Software Product Development Partner is conducting a Webinar on April 19, 2011 at 10:00AM CDT on the topic “Cross Platform Mobile App Development” . The event will be presented by Rohit Ghatol who works for Synerzip as Associate Architect . With the Worldwide adoption of different smartphones [...]
Categories: Events Tags: Android, Blackberry, Development, iOS, Mobile, Symbian, SYNERZIP, webOS, Windows Phone 7
Interesting .NET Links – April 7 , 2011
List all the table in given database Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.3 Released (New Message Prompt, Password Prompt controls and Toast fixes + now NuGet’able too) – Greg Duncan Novell’s .Net App Development on Android using Microsoft’s Visual Studio and Mono CodeRush Tip– Create a Select / Switch statement with branches for each [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: Android, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Mono, MS Project, NET, Phone.Toolkit, Visual Studio
Interesting .NET Links – April 4 , 2011
SQL Server Interview Question – What are the differences between INNER JOIN, LEFT JOIN and RIGHT JOIN in SQL Server? – Shivprasad Koirala Retreive the version number from Assembly in Windows Phone 7 WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers – Using Bing Maps How to Identify a class in Software [...]
Interesting .NET Links – April 2, 2011
PLINQO for Entity Framework Templates, Beta 1 Released! – Blake Niemyjski SQL Server: What I Have Learned In March 2011 Install Northwind or pubs database on sql server 2008 – Amit Panorama Tombstone Caveat – Rudi Grobler New IDE for Mobile App Developers ( Windows Mobile , Android , Apple [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: Android, Entity Framework, IDE, NET, Northwind, PLINQO, SQL SERVER, windows mobile
Opensource Bing Maps Android SDK is Available for Android Devices
The Bing Maps Android SDK is a Opensource project written in Java and helps the developers to create Map applications using Microsoft’s Bing Maps The SDK was built built on top of Bing Maps AJAX V7 and requires Bing Maps Key . The SDK also includes libraries for accessing Bing [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: Android, Bing Maps, Bing Maps AJAX V7, Geocoding, Microsoft, OpenSource, REST, Spatial Data
Dual-boot Android and Windows Mobile on HTC HD2
Do you use HTC HD2 that still runs on Windows Mobile 6.5 and earlier version ? Do you want to run Android OS ? You can dual-boot the Windows Mobile OS along with Android using RunDroid on HTC HD2 . To use this feature , download the App from XDA [...]
Categories: How To's, Windows Phone 7 Tags: Android, Dual-boot, HTC HD2, RunDroid, windows mobile
IDC predicts Windows Phone 7 as #2 Mobile OS by 2015 overtaking iPhone
IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, March 29, 2011 predicts that Windows Phone 7 will overtake Apple’s iPhone to become the Number 2 smartphone in the market . As per the prediction , Google’s Android will still remain dominant in the smartphone business until 2015 . “Android is poised to [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Android, Apple, IDC, iPhone, Microsoft, Social Media, Windows Phone 7
Interesting .NET Links – March 15 , 2011
How to publish WP7 applications if you live in the Middle-east & Africa region – Rudi Grobler Defining .NET Components with Namespaces – Patrick Smacchia Creating mutually exclusive code block C# – Mayur WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers – Hardware and Device Services – Kevin Introducing .Net Perf [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: Android, C#, iPhone, NET, SQL Server 2008, Windows Phone 7, WP7
WP7 over takes Android Developers on one of the App sales
Here’s a interesting data thats being out from EverythingWM on the commercial viability for developing Windows Phone 7 Applications . One of the top application has past the $100000 gross sales and is proving to be giving a tough competition to Android . There are 3 Apps that has crossed [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP App News Tags: Android, FruitNinja, Microsoft, WP7
Which is better ? Windows Phone 7 or Android Gingerbread on HTC HD2
jykazu has uploaded a video in youtube where he just breezes through the surface usability of Android Gingerbread and Windows Phone 7. The author has both the Mobile OS being installed on Windows Phone 7. Just watch the video to find out which one is better .
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Android, Gingerbread, HTC HD2, Mobile OS, Windows Phone 7