Mobile Content Archive

Hello, Android--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf: Introducing Google's Mobile ...

--> Raleigh, NC—Android offers a compelling, fresh take on mobile applications. It blends the ubiquity of cell phones, the excitement of open source software, and the corporate backing of Google and other Open Handset Alliance members such...

[Publish Date: January 26, 2009]

GNOME Mobile: OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 20 - 24, 2009, San ...

By Dave Neary

GNOME Mobile is a collection of community projects which are at the heart of an increasing number of mobile Linux platforms. We will present the genesis of the initiative, the state of the art, and our plans for the project, as we become increasingly relevant to free software mobile developers.

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]

Making Test Frameworks Mobile - How to Stuff a 900lb Gorilla into a ...

By Clint Talbert, Joel Maher

The Mozilla project has six test frameworks with over 100,000 combined tests. For the Fennec mobile Firefox project, we coerced those frameworks to run on Maemo, Windows Mobile, and Symbian platforms. We will cover the challenges we faced and the lessons we learned. Come find out how we did it and how to apply these ideas to your next mobile project.

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]

The PhoneGap Project: Designing for the Device Neutral Mobile Web: OSCON ...

By Brian LeRoux, Rob Ellis, Brock Whiten

Created at iPhoneDevCamp 2008, PhoneGap is an open source initiative for bringing native device capabilities to mobile browsers. Use PhoneGap to author apps in HTML and JavaScript and still take advantage of native mobile device capabilities like geo location, camera, vibration and sound. Learn to build apps for iPhone, Android, Nokia S60 and Blackberry and how to contribute back to the project.

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]

Mobile Reality: Where 2.0 Conference 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, May 19 - ...

By Raven Zachary, Mok Oh, Will Carter, Ori Inbar

Mobile devices with location-based services and always-on data services are making it easier to bridge the virtual and physical worlds into a single, shared space. What was once a distant vision of augmented reality is starting to take shape on a new class of smartphones, including the Apple iPhone and Google Android. This session covers today's offerings that merge physical and virtual spaces.

[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]

Giving Your Mobile Apps a Sense of Place: Where 2.0 Conference 2009 - ...

By Dave Johnson

Combining the web and geo location in smart phones is one most powerful technology combinations in software development today. Moving your web application to a mobile device is quick and easy using open source web technologies. Learn how to move your web app to the modern smart phone.

[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]

Building an Atom-enabled Map-driven Location-aware Web-centric Mobile ...

By Tim Bray

The good news is that you can do what the title says, and pretty easily too. The even better news is that the platform and market are radically open. There are some warts and some bad news too; this talk is a personal narrative covering the lessons, pleasing and painful, learned in the course of my first hands-on Android project.

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]

Mobiles Around the World: Where 2.0 Conference 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

By Michael Halbherr, Christof Hellmis

The largest manufacturer of phones owns the largest geodata provider and has been busy building geo-aware web apps on Ovi. Michael will share their latest thinking.

[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]