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CHAPTER 2: Application Architecture ...
environment for Eclipse.
This chapter will provide an introduction to Eclipse, emphasizing the most
frequently used Eclipse components. Becoming familiar withEclipse is the key
to a smooth Android ...
The Android platform comes with a default marketplace, Google Play, previously
known as the Android Market, which is an online store developed by Google for
Android devices. Unlike the Android...
... frameworks
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Emulating the iOS experience with
PhoneGap and jQTouch . 172
Developing native appswith Titanium Mobile . 178
Designing web appswith Sencha Touch . 180
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7 Focus on app content: Audio 114
Playing audio with HTML5 . 116
Incorporating audio with NudioPlayer . 118
Summary . 123
8 Focus on app content: Video
124
Delivering video with ... advice: Ignore that for now. You can download NimbleKit for free, design
apps with it, and test them in Simulator, all without paying the $99 fee. This is very
nice, because it allows you to...
... on the left of the
Android Market’s home page.
Note
The web-based Android Market only displays a portion of the available Android
apps. To view all apps you must use an Android smartphone of ... category of Androidapps is the Steady Win, also known as “base hit apps. ”
This category may be overlooked by some app developers who focus solely on the
Big Win. The majority of new Androidapps ... home page of the Android
Market, along with a Featured section.
Table 1.1 Percentages for the Most Popular Categories in the Android
Market
Type of Android App Percentage of Total Apps
Games 30%
Books...
... expect
with a typical C# or VB.NET Windows application.
Many of the same menus, like the Server Explorer, are still available but are hidden by
default. Other menus, like the toolbox with various ... going to dive deeper into building applications with more func-
tionality. In reality, that means I’ll be writing some code to make these sample apps do
more when it comes to filtering and displaying ... focus of several examples in the following chapters.
Figure 1-11 shows this list from within SharePoint with Task 1 through Task 9 assigned
to me.
Figure 1-11. SharePoint tasks are the main connecting...
... All WinRT apps (other than those that are built into Windows) run within a dedicated
environment that cannot interfere with or be interfered with other apps, nor can apps interfere
with the ... the app container. Such apps must presently be written as desktop applications.
Sidebar: Hybrid Apps
WinRT apps written in JavaScript can only access WinRT APIs directly; apps or libraries written ... leave a bunch of apps running, all of
which consume power. This made sense with desktop apps because many of them can be at least
partially visible at once. But for WinRT apps, the system is...
... PC/AT with an 80286 microprocessor running at 8 MHz with 512
KB of memory and two 30 MB hard drives. The display was an IBM Enhanced Graphics Adapter, with a
maximum resolution of 640 ì 350 with ... (WF), you'd
use a default namespace URI ending with the word "workflow".
The second namespace declaration associates an “x” prefix with elements and attributes that are
intrinsic ... property has a different default value with this theme.
In many of the sample programs in the remainder of this book, I'll be using the light theme without
mentioning it. I think the screen...
... the app container. Such apps must presently be written as desktop applications.
Sidebar: Hybrid Apps
WinRT apps written in JavaScript can only access WinRT APIs directly; apps or libraries written ... philosophy to apply to apps. In
the past, with desktop apps, it’s been more of an “anything goes” scene. There were some UI
guidelines, sure, but developers could generally get away with making up ... Direct interprocess communication between WinRT apps, between WinRT apps and desktop
applications, and between WinRT apps and local services, is blocked. Apps can still
communicate through the cloud...
... this:
myBlackBox->functionWithNoParameters();
myBlackBox->functionWithParameters(one, two);
or this:
myBlackBox.functionWithNoParameters();
myBlackBox.functionWithParameters(one, two);
The ... dealing
with objects. And those confounded brackets let you communi-
cate with those objects. In the first example, you were communi-
cating with a window object. The second example interacts with ... you don’t, you’ll see warnings that the
tools don’t work with the device’s firmware version.
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... framework specifically built for use within mobile applications. The navigator
will manage the screens within your application. Creating a new View-Based Applica-
tion within Flash Builder 4.5 will ... Developing Android Applications
with Flex 4.5
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Preface
Introduction to Android
The ... dramatically. Android s operating system continued to evolve through versions
1.0, 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1—and then 2.2, which was the point at which Adobe AIR became
available within the Android market....
... is important to retain consistency with other Metro apps.
Tip ■ It is worth opening and reading these files. One of the nice things about developing Metro
apps with web technologies is that you ... Metro apps. There is the Windows
API, which is shared across all Metro apps, regardless of the language used to write
them. There is the WinJS API, which is just for JavaScript Metro apps and ... develop-
ment cycle going for Metro apps.
Debugging Metro Apps
Visual Studio has an excellent debugger, and it can be used very easily to track down problems in
JavaScript Metro apps. In my own application...
... AppBar. Declare an AppBar control within the XAML Page.BottomAppBar
property.
1
Add buttons to an AppBar. Use Button controls, formatted either with predefined or with
custom styles.
2 through ... remote machine.
e problem with the local machine is that development PCs are rarely configured the way that user devices
are. Unless you are targeting your app at people with similar spec platforms, ... remote machine is the best approach, but only if you have a range of machines with dierent
capabilities to test with, which is difficult at this point, given that so few Windows 8 machines are...
... to Android APIs
The biggest limitation with AIR for Android at the time of this writing is that it cannot
issue Android system notifications (such as notification bar updates), or communicate
with ... Windows, most Android devices require drivers to communicate with the Android
SDK. Instructions for installing these drivers are available on the Android developer
website at http://developer .android. com/sdk/win-usb.html. ... <supportedProfiles>mobileDevice</supportedProfiles>
< ;android& gt;
<manifestAdditions><![CDATA[
<manifest android: installLocation="auto">
<uses-permission android: name=" ;android. permission.INTERNET"/>
...
... All WinRT apps (other than those that are built into Windows) run within a dedicated
environment that cannot interfere with or be interfered with other apps, nor can apps interfere
with the ... leave a bunch of apps running, all of
which consume power. This made sense with desktop apps because many of them can be at least
partially visible at once. But for WinRT apps, the system is ... the app container. Such apps must presently be written as desktop applications.
Sidebar: Hybrid Apps
WinRT apps written in JavaScript can only access WinRT APIs directly; apps or libraries written...