Integrating with Facebook from PHP is easy with the help of Facebook’s PHP SDK and some HTTP libraries like Zend_Http_Client or PEAR HTTP_Request2. In this article I’ll show you how to get... Read More
Android
Smartphones are often touted as the tools that will lead to higher productivity in our daily lives. This is generally true with the large number of applications that are available in various... Read More
This article gives you a hands on approach to migrating an application written in Java using Eclipse for Android, to Windows Phone 7 using Visual Studio, C# and Silverlight. You’ll take a look at... Read More
Craig takes a look at final jQuery Mobile 1.0 release and illustrates how it could help you build your next mobile application.Read More
It seems like everyone these days is texting away on their mobile phone or updating their social network status every 5 minutes. It’s no surprise that the convenience of being able to access the... Read More
It's now widely understood that Google will be unveiling the next version of its Android operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), next week on the 11th of October . It will launch along with a... Read More
Craig looks at Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet, it's Silk browser, and how web developers can adapt existing sites.Read More
Android applications face a number of challenges that other mobile platforms may not have to deal with (yet). Android is available on a wide variety of hardware, each having a different screen size... Read More
BuildMobile is looking for talented authors to join it’s team. We’ve got a large demand for a wide range of topics and we simply can’t keep up! If you think you can write on these any of these... Read More
I’ve noticed there’s quite a bit of misunderstanding among .NET developers as to what Ruby or Rails are, and how those compare to what they came to know and love in .NET. I know I didn’t... Read More
Not very long ago when we were planning the launch of our humble magazine BuildMobile, which you are reading right now, the content strategy included coverage of the nebulous WebOS mobile operating... Read More
In this, the final in this series of posts about Android Widgets, we will build on the previous articles by taking our periodically updating widget and adding a background service to fetch data from... Read More
Whenever you read about Android development, you’ll see the word Activity pop up all the time. In this article, we’ll explain what Activities are, and how they relate to Tasks, Processes and the... Read More
Waiting for Android: UrlJsonAsyncTask Source code for this article: UrlJsonAsyncTaskTest on GitHub Download and install the Android app: UrlJsonAsyncTaskTest.apk (Android 2.2 or greater) You can... Read More
