Topic: mobile

SD Times news digest: July 16, 2014—Android development course, NSA’s cybersecurity program, and JFrog’s series B funding

Google crash course for Android development Google is offering an online training course for experienced developers new to Android or mobile. The course, Developing Android Apps: Android Fundamentals, will be available through Udacity and provides step-by-step training to building an Android app, and best practices for mobile development in general. “With Android expanding rapidly into … continue reading

SD Times news digest: July 11, 2014 – Kids programming robots, Amazon wants to test drones in US & new AWS web tools

Kids programming robots to learn new skills With just a smart tablet and Angry Birds, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are making it possible for kids to program robots. The researchers have paired an Android tablet paired with a small humanoid robot, and kids are teaching it how to play Angry Birds just by dragging … continue reading

Google announces Project Tango development kit

The dev kit is powered by the NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor and comes with integrated depth sensing, motion tracking and WiFi … continue reading

OS architecture puts iOS apps on Android

Computer science researchers at Columbia develop an OS to run apps built for different mobile ecosystems … continue reading

The co-evolution of mobile platforms and quality assurance

Where mobile QA has come from and where it belongs in a world dominated by mobile app quality … continue reading

Seven mobile app development pitfalls in the cloud

The advantages cloud computing provides may become problems if they’re misunderstood … continue reading

IBM boosts MobileFirst offering

Mobile service portfolio focuses on mobile strategy, security and application development … continue reading

Microsoft expands Windows App Studio to tablets, PCs

Rebranded universal Windows app creation tool has a new preview mode and Facebook integration … continue reading

Satya Nadella announces Office for iPad, Enterprise Mobility Suite

Microsoft lays out cloud-for-mobile strategy for end users, developers and IT at press event … continue reading

IBM’s Watson steps out again

A Mobile Developer Challenge, and forays into online retail, healthcare and food, mark a busy season for the supercomputer … continue reading

The three pillars of a mobile-first strategy

Context-driven software, granular interfaces and value-centric usage are what mobile apps mean today … continue reading

Zeichick’s Take: Is Firefox OS a serious mobile platform?

It is, but it’s not to be taken seriously until more people use it … continue reading

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