Developing a iPhone app using drupal as backend
An iPhone application can be developed with drupal as a backend using the services module with the REST server and OAuth authentication. On the drupal end, install the services modules and servers which include Services, the XML-RPC server, JSON, REST server, and the node service modules for secure data transfer. Use Keys and OAuth for Authentication layers for enabling drupal to mobile app. You can add themes like Nokia mobile, or iWekbkit Drupal themes according to requirements.
Cross-platform mobile apps can be built with open source Titanium Mobile, PhoneGap, jQuery Mobile or RhoMobile using standard web technologies like HTML, CSS and Javascript for multiple mobile platforms. After installing iPhone SDK, install developer account with Titanium or PhoneGap. The Drupal connected iPhone app is ready for publishing as a native app in App Store.
NBC.com App brings streaming video content to iPad
NBC has announced the launch of NBC.com App for iPad that brings streaming content of popular NBC shows. This allows iPad developers, users, and companies to leverage iPad app for streaming content of NBC programs including thousands of video clips and highlights with full screen video playback.
Features
• Short videos of NBC shows
• Exclusive photos
• Interactive games
• NBC schedules and previews of upcoming shows
• Searchable content by show
• Customized dashboard that offers a personalized view of favorite NBC shows
NBC’s iPad App does not feature full episodes streaming for now. However, the iPad app is available in Netflix and Hulu. NBC App for iPad is available on the App Store for free download.
SubHub offers Content Monetization Platform, Drupal-based app store
Web content host SubHub, unveiled its new offering, a Content Monetization Platform including an App store based in Drupal, the first of its kind. The App store allows developers to publish app in SubHub website. The company normally charges £50 monthly subscription for availing their hosted publishing software. SubHub will share revenues with any drupal developer for using the modules. The paid app store provides an opportunity for SubHub to monetize content and become a reseller of Drupal, which is paradigm shift to its business model. This will offer basic hosting in SubHub free of cost, but each module will be charged at $29 per month. SubHub also plans to leverage API that will bring more revenue. SubHub offers web hosted content publishing software to small publishers who charge at $82 per month for their content.
iPad 2 vs Motorola Xoom
iPad 2 brings lot of new features and enhancements and it unleashes a tough competition in tablets with release of Motorola Xoom, which is Google’s first tablet which is getting early reviews post-release. A comparison between the two tablets is made based on style, screen quality, processing power, camera quality, software availability, accessories, and price.
Design: iPad has a bigger screen, easier to hold, flat back, slimmer and lighter, alternate white color scheme, and a thickness of only 8.8mm
Power: iPad has a 1 GHz A5 dual-core processor while Xoom comes with 1 GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 processor. Both match power current trend of using dual-core processors.
Gaming: Apple’s iOS has a bigger selection than Android
Keyboard: iPad scores well in touch-typing than other tablets
Price: iPad 2 is the most affordable tablet that costs $499 for a basic 16GB Wi-Fi only unit, while the cheapest xoom costs $599 with 32GB Wi-Fi only unit.
It remains to be seen how the rivalry between iPad 2 and Xoom will set a new trend for tablets but will certainly win the hearts of people. Lots of iPad developers will flock to iPad 2 to build apps on the tablet platform.
Cross-platform Mobile development: Appcelerator Titanium
Appcelerator Titanium is a free open source cross platform mobile development framework that allows titanium developer to use web technologies such as HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to build native application that provides better user experience.
Titanium compiles native code in development of native iPhone, Android devices, tablet, desktop applications, Windows and Mac. BlackBerry will be coming soon on titanium. The good thing about titanium is that it also provides access to more than 300 social and other APIs and location information to users. Appcelerator also offers customizable metrics for actions and events.
Titanium communicates with device or cloud and the app can leverage camera and video camera capabilities.
Rhodes 2.2.6 released
Rhodes is a free and open source MVC-based framework written in Ruby under the MIT license for building native cross-platform mobile development applications. Rhodes 2.2.6 has been released with bug fixes from the previous version. Rhodes 2.2.5 supports iOS 4.2, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, Blackberry 6 and Samsung Galaxy Tab. The update feature bug issues related to GPS stops by timeout on Android, several schema model issues, NativeView on Android and Windows Mobile, SMS link fix for Blackberry and more in rhodes development. Rhodes 2.2 offers users support for Bluetooth, Calendar and Android Cloud to Device Messaging. RhoSync 2.0 is optimized to automatic synchronization of backend enterprise app data to the mobile device. Rhodes enables developers to harness their traditional web skills such as HTML, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript, to create a native app, and porting the app in cross operating systems such as Android, Apple’s iPhone and iPad, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and HP/Palm’s Linux-based WebOS.
Learn more new platforms : Titanium devleopment and PhoneGap development
Download WordPress 3.1 RC3
Open source blogging and publishing platform, WordPress.org has issued WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate 3 that includes significant changes from the previous version of WordPress 3.1. The most important change is the removal of AJAX-based functionality for list tables which had been used in an effort to move the list-style screens to full AJAX for pagination, searches and column sorts. WordPress developer leverages plugins to consolidate the list-style screens into a single API.
There were too many major bugs and usability issues in the previous versions of WordPress 3.1 but column sorting remains the same. The list table API has been set to private as there is no guarantee that changes will break functionality in future updates. WordPress developers should avoid using this API.
WordPress 3.1 RC3 comes with a number of bug fixes. The author is now properly displayed in the Quick Edit dropdown. Some fixes for theme deletion have been implemented as well as some for pages used for posts.
Android 2.3 Gingerbread Features
Google has released Android 2.3 Gingerbread on Google Nexus S and SDK tool to android developers with many innovative and exciting features. Here is the list of new features in the latest version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread along with screen shots and video:
Intuitive UI for extra speed, ease of use with simplified color theme black notification bar, menus, pop-up, and other parts
One-touch word selection and improved copy/paste feature enable user to select a word by press-hold on selection mode, and copy text and paste it later quickly and easily
New Keyboard is redesigned and optimized to include reshaped buttons for quick and easy word selection and editing with dictionary suggestions
Internet calling enable users to make voice calls over the internet to other users who have SIP accounts. The user can add a SIP address into his Quick contacts and can initiate a call
Support for Near Field Communication technology allow user to read data and interact with NFC tags
Improved Power Management for managing apps to ensure optimal output and better battery life
Audio Sound Processing for audio output with new per-track or global audio effects, including bass boost, headphone virtualization, equalization, and reverb.
New Download manager to manage and store downloads from the browser, email, or any other application.
Support for Gyroscope sensor to create applications that respond quickly and smoothly to precise changes in device position and motion.
Multiple Cameras support on device for photo or video capture
Extra Large screen sizes found in devices and tablets
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