When i got the iPad I didn’t have a microSIM card and the first thing i tried to do was to try and pair the iPhone and the iPad through bluetooth… guess what; it doesn’t work.. the iPad or iPhone does not see each other as bluetooth devices.
I guess this is the strategy Apple has chosen to sell more of the 3G iPad’s. Would you need a 3G iPad if you could pair? nope….
It looks like the iPad is not able to see any phone or modem capable devices at all by the looks of it, but it can be paired with laptops (at least it can be paired with my MacBook Pro at work) Continue Reading
I’ve de-mystified the use of OAuth authorization and authentication for integrating services like Twitter, Foursquare and Gowalla into my mobile applications.
While I was playing around with MonoTouch and selected (like many, many others) to create a twitter client as a learning project. This is my first attempt to create anything connected to twitter so I thought it smart to not only learn the MonoTouch environment, but also try to learn as much as I can about the underlying technologies. Continue Reading
One of my favorite iPhone software now is the Hipstamatic camera application. I’d love to get a version of this for Aperture 3.
Olaf Ryes Plass in Oslo seen from Dakota restaurant (btw: try the Dimmu Burger, it's great) thrugh Hipstamatic
This post was written with the iPhone WordPress application as a trial to see how it looks and feels to blog using the phone. Apart from the tiny keyboard that sports a lot of typos and that it’s not possible to add links to post this is a good application and it’s no problem to get a short post published.
What you should be aware of is that you cannot use any theme spesific features in the WordPress app, so for instance this theme called Premium News uses the Excerpt field for frontpage content and a custom image field for thumbnails. You would need a custom app for each theme using custom fields to handle that or do a lot of coding doing it very generic.
Through this spring i’ve been playing around with some iPhone development to teach myself Objective-C. It hasn’t been all fun..
With 10 years of .NET development behind me i’ve got a good understanding of development, and I read code in almost any language. Now a few days before i start my summer vacation have learned two things…
I really enjoy developing software.
I still find it painful to take joy in developing software in Objective-C.
It is two-folded; I don’t really like the language, and the standard IDE Xcode is an incomplete and non-productive IDE in my opinion. Continue Reading
While we are waiting for the full release of Windows Phone 7 Series, with devices, Marketplace and applications; Android based phones continues to grow and has passed Microsoft and Windows Mobile in the global device market.
A Gartner report released on may 19. shows that Android is the quickest growing mobile operating systems.
The report looks at the global market and market shares in 1Q of 2009 and 2010 and shows that the market leader Symbian is down 4,5% and has now 44,3% share of the market , RIM (Research In Motion blackberry) is the second largest OS with 19,4% share, but is down by 1,2%. Apple is up 4,9% to a 15,4% share and Android is up 8% to a 9,5%.
The old Windows Mobile OS from Microsoft is down 3,4% to a market share of 6,8%. Continue Reading
I was browsing for information about HTML5 and support on mobile devices today and came across a nice how-to article by Alex Kessinger on how to write an HTML5 tetris game for the iPhone Safari browser.
The blog Linux on the iPhone has a recipe on how you can install Android OS through dual booting on 1. & 2. generation of iPhones. iPod1 has a Norwegian article about it too. This could be fun to try.
You need to use OpeniBoot, a bootloader to achieve this. A prebuild image can be downloaded from MediaFire together with detailed installation instructions.
When it comes to application development on the Windows Phone platform things are on the move. Lessons are being learned from the iPhone and its usability experience, from the Android platform etc. The lesson learned is that you need to pay extra attention to how your application looks and feel.
You should not under estimate the possibility of usability and design being the selling point in a purchase decisions before feature richness in a case where two similar featured apps are compared, where one looks and feels good, and the other has an extra amount of features beyond the core functionality it should handle.
As i am on the look out for a UI toolkit to standardize our enterprise development at work on I´ll compile a list of libraries that could do the job as i find them. The criteria for the search is ease of use and finger friendliness. Hopeful others also find this list useful. Continue Reading
Norwegian Yellow Pages (Eniro) have created one of the first augmented reality application for the iPhone. Augmented reality is the concept of adding value-adding information onto real time imaging. One use i think this could be a really cool tool for is visiting tourists. Hold up your iPhone and get instant tourist information anywhere in Oslo. The application is due to be launched in November/December 2009 at no cost, but will only be available for the iPhone 3GS because it uses the digital compass.
For developers of Android applications there is an AR API called Wikitude. It is a application programming interface which allows for the open development of markerless AR experiences, providing developers with the tools to either create their own android augmented reality applications, or enhance their existing Android applications with an AR camera-view engine. Continue Reading
Norwegian online paper digi.no (Norwegain article) has an interesting article today about an anouncement from the open source project MONO. They have completed a SDK called MonoTouch. MonoTouch is the Mono edition for Apple’s iPhone and Apple’s iPod Touch devices. MonoTouch allows developers to create C# and .NET based applications that run on the iPhone and can take advantage of the iPhone APIs as well as reusing both code and libraries that have been built for .NET as well as existing skills. MonoTouch also includes XCode integration.
MonoTouch is not open source and comes with some quirks when it comes to application distribution and licensing but it is a good step in the right direction.
MonoTouch comes in three version Personal for $399, Enterprise for $999 and Enterprise 5 for $3 99. Continue Reading
Working as Chief Mobility Consultant at Creuna Norway. I received MSFT MVP for Device Application Development in June 2010 and are interested in mobility trends, the market, technology, software development for Windows Phone, iOS and Android mostly, but not exclusively. Scrum master that fights to keep it lean.
When i got the iPad I didn’t have a microSIM card and the first thing i tried to do was to try and pair the iPhone and the iPad through bluetooth… guess what; it doesn’t work.. the iPad or iPhone does not see each other as bluetooth devices.
