Prototype your Mobile Application

As some of you may know I gave a presentation about why, and how to prototype your mobile application at the Droidcon Spain. If you want to see this presentation have a look at
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How was 2012 for the Mobile industry?

2012 is closing to an end. Normally this means time to look back on the things that happen during this year. A lot has happen within the Mobile industry, Facebook went public, Apple is suing Samsung (again), and a lot of new product saw daylight. Here are some of the most dramatic mob
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Obfuscating for Android with ProGuard

Obfu-what? Right, Obfuscation, in general, describes a practice that is used to intentionally make something more difficult to understand. The nature of Java (the programming language for Android apps) is that the code is not compiled down to machine code; it is compiled to an interme
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Automatically starting an Android application on boot

There can be multiple reasons for you to want to automatically start (autostart) an Android application or service after booting your device. Lets have a look at what a colleague of mine wrote. To autostart an Android application there are a couple of steps you need to take. However b
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Sending and Receiving Data SMS messages with Android

The humble short message service (SMS) celebrates its 20th birthday today. Engineer Neil Papworth sent the first SMS to an Orbitel 901 handset via Vodafone UK’s network in 1992: “Merry Christmas.” It would be safe to say that nearly every mobile phone sold in the pas
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