Dr. Dobb's Mobile Blogs

Sharper Than a Blue Tooth

Mon, 03 Nov 2014 17:20:00 -0500

This simple project sends out beacon data using the board's onboard temperature sensor (granted, it measures the internal chip temperature, which might not be that useful).

Lazy Bluetooth

Sat, 25 Oct 2014 00:15:00 -0400

There is a Bluetooth profile made just for the Internet of Whatever.

Compiler Warnings: Calling the User-Defined Default Constructor from Objective-C++ Code

Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:12:00 -0400

Interoperating between Objective-C and C++ code requires careful work -- as constructor calls vary, depending on which compiler you use.

Calling an Objective-C Method from a C++ Class

Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:05:00 -0500

A simple renaming trick will get rid of all the error messages.

JAX-RS: Easily Bridge Platforms with Services and JSON

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 06:17:00 -0500

JAX-RS helps bridge the worlds of JavaScript and mobile technology by transparently handling the JSON details.

Dr. Dobb's Now Has A Windows Phone App

Wed, 07 Aug 2013 13:57:00 -0400

Reader writes open-source app for Windows Phone 8

The Parrot Asteroid Development Experience

Thu, 31 May 2012 21:44:00 -0400

Is That An Android In Your Car?

Let's All Write a Mobile OS!

Wed, 23 May 2012 17:43:00 -0400

Intel, Nokia, Microsoft and the endless relaunching of mobile operating systems

Information Storage and Retrieval: From MEDLARS to Twitter

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:00:00 -0500

Each decade, technology breakthroughs update our lexicon with new words and phrases.

Coding in a Post-PC World Series

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:59:00 -0500

Reading PDFs on the Kindle Fire

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:29:00 -0500

I've read a lot of reviews of the Kindle Fire, and they don't discuss something very important to me — reading PDF files on the Fire

Software AG / Terracotta at Process World 2011

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:12:45 -0400

I recently had a chance to speak with a number of executives at Terracotta as well as Software AG (which recently acquired the company) about their combined strategy.

OpenGL iPhone Games with Cocos2D Review

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:16:00 -0400

iOS developer Todd Moore has recorded a series of five videos with O'Reilly Media that showcases Cocos2D for iPhone in a conversational screencast format. Read on to learn if it is worth the nearly 20-dollar price to stream/download the videos.

Adobe's Upcoming Flash Builder Release

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:25:00 -0400

With yesterday's news of Adobe's upcoming Flash Builder 4.5 release, Adobe is leaping forward with both feet in recognizing the so-called 'Post PC' era of computing.

Android, Airplanes, and Assembler: IDEOne

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:46:00 -0400

I spend a lot of time on airplanes. It used to be you'd often strike up a conversation with the person next to you on a plane. Over the years I met the editor of a newspaper in Roswell, New Mexico (and, yes, he was human as far as I could tell), an LA Laker Girl (no kidding)

Head in the Clouds

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:53:45 -0400

For developers, programming for the cloud, especially public clouds, is no simple task

iPad 2 Brings iOS Developers to Multicore Programming Land

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:57:00 -0400

The recently launched iPad 2 includes a 1 GHz dual-core Apple A5 System-on-a-Chip -- If you want your iOS apps to take full advantage of this powerful dual-core chip, you have to use multicore programming techniques in these apps

The iPad Fit

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:36:46 -0500

Apple iPhone iPad MacBook Convergence Mobility Notebook

Waiting for Moore's Law to Work

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:54:19 -0500

Reading the "Mobile Web Application Best Practices" a W3C Recommendation from 14 December 2010, I was struck by the similarity of the resour...

Hello Android (and the Google Nexus-S)

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:21:21 -0500

I don't usually review hardware for DDJ, but this feels like a special case for two reasons. First, it's the buzzed-about phone of the moment, what with it being the successor to Google's "failed" (bu...

The Command Line Phone

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:42:59 -0500

I know I've mentioned it before but I have never fully bought into the whole GUI concept. There are a few exceptions--word processing and debugging come to mind. Still, like it or not, the idea behind...

Particle Code for Mobile App Freedom

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:41:35 -0400

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Guy Ben-Artzi, co-founder and CEO of Particle Code, to speak about their new cross-platform SDK for mobile application development, called the Particle Platform...

Nokia N8 and Java ME

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:08:34 -0400

Today, Nokia officially announced their new N8 mobile device, which runs Symbian and supports real Java applications (via Java ME). It's not Android - it's Symbian. And although some of the specs fall short of the iPhone and some Android phones such as the Droid Incredible, Nokia has done a nice job with the integrated camera.

Apples in the Walled Garden

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:14:15 -0400

Apple wants its users to have an optimal experience using its devices. That's what attracted people to the Macintosh and created the cult-like following that defined Mac Users and PC Users.

HP acquires Palm for $1.2 billion

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:05:20 -0400