ComponentSource News | Wireless, Handheld and Mobile

Resco MobileForms Toolkit 2012 released

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:23:00 GMT

Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7 and iOS applications created with Resco MobileApp Studio

New release adds smooth scrolling, optimized drawing, aliased rounded corners and advanced customizations.

Resco MobileForms Toolkit can be used to develop applications for multiple mobile platforms including Windows Mobile, Tablet PC, Windows Phone 7, iPhone and iPad and Android. It consists of suites of WinForms and Silverlight controls that allow developers to quickly design and build mobile forms. The following editions are available:

Updates in 2012

A new set of controls with smooth touch scrolling, optimized drawing, aliased round corners and advanced customization
New options to define data source, background, text size, fonts, colors and touch scroll behavior
New elements that can be added to a panel: (UIAnimatedLabel, UIGridPanel, UIRollerPanel, UIButton, UICheckBox, UIRollerPicker, UIColorList, UIImage, UISpinButton,UIColorPicker, UILabel, UIStackPanel, UIColorRoller, UIOptionView, UITextBox, UIComboBox, UIPanel, UIUniformGrid, UIDateTimePicker, UIRadioButton, UIWrapPanel, UIDateTimeRoller and UIRoller)
Improvements to chart controls for Windows Phone, iOS and Android

About Resco

Founded in 1999, Resco is a global company that specializes in development of controls, libraries and developer tools for mobile application development. Resco products have been used by more than 3,000 corporate customers worldwide. Resco is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Microsoft VS Partner and Certified for Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Identify Mobile Web Traffic

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:27:00 GMT

A sample of the mobile devices supported in 51Degrees.mobi Device Data.

Deliver an online customer experience with tailored browsing, simplified transactions and faster page loading.

51Degrees.mobi Device Data contains information about thousands of different mobiles, tablets, games consoles and other mobile devices. By using this device data, a Web developer can automatically redirect users to a device type specific Web site. Improve your customer experience by customizing your mobile Web site to suit every individual visitor. Validate a user's device type before offering downloadable content or attempting to interact. Maximize performance and availability with locally stored and automatically updated data. No cloud service involved.

Features

High performance 'binary' format option with 51Degrees.mobi API
XML format providing easy access to data
Secure, reliable, always-available usage installed in your environment
Structured device data including full dictionary of properties and values
Developed and maintained from reliable sources, including real devices, manufacturer's specifications, our usage information and Web sites
Quality control process validates each piece of device information

About 51Degrees.mobi

Since 2005 the 51Degrees.mobi team have been creating mobile sites and providing consultancy services. 51Degrees.mobi was founded in April 2009 when they released an open source version of an ASP.NET module.

Mono for Android updated

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:35:00 GMT

Create Android applications in Visual Studio using Mono for Android.

Mono for Android enables developers to use Microsoft Visual Studio to create C# and .NET based applications that run on Android phones and tablets. Developers can use their existing skills and reuse code and libraries that have been built with .NET, while taking advantage of native Android APIs.

Updates in 1.2

Garbage Collection - Many important bug fixes to the garbage collector specific to Android.
Android SDK Fixes - Mono for Android now works around the Android SDK bug which prevented the emulator from launching when the Android SDK directory contained spaces.

About Xamarin

Xamarin was founded in May of 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Their mission is to produce the best software development tools in the world, and to make it fast, easy and fun to build great mobile applications. Xamarin is composed of more than 20 members of the team that built Mono, with ten years of experience working together to create a great developer platform.

MonoTouch 5.0 released

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:17:00 GMT

UI and imaging apps for iPhone created with MonoTouch.

New version introduces support for features found on iOS 5 including Twitter and Bluetooth integration.

MonoTouch is a software development kit that contains a suite of compilers, libraries and tools for integrating with Apple's iPhone SDK. It includes Microsoft .NET base class libraries along with managed libraries for taking advantage of native iPhone APIs. Also included is a cross-compiler that can be used for turning .NET executable files and libraries directly into native applications for distribution on the Apple Apps Store or for deployment to enterprise iPhone users.

Updates in 5.0.2

iCloud - With iCloud you can access cloud storage to upload user files and automatically sync them, wirelessly, between other computers and devices.
Twitter Integration - Take advantage of easy Twitter access, URL shortening, photo uploads, geolocation, and more, all with a simple and easy to use API.
AirPlay - Stream audio, video and photos from iOS devices directly to an HDTV (via Apple TV) or take advantage of encrypted streams using HTTP Live Streaming.
Bluetooth - Using the MonoTouch Bluetooth APIs you can easily access and communicate with external Bluetooth hardware devices and accessories.
Newsstand - Use MonoTouch to interact with the new home screen folder Newsstand to publish and update magazines and newspaper subscriptions. Handle updates in the background without interrupting the user.
Core Image - The new Core Image API allows access to many built-in features such as applying effects to photos and videos, auto-enhance, reduce red-eye, and facial recognition.

About Xamarin

Xamarin was founded in May 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. They produce software development tools that make it fast, easy and fun to build great mobile applications. Xamarin is composed of more than 20 members of the team that built Mono, with ten years of experience working together to create a great developer platform.

Four new controls for Windows Phone

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:10:00 GMT

Example apps developed with ComponentOne Studio for Windows Phone.

ComponentOne Studio for Windows Phone 2011 v3 adds ContextMenu, DateTimePicker, ProgressBar and ToggleSwitch controls.

ComponentOne Studio for Windows Phone expands your toolbox with UI controls for data visualization, rich text, data input and layout, as well as four class libraries which speed up development time. Designed to enhance the user experience of the Windows Phone 7, these ComponentOne controls provide you with powerful and unique functionality allowing you to build better and more attractive mobile applications.

ComponentOne Studio for Windows Phone is also included in ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight, ComponentOne Studio Enterprise and ComponentOne Ultimate.

Updates in 2011 v3

C1ContextMenu Control - Provides touch-sensitive menus that can display additional commands while saving UI space.
C1DateTimePicker Control - Provides a single, intuitive UI for selecting date and time values.
C1ProgressBar Control - Visually indicates the progress of an operation.
C1ToggleSwitch Control - Provides a simple, gesture-friendly on-off switch for user input.
Excel - Read and write Microsoft Excel files (XLSX) with this easy-to-use class library.
FlexGrid - Display tabular data across columns and down rows with this simple, yet powerful grid control.
Gauges - Visualize your data and create dashboard apps with attractive gauges.
Imaging - Edit images (PNG and JPEG) and display animated GIFs on the Phone.
PDF - Create dynamic PDF files within your Phone apps.
Zip - Compress data sent over the wire and use isolated storage efficiently and securely.
Improved PdfViewer - Performance has been drastically improved and the rendering has been enhanced with hardware-accelerated bitmap caching.
Enhanced Chart - Improved touch interaction.

About ComponentOne

ComponentOne has received numerous industry and user accolades including awards from SDTimes, The Code Project, TechWeb, Software Development Magazine, Visual Studio Magazine, Society for Technical Communication and SQL Server Magazine.

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, ComponentOne is a privately held company with offices throughout the world.

Knovial joins ComponentSource

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:59:40 GMT

iOSKit 1.0 speeds up iPhone and iPad application development.

iOSKit is an iOS developer convenience toolkit designed to make life easier for IOS programmers by reducing the time it takes to build simple forms and applications. Developers using iOSKit will save hundreds of hours developing iPhone and iPad forms, network busy indicators, saving data, doing validation and more. iOSKit makes it easy for you to create Add and Edit screens, it provides a wide variety of editors with the advantage of building your own by extending the iOSKit Attribute Editor API. With iOSKit you can easily store and retrieve any type of data with one line of code using the iOSKitDataCenter. iOSKit comes with 12 months of free updates so you benefit from all new features and enhancements as they are released.

Features

Easily create add and edit screens in minutes
Support for all major field types
Field validation using regular expressions
ArraySaver makes it easy to save and retrieve data
VarTunnel stores object data
Nested Array methods make it easy to use hierarchical data
Code a network indicator with one line of code

Develop iPhone and iPad applications in minutes, easily creating complex forms, with validation, save and manage data, using iOSKit.

In light of the iPhone and the iPad's growing popularity and usage among today's consumers, the demand for various applications that can be downloaded and used via iPhones and iPads has skyrocketed. There is an application for virtually every aspect of daily living: games, fitness management, business organization, social networking, health care systems, and the list go on. Thus, programmers have recognized the potential success in developing applications for the iPhone and the iPad. However, it's a fact that a lot of programmers spend hundreds of hours trying to build the necessary forms, storing data and retrieving them, and many other processes that are prerequisite to application development.

Finally, there is a product that provides an ultimate solution for iPhone and iPad application developers. With iOSKit, programmers will find themselves building programs in shorter amounts of time, saving hundreds of precious hours dedicated to developing iPhone and iPad forms, doing field validations using regular expressions, saving data, charting, and many others. iOSKit will take the bulk of the heavy work and leave programmers with an easier workspace for developing their apps. iOSKit, with its lineup of features, redefines the face of IOS application programming. The product lets programmers easily create Add and Edit screens in no time. Before, programmers would have to spend hours trying to create simple iPhone and iPad forms. With the iOSKit, forms can be built in a matter of minutes. If there is a need to extend the product in order to generate new form options as the programmer deems necessary, iOSKit will easily allow them to choose from a selection of editors; or, programmers can choose to create their own editor with the iOSKit Attribute Editor API.

Another feature of iOSKit is that it has a DataCenter that simplifies data saving and retrieval. With just one line of code, the iOSKitDataCenter quickly stores and retrieves whatever type of data the programmer supplies. The VarTunnel stores object data and hierarchical data which is easier to use with the product's Nested Array Methods. iOSKit also has support for all major field types.

iOSKit currently includes the following components

Add Edit View Controller - A powerful way to create add edit views for inputting and editing data, with validation, data specific editors and a developer API for creating custom editors - Can be accessed through IOSKitAddEditViewController class.
Array Saver - A great way to easily store simple arrays of data for accessing the next time your app launches - Can be accessed through IOSKitArraySaver class
Var Tunnel - A powerful way to store data in an object that can be accessed by other objects. Works hand in hand with Add Edit View Controller to provide an easy way to have objects that have a value that is different from what is desired to be shown on screen - Can be accessed through IOSKitVarTunnel class
Nested Array Methods - Convenient methods to aid in data layout in your apps, especially when using UITableView. - can be accessed through existing NSArray and NSMutableArray classes
Network Indicator Queue - Convenient way to use the Network Indicator found on iOS devices

Ability to create add/edit screens in minutes
Would you like to create forms in minutes vs. hours? IOSKit makes it easy to create add and edit forms.

Ability to chose from a wide variety of editors, or build your own editor with the iOSKit Attribute Editor API
Easily extend IOSKit to create new form options as you need them.

iOSKitDataCenter
Easily store and retrieve any type of data with just one line of code.

New features added all the time
Knovial are adding new features all-the-time. Your purchase includes 12 months of updates for free so you get the latest capabilities as they become available.

Reduce development time drastically
Easily reduce the time to develop applications by hours.

About Knovial

Knovial is a full service web technology firm offering more than a decade of experience in developing innovative solutions, websites and applications. After developing iPhone and iPad applications for the last 3 years, the team at Knovial decided there had to be a better way to design forms and validations, plus other common IOS development tasks so they created a better way and iOSKit was born.

BCGMobile for Windows Phone 7 released

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:06:57 GMT

Selection of controls included in BCGMobile for Windows Phone.

Speed up development of mobile applications targeting Windows Phone 7.0 and Mango.

BCGMobile for Windows Phone contains a set of highly demandable controls including Chart, Gauge, Planner and Calculator. BCGMobile for Windows Phone is suitable for development with Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend with Windows Phone add-ons. The highlighted features are: Advanced Chart control, calendar, gauges, calculator and more.

Features

Advanced Chart Control. Professional Chart Control for Windows Phone contains over 12 chart types (Line, Area, Column and Bar, Pie and Doughnut, Funnel, Pyramid etc.) with extensive customization features, built-in animation effects and predefined color themes. The ability to create custom color themes and support for custom models for various chart elements like data markers, data labels and legend items allows the creation of beautifully looking charts in minutes.

Gauge components. BCGMobile includes several gauge types - Circular gauges, linear gauges, State indicator, led and numeric indicators. All of them have great opportunities for customization. It's easy to create gauges with colored ranges and multiple scales, using a variety of customizable color themes. Now you can combine Gauge components with Chart controls to employ visually stunning digital dashboards in your mobile applications.

Planner (Calendar) Control. The Planner control is designed to create and manage events such as appointments, meetings, etc. It's possible to view the events of one day, one week, or the entire month. Appointment and scheduling capabilities of this control allow the creation of single appointments, all-day and multi-day appointments, view and managing concurrent appointments and highlighting "particular days" such as holidays. You can apply various color themes and custom colors to all elements of the Planner control. The Planer is suitable for scheduling mobile applications.

Calculator. The Calculator control implements the functionality of a mathematical calculator. You can use a lot of built-in extended calculator features like 'Custom button themes', 'Custom display', 'User-defined actions' and others to include a feature rich calculator into your mobile application.

About BCGSoft

BCGSoft Ltd. specializes in the development of business components for Microsoft Windows. Customer satisfaction is their first priority and as such they aim to produce top quality software. User interface programming is not always easy, but BCGSoft do their best to help developers to incorporate into their applications the most advanced technologies available on the market today.

ComponentOne Studio for Windows Phone launched

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:57:00 GMT

Example apps developed with ComponentOne Studio for Windows Phone.

Enhance your Windows phone applications with this collection of over 15 user interface components.

Features

15+ Windows Phone Controls and Growing
ComponentOne Studio for Windows Phone includes over 15 UI controls for data visualization, text editing, layout, and navigation. Plus, you get four code libraries which speed up development time. Studio for Windows Phone not only fills the gap with what's missing in the standard toolkit, but it adds more enterprise-level features you can't get in the box.

Metro UI Design
Studio for Windows Phone supports the Metro UI design and interaction guidelines as specified by Microsoft. Each visual control supports a Metro theme used by default, so you can feel confident that your apps will look nice on the device.

Supports Default Phone Theme
Studio for Windows Phone controls automatically inherit the Windows Phone theme by default, but using a custom theme is just as easy.

ClearStyle Technology for XAML Styling Made Easy
ComponentOne ClearStyle technology allows developers to easily change control colors without having to modify control templates. By just setting a few brush properties in Visual Studio you can quickly give a unique look to any UI control without having to work in Expression Blend or hire a professional designer.

Advanced Data Visualization
With over 30 chart types, and a wide range of color palettes, your charting apps are just a few clicks away. Chart brings animation, advanced features, and user interaction capabilities to your Windows Phone applications. With a variety of designs and shapes, Gauges give you dashboard-style visualization perfect for the mobile platform. Or you can visualize your data geographically with Maps.

Tabular Data Editing
The FlexGrid control provides you with tabular data editing on the Windows Phone. Display data records across columns and down rows with this simple, yet powerful grid control. Plus, unlock advanced features such as sorting, cell merging, and even editing with a platform-specific UI.

Display and Edit Rich Text
ComponentOne RichTextBox for Windows Phone is a Windows Phone 7 control which enables rich text editing in both RTF and HTML formats.

Code Sharing with Silverlight
Studio for Windows Phone controls share the same codebase with ComponentOne's Studio for Silverlight. Developers already familiar with Silverlight will be able to create new applications for Windows Phone without a steep learning curve. Reuse code and XAML and save development time.

ComponentOne Studio for Windows Phone includes:

Chart - Visualize your data with advanced charts supporting all popular chart types, interaction, data labels, and animations
CoverFlow - Visually navigate through items in an animated, three-dimensional graphical UI
DockPanel - Dock elements to the top, bottom, left, and right edges of any parent container
Excel - Read and write Microsoft Excel files (XLSX) with this easy-to-use class library
FlexGrid - Display tabular data across columns and down rows with this simple, yet powerful grid control
Gauges - Visualize your data and create business dashboards with attractive gauges
Imaging - Edit images (PNG and JPEG) and display animated GIFs in your apps
LayoutTransformer - Rotate, skew, translate, and scale any elements of your UI with ease
Maps - Display map tiles, or render KML files, and superimpose your own data onto the maps with this smooth viewer control
MaskedTextBox - Provide input mask validation such as phone numbers
NumericBox - Display and edit formatted numeric values such as currencies and percentages
PDF - Create dynamic PDF documents within your phone apps
PdfViewer - Add PDF viewing capabilities to your Windows Phone apps
Reflector - Display a 2D or 3D reflection of any element
RichTextBox - Display and edit RTF and HTML with support for common text decorations, hyperlinks, tables and more
UniformGrid - Neatly display child elements of equal size in rows and columns
WrapPanel - Create flowing layouts that wrap content vertically or horizontally
Zip - Compress data sent over the wire and use isolated storage efficiently and securely

About ComponentOne

ComponentOne has provided a wide range of Microsoft Visual Studio components, IDE platform development tools and applications for over 22 years. This includes ComponentOne Studio Enterprise, which represents a broad and complete set of tools and solutions for Microsoft Windows, Web and Mobile application developers. ComponentOne has continued leadership in the Microsoft Visual Studio component industry and is a premier partner of Microsoft. It also offers ComponentOne SharePoint Web Parts, custom Web Parts that enable you to deliver rich, compelling SharePoint sites without writing a line of code; ComponentOne Doc-To-Help, a long-recognized product for technical communicators who write and develop Help systems; and ComponentOne DemoWorks, a screen recording tool to produce WMV, Flash, GIF, AVI, EXE and Java files.

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, ComponentOne is a privately held company with offices throughout the world.

Xamarin joins ComponentSource

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:29:00 GMT

UI and imaging apps for iPhone created with MonoTouch.

MonoTouch and Mono for Android allow you to use C# and .NET to develop mobile apps for iOS and Android.

MonoTouch allows you to create C# and .NET applications for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad while taking advantage of iPhone APIs, and reusing existing .NET code, libraries, and skills. MonoTouch is a software development kit that contains a suite of compilers, libraries and tools for integrating with Apple's iPhone SDK. MonoTouch includes Microsoft .NET base class libraries along with managed libraries for taking advantage of native iPhone APIs. Also included is a cross-compiler that can be used for turning .NET executable files and libraries directly into native applications for distribution on the Apple Apps Store or for deployment to enterprise iPhone users. In addition, Xcode integration enables application developers to test on the device or in Apple's iPhone Simulator and ship applications to the Apple Apps Store for distribution.

Features

Mono for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
C# and .NET on the iPhone
.NET Bindings to Native APIs
Distribute on the Apple App Store
Enterprise deployable
MonoDevelop Integration
XCode Integration

Mono for Android is a software development kit for Windows and Mac OS X users to create native applications for Android based phones, tablets, and other devices with .NET programming languages. Developers can use their existing skills and reuse code and libraries that have been built with .NET, while taking advantage of native Android APIs.

Features

C# and .NET on Android phones and tablets
.NET Bindings to Native APIs
Distribute on the Android Market, and other Android App Stores
Enterprise deployable
Visual Studio 2010 Integration

Xamarin take over support of MonoTouch and Mono for Android
Xamarin obtained a perpetual license to all the intellectual property of Mono, MonoTouch, Mono for Android, Mono for Visual Studio and will continue updating and selling those products. Xamarin will be providing the support for all of the existing MonoTouch, Mono for Android and Mono for Visual Studio customers.

For more information visit:
SUSE and Xamarin Partner to support Mono customers

About Xamarin

51Degrees.mobi .NET Mobile Framework 1.2 released

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:38:00 GMT

Examples of platforms supported by 51Degrees.mobi .NET Mobile Framework.

Adds support for MediumTrust configuration in .NET 4, plus new adapter sets for HP TouchPad and other HP webOS devices.

51Degrees.mobi .NET Mobile Framework extends Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 with a new set of project types and controls to enable ASP.NET developers to create web sites that will work on any mobile device and perform considerably quicker than standard ASP.NET. From Apple iPads, to smart phones like Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone 7 and Web OS, to feature phones running Symbian S40, 51Degrees.mobi will support them all with a single codebase and web site. You don't need to learn new skills because it's all built on ASP.NET.

Updates in 1.2

Supports MediumTrust configuration in .Net 4
Support for multi selection lists on webOS
Has new adapter sets for HP TouchPad and other HP webOS devices
Five standard themes added to ensure consistent look and feel

About 51Degrees.mobi

51Degrees.mobi ensures your organization is prepared for the mobile Web and the influence it will have upon your business. Mobile Web applications built using ASP.NET Web Forms perform quickly and present a compelling user experience on all mobile devices.Compared to native mobile applications 51Degrees.mobi's approach provides almost all the benefits for 10% of the cost, time and risk using the ASP.NET skills you and your team already have. 51Degrees.mobi key values include:

Supporting all mobile phone types including; Android, iPhone, Meego, Symbian, webOS, Windows Phone / Mobile.
Testing and optimizing their software on 100s of real mobile handsets.
Ensuring components are performance tuned for the low bandwidth environment of mobile web browsing.
Enhancing existing ASP.NET controls to support mobile browsers.

NetAdvantage for Windows Phone launched

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:44:00 GMT

Data Chart, Gauge and Barcode sample applications in Infragistics NetAdvantage for Windows Phone.

Develop rich, innovative mobile applications for Windows Phone 7 devices.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for Windows Phone provides you with rich, innovative mobile UI controls to build high-end mobile user experiences for Microsoft Windows Phone 7. The controls are high performance with eye-catching data visualizations, mobile form factor optimization, touch gesture support, and alignment with Metro usability guidelines. Infragistics NetAdvantage for Windows Phone is a lightweight toolset for building mobile user experiences, interactive data visualizations and mobile dashboards based on the NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization controls. Infragistics controls give you a shared XAML experience from desktop to Web to mobile so your users have the same real-time experience "on the phone" as they would expect from a desktop application.

NetAdvantage for Windows Phone controls deepen your toolbox with the high performance charts, bullet graphs, gauges, barcodes, barcode readers, sliders, windows, message boxes and more that you need to get started today in creating your own rich and vivid Microsoft Windows Phone 7 applications. NetAdvantage for Windows Phone includes an annual subscription to developer support, source code, all updates and upgrades, documentation and samples.

Features

Mobile UI Controls - Lightweight mobile user interface controls and vibrant data visualization controls optimized for the mobile form factor of a Microsoft Windows Phone 7 device
Barcode Controls - Provides you with the ability to render on-screen barcode images in Code 128, UCC/EAN-128, Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5 (ITF-14), GS1 DataBar, MaxiCode, PDF 417, Royal Mail (RM4SCC), Intelligent Mail, EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A and UPC-E
Barcode Reader - Supports reading many standard and widely used barcode symbologies from a webcam-equipped Microsoft Windows Phone 7 device
Bullet Graph - Displays a simple and concise view of key performance indicators (KPI) so you can create next generation mobile dashboards
Data Chart - Provides heavy-duty data visualization with the ability to add statistical and technical indicators
Treemap - Show the relative weight of data points at more than one level of detail without requiring users to drilldown into the graphic, giving mobile users a top-down look into the hierarchical relationships of their data
Gauges - Build relevant business scorecard-style applications and rich, informative mobile dashboards with radial, linear, digital and hybrid (combination) gauges.
Info Box - Display informational "hints" to end users
Message Box - Stylishly convey your messages and display various dialog options that can be customized
Window - Display modal and non-modal windows in specific positions or areas with application bar hiding, full screen mode, and outside-tap closing
IG Theme - Allows mobile application developers to have a complete visual theme to create and style modern applications, without relying on the Microsoft Office brand

About Infragistics

Infragistics has been a market leader in the presentation layer components industry for over 18 years. With a comprehensive portfolio of multi-platform Enterprise Software products and services, it has achieved global reach in nearly every Fortune 2000 company. Infragistics empowers developers to build and style great application user interfaces for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF and JSF, and additionally offers user interface test tools, support, training and consulting services.

51Degrees.mobi improves support for iPad

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:47:35 GMT

Mobile applications built using 51Degrees.mobi .NET Mobile Framework.

V1.1 also includes AutoSize optimization for different mobile devices and 5 new themes for a consistent look and feel.

Updates in 1.1

Better AutoSize control optimization for different mobile devices
Better support for iPad list controls
Five standard themes added to ensure consistent look and feel
Projects created with previous versions will automatically prompt to be upgraded to the latest installed version
Complete control over the Calendar control look and feel

About 51Degrees.mobi

51Degrees.mobi ensures your organisation is prepared for the mobile Web and the influence it will have upon your business. Mobile Web applications built using ASP.NET Web Forms perform quickly and present a compelling user experience on all mobile devices.Compared to native mobile applications 51Degrees.mobi's approach provides almost all the benefits for 10% of the cost, time and risk using the ASP.NET skills you and your team already have. 51Degrees.mobi key values include:

Supporting all mobile phone types including; Android, iPhone, Meego, Symbian, webOS, Windows Phone / Mobile.
Testing and optimising their software on 100s of real mobile handsets.
Ensuring components are performance tuned for the low bandwidth environment of mobile web browsing.
Enhancing existing ASP.NET controls to support mobile browsers.

MonoTouch adds Parallel Frameworks support

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:50:00 GMT

UI and imaging apps for iPhone created with MonoTouch.

Version 4.0.3 also uses LLVM to reduce your executable size and improve your applications performance.

MonoTouch from Novell is a software development kit that contains a suite of compilers, libraries and tools for integrating with Apple's iPhone SDK. MonoTouch includes Microsoft .NET base class libraries along with managed libraries for taking advantage of native iPhone APIs. Also included is a cross-compiler that can be used for turning .NET executable files and libraries directly into native applications for distribution on the Apple Apps Store or for deployment to enterprise iPhone users. In addition, Xcode integration enables application developers to test on the device or in Apple's iPhone Simulator and ship applications to the Apple Apps Store for distribution.

Updates in 4.0.3

Core Mono Runtime upgraded to Mono 2.10:

Defaults to .NET 4.0 APIs
Parallel Frameworks support
C# 4.0 support

LLVM-backed optimizing compiler

Use LLVM to reduce your executable size and improve your application performance

Support for iOS SDK 4.3

New APIs bound

About Novell

Mixed IT environments are a reality for almost all organizations, but you can't let this undermine your ability to compete. Through its infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. The three Novell leadership dimensions, working as one, deliver this promise of value: Actionable Strategy, Workable Vision and Extraordinary Talent.

Resco MobileApp Studio adds Android & iOS support

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:48:00 GMT

Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7 and iOS applications created with Resco MobileApp Studio

Version 2011 also includes support for iPhone, iPad and iPad2.

Resco MobileApp Studio is a Microsoft Visual Studio based developer platform, which can be used to develop mobile applications for multiple mobile platforms (Windows Mobile, Windows CE, Tablet PC, Windows Phone 7, iPhone and iPad and Android). MobileApp Studio consists of suites of WinForms and Silverlight controls, together with advanced designers and tools allowing developers to quickly design and build mobile forms. Since all the controls and tools are integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio, they can be easily accessed and used from this familiar development environment using programming languages, such as C# or Visual Basic .NET. iOS support is provided with MobileApp Studio through the MonoTouch developer tool, extended with Resco's UI controls. Resco MobileApp Studio is now available in the following individual packages:

Updates in 2011

MobileApp Studio now includes support for Android and iOS.
You can now purchase MobileApp Studio as Universal, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7, iOS and Android Editions
The iOS edition has support for iPhone, iPad and iPad2

Resco has extensive experience with development of mobile applications ranging from system utilities through multimedia applications, and games to comprehensive enterprise solutions. Resco .NET controls' design is based on this experience allowing you to easily create solutions that mobile users need.

aiCharts for Android V1.5 released

Fri, 27 May 2011 13:15:00 GMT

Chart examples in aiCharts for Android.

Add charting to your Android applications.

aiCharts for Android is a developer library that provides a professional charting engine for all kinds of applications. Designed especially for Android OS it is optimized for battery, memory and CPU usage. With a few lines of code developers can use and customize charts according to their own application style. aiCharts for Android includes many visual effects, transparency, custom drawing, data binding etc. Support of XML templates makes the process of customization easy. aiCharts for Android does not use any low level native libraries and is 100% safe for Android OS users, as it runs in the completely safe managed environment of Dalvik Java VM.

Advanced Visual Customization

aiCharts customization provides freedom for your creativeness. The library provides several layers of customization. One of them is declarative. You can attach images from Android application resources to layout XMLs in the standard Android way. Second is a real-time approach, which allows attaching of custom code during drawing. The developer has full access to all aspects of drawing. Greatest freedom is a combination of code and style, so visual templates is third way of customization. You can create XML templates defining style and layout for the visual representation of data, which are easily applied in one line of code.

Supported chart types:

Line
Spline
Point
Bubble
Column
Stack Column
Stack Column 100%
Bar
Stack Bar
Stack Bar 100%
Range Column
Range Area
Doughnut

Area
Spline Area
Stack Area
Stack Area 100%
Pie
Polar
HiLoCandlestick
Funnel
Pyramid
Rose
Step Area

About ArtfulBits

ArtfulBits was established by enterprising professionals with a strong IT background in March 2005. The company's development center is situated in Lviv, in the West of Ukraine and the representative office is placed in Czech Republic. ArtfulBits provides custom software development and IT outsourcing services for its clients from the USA, Canada and Europe. In December 2007 it employed over 60 highly qualified and talented IT specialists. ArtfulBits' mission is to achieve leadership positions in local and regional markets through professional IT services and serving its clients by introducing the best industry standards.

51Degrees.mobi .NET Mobile Framework updated

Wed, 18 May 2011 10:39:34 GMT

Mobile applications built using 51Degrees.mobi .NET Mobile Framework.

51Degrees.mobi .NET Mobile Framework ensures your organisation is prepared for the mobile Web and the influence it will have upon your business. Mobile Web applications built using 51Degrees.mobi .NET Mobile Framework products perform quickly and present a compelling user experience. Compared to native mobile applications 51Degrees.mobi's approach provides almost all the benefits for 10% of the cost, time and risk.

Updates in 1.0.7.10

The ImageHandler has been updated to ensure the Content-Length header field is not set when an HTTP 304 response code is being sent. This fixes a rare issue of images not displaying in Safari browsers
MobileProfile has been enhanced to handle corrupt or invalid ProfileID cookies
The Calendar control is now enhanced to show a preview of the TableItemStyles at Design time
SelectedDates property of Calendar control is no longer visible in the designer
The JavaScript version of the Calendar control has been updated to ensure the next and previous month navigation buttons are disabled correctly in all min and max date range scenarios
This release contains the latest WURFL device database file released on 24th April 2011
Login control has been updated to avoid generating design-time HTML tags and attributes for default values
The grid layout version of the Calendar control will no longer override a style sheet that sets the CSS background-color attribute for the SelectedDay
The MobileProfile has been updated to prevent database access exceptions being generated in some situations shortly after a User Instance database is automatically created

About 51Degrees.mobi

Supporting all mobile phone types including; Android, iPhone, Meego, Symbian, webOS, Windows Phone / Mobile.
Testing and optimising their software on 100s of real mobile handsets.
Ensuring components are performance tuned for the low bandwidth environment of mobile web browsing.
Enhancing existing ASP.NET controls to support mobile browsers.

Resco MobileForms Toolkit Android launched

Fri, 06 May 2011 17:14:00 GMT

Creating an Andriod application using Resco MobileForms Toolkit Android Edition.

Development for mobile devices with controls for Android.

Resco MobileForms Toolkit Android Edition is a set of components optimized for Mono for Android and Android devices. The components and libraries are designed to eliminate hardware limitations of mobile devices, such as small screen or lower performance. A ground-breaking technology, seamlessly integrated in the components, offers multiple benefits to the Android developer community. MobileForms Toolkit Android Edition controls include AdvancedList, DetailView, MonthCalendar, WeekCalendar and TabBar. All Resco MobileForms Toolkit Editions include Royalty-free distribution, 1 Year of free upgrades, updates, new component releases and support. Resco MobileForms Toolkit Renewals are also available.

Features

List control for MonoDroid - Resco AdvancedList

Data is organized in a well legible form without the need for a horizontal scrollbar
Each row of the list is displayed using a Row Template containing Cells that can be freely positioned within the Row area
The selected row can use a different Row Template for displaying data
Cells can be represented as formatted Text, Image, or Button

Elegant input forms for MonoDroid - Resco DetailView

Input controls are collected in a compact environment
Items allow grouping of questions into blocks which make the form clear
Supports text, numeric, date, time, check, combo, link input

Scheduling control for MonoDroid - Resco MonthCalendar

Month/Year scheduling control optimized for mobile devices
Advanced graphic capabilities
The CustomizeDayCell event permits advanced day formatting

Scheduling control for MonoDroid - Resco WeekCalendar

Day/Week appointment scheduling control optimized for mobile devices
Day/Week View
Customizable appointment description and color
Standardized look and feel

Stylish Tab control for Droid - Resco TabBar

Simple and effective Tab bar with new graphic capabilities optimized for mobile devices
Advanced graphics capabilities
Tabs can be defined by a text and/or image or both
TouchControl functionality

About Resco

Quickly access a phone's call history database

Thu, 05 May 2011 17:29:00 GMT

Mobile apps created using Resco MobileForms Toolkit Windows Mobile Edition.

Resco MobileForms Toolkit Windows Mobile 2011 Vol 3 adds Phone, CallHistory, SIM, GPS and LocationServices controls.

Resco MobileForms Toolkit Windows Mobile Edition is a complete set of components to aid mobile developers. The components and libraries are designed to eliminate hardware limitations of mobile devices, such as small screen or lower performance. A ground-breaking technology, seamlessly integrated in the components, offers multiple benefits to the Microsoft mobile developer community. Resco MobileForms Tookit Windows Mobile Edition is optimized for .NET Compact Framework and Windows Mobile, Windows CE, Tablet PC devices. MobileForms Toolkit controls include SmartGrid, DetailView, Toolbar, ImageButton, CustomKeyboard, MessageBox, TransparentLabel, AdvancedList, CompactChart, TabControl, ShortcutBar, KeyboardPro, ProgressBar, Tooltip, AdvancedTree, WeekCalendar, InkBox, DateTimePicker, NumericUpDown, ScrollBar, Audio, AdvancedCombo, MonthCalendar, ImageBox, TouchDateTimePicker, MaskedTextBox, TouchPanel and Zip. All Resco MobileForms Toolkit Editions include Royalty-free distribution, 1 Year of free upgrades, updates, new component releases and support. Resco MobileForms Toolkit Renewals are also available.

Updates in 2011 Volume 3

Phone - access to all device information (Bluetooth, WiFi) in your hands
CallHistory - quick access to phone's call history database
SIM - access to Subscriber Identity Module's information and phone book changes
GPS - manages the GPS location coordinates and offers the position tracking
LocationServices - implements the interface on the Google and Bing positioning services

About Resco

GPS location services for Windows Phone 7 apps

Thu, 05 May 2011 17:29:00 GMT

Creating Windows Phone 7 applications.

Resco MobileForms Toolkit Windows Phone 7 Edition 2011 Volume 3 now includes GPS and location services.

Resco MobileForms Toolkit Windows Phone 7 Edition is a set of UI controls for mobile development specifically designed for the Windows Phone 7 platform. The components and libraries are designed to eliminate hardware limitations of mobile devices, such as small screen or lower performance. A ground-breaking technology, seamlessly integrated in the components, offers multiple benefits to the Microsoft mobile developer community. Resco MobileForms Toolkit Windows Phone 7 Edition is optimized for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 devices. MobileForms Toolkit controls include AdvancedList, PhoneComboBox, PhoneImageButton, PhoneButton, DetailView, DateEditor, MessageDialog, ThemedButton, WeekCalendar, TimeEditor, PhoneSpinControl, PhoneCheckBox, MonthCalendar, PhoneTextBox and PhoneTextControl. All Resco MobileForms Toolkit Editions include Royalty-free distribution, 1 Year of free upgrades, updates, new component releases and support. Resco MobileForms Toolkit Renewals are also available.

Updates in 2011 Volume 3

GPS - encapsulates the Windows Phone 7 GPS device functionality
LocationServices - offers the GPS to/from physical address translation and the services for getting optimal route, directions and showing the results on a map

About Resco

Bee Mobile iPack adds 3 new components

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:18:00 GMT

Mobile components from Bee Mobile iPack.

iMenu, TextViewer and RoundTextBoxMultiline help you create an iPhone style user interface.

Bee Mobile iPack is a collection of 20+ .NET CF (.NET Compact Framework) controls. All controls were designed to give your Windows Mobile applications a modern and attractive look taking them to a new visual level. Ease of use as well as intuitive finger-friendly interfaces are all part of iPack. Full Visual Studio designer support allows you to see your design, which in turn decreases the development time and cost.

Updates in 2011

iMenu - create an iPhone-like menu on Compact Framework
TextViewer - easily read long text
RoundTextBoxMultiline - create attractive looking Forms with stylish input fields

About Bee Mobile

Bee Mobile was founded in 2008 by 2 experienced Windows Mobile developers with their sole vision: To help other developers with software development for mobile devices by putting their knowledge and experience into their software components. The result is a range of effective, attractive looking software components targetting .NET Compact Framework.

Build Android apps using Visual Studio

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:08:00 GMT

Creating Android applications in Visual Studio using Mono for Android.

Mono for Android lets you create C# and .NET based applications that run on Android phones and tablets.

Features

C# and .NET on Android phones and tablets
.NET Bindings to Native APIs
Distribute on the Android Market, and other Android App Stores
Enterprise deployable
Visual Studio 2010 Integration

For more information visit:
http://www.novell.com/news/press/2011/4/novell-first-to-enable-development-of-net-applications-for-android-using-microsoft-visual-studio.html

About Novell

Novell - Mixed IT environments are a reality for almost all organizations, but you can't let this undermine your ability to compete. Through our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. The three Novell leadership dimensions, working as one, deliver this promise of value: Actionable Strategy, Workable Vision and Extraordinary Talent.

51Degrees.mobi joins ComponentSource

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:15:00 GMT

Sample mobile Web applications developed using 51Degrees.mobi .NET Mobile Framework.

Build mobile web applications using ASP.NET that support all mobile handsets, devices and browsers.

51Degrees.mobi .NET Mobile Framework increases the performance of ASP.NET web sites when accessed in the low bandwidth variable technology environment of the mobile device. ASP.NET developers can be instantly productive delivering compelling user experiences without the need to learn new technologies and platforms. Existing web site infrastructure can be reused further reducing the cost of adapting an existing web site to mobile.

Features

Adapts ASP.NET to support all mobile devices.
Improves ASP.NET performance over low bandwidth mobile connections.
Data persistence optimized for "little and often" mobile usage scenarios.
New mobile controls for calendar, location, data paging, mapping and more.
All standard ASP.NET controls enhanced to support mobile features.
Real time properties for bandwidth and performance information.

Why adapt your Web site to support Mobile?
In 2008 global mobile access to the Internet exceeded desktop computer-based access for the first time. This growing trend means your business needs a mobile presence more than ever. Creating a mobile website for your organization is simple, but guaranteeing that it will work for every mobile device is where the work really begins. This is where 51Degrees.mobi .NET Framework can help, it detects the exact mobile device accessing your website and provides the best possible experience for the mobile user.

Using a standard website on mobile devices will result in a slow and confusing user experience. 51Degrees.mobi .NET Framework enables you to optimize your existing website for the mobile web ensuring all end users have the same positive experience, regardless of the handset used, from the iPad to BlackBerry and older-generation web-enabled feature phones.

How does 51Degrees.mobi help?
The continuing performance gap between mobile and desktop web speeds remains a challenge for website developers but with 51Degrees.mobi .NET Framework ASP.NET developers can easily improve the experience for mobile users by delivering only what they need to shop or browse when they visit your website. 51Degrees.mobi .NET Framework will remove excess data that will slow mobile connections down.

The Windows desktop operating system has enabled application developers to capture over 80% of the market. The variety of technologies available within the mobile environment means that this is not a possibility for native mobile applications. They cannot be ported across platforms without extensive rewrites, which are costly and slow. 51Degrees.mobi uses the browser on the mobile device to deliver the application. The 51Degrees.mobi User Interface (UI) will automatically adapt to support the mobile device and browser being used from a single code base. Smart phones and feature phones can all be supported with a single application. This approach is the most cost effective and logical means of reaching the greatest variety of mobile devices. 10% of the cost for 90% of the return.

About 51Degrees.mobi

51Degrees.mobi was founded in April 2009 when they released an open source project called 51Degrees.mobi Foundation designed to detect mobile devices and redirect initial requests from these devices to a mobile friendly home page optimised for the small screen. 100s of new Web servers go live with 51Degrees.mobi Foundation each month and it is being continually updated to support new mobile devices and features requested by developers. During 2010 and 2011 51Degrees.mobi extended the underlying components of their services so that others can easily integrate them into their Web sites and released a new product called 51Degrees.mobi .NET Mobile Framework, which enhances existing ASP.NET controls to support mobile browsers and all mobile phone types including; Android, iPhone, Meego, Symbian, webOS, Windows Phone / Mobile.

Bee Mobile iPack adds Windows CE support

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:08:00 GMT

A selection of the UI controls in Bee Mobile iPack.

2011 release also features rewritten RoundTextBox control which now supports semi-transparency.

Bee Mobile iPack is a collection of 20+ .NET Compact Framework controls. All controls were designed to give your Windows Mobile applications a modern and attractive look taking them to a new visual level. Ease of use as well as intuitive finger-friendly interfaces are all part of iPack. Full Visual Studio designer support allows you to see your design, which in turn decreases the development time and cost.

Updates in 2011

The new version contains 25 components, of which many have been fixed and improved.

The other considerable improvement is Windows CE support. All the components except for RegionControl now run on Windows CE. A new static property - UseManagedGradient must be turned on if the operating system is missing the native GradientFill API function.

Other improvements include:

ProgressBar component supports transparency - it can be rendered semi-transparent
RoundTextBox component has been rewritten from scratch. It is now completely written in managed code and it can be rendered semi-transparent
TransparentControls now contain static properties used to assign images to them. This helps to conserve memory
TouchList and TouchListLite can load PNG images from byte array - useful when images are loaded from a database or from the Web

About Bee Mobile

Bee Mobile was founded in 2008 by two experienced Windows Mobile developers with their sole vision: To help other developers with software development for mobile devices by putting their knowledge and experience into their software components. The result is a range of effective, attractive looking software components targeting .NET Compact Framework.

MonoTouch patched to V3.2.4

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:35:00 GMT

UI and imaging apps for iPhone created with MonoTouch.

Updates in V3.2.4

Fixed AudioUnit linking error on simulator and device
Completed CoreTelephone and AssetLibrary bindings
Exposed CoreGraphics marshalling constructors (for btouch users).

About Novell

MobileForms Toolkit editions released

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:03:00 GMT

A selection of mobile devices displaying Graphs, Tasks and ImageBox.

Resco MobileForms Toolkit now available in individual editions for iOS, Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7.

Resco MobileForms Toolkit Universal Edition is a complete set of cross-platform UI controls for mobile development. It includes Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7 and iOS Editions, with an Android Edition scheduled for Q1/2011. The components and libraries are designed to eliminate hardware limitations of mobile devices, such as small screen or lower performance. A ground-breaking technology, seamlessly integrated in the components, offers multiple benefits to the Microsoft, Apple and Android mobile developer community.

All Resco MobileForms Toolkit Editions include Royalty-free distribution, 1 Year of free upgrades, updates, new component releases and support. Resco MobileForms Toolkit Renewals are also available.

Resco MobileForms Toolkit Universal Edition includes Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7 and iOS Editions, with an Android Edition scheduled for Q1/2011.

The following editions are now available individually:

Resco MobileForms Toolkit iOS Edition - optimized for MonoTouch and iPhone, iPad, iPod devices.
Resco MobileForms Toolkit Windows Mobile Edition - optimized for .NET Compact Framework and Windows Mobile, Windows CE, Tablet PC devices.
Resco MobileForms Toolkit Windows Phone 7 Edition - optimized for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 devices.

For more information visit:
http://www.resco.net/developer/company/news.aspx?file=2010-11-16