Near Field Communication or NFC is one of the hottest and most talked about feature in present day smartphones. The reason it is being so popular with smartphone users is that it is intuitive and easy to use. Also, NFC is being considered as one of the most appealing future technology in Mobile domain. Invented [...]
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Giving users “power to share ” seamlessly is a feature we will find in all popular and frequently used Mobile applications. Being social is crucial for applications. Users love to share and Android knows that. Acting prudently, Android has provided API’s as well as inherent support using Intents for social integration. Here, I will explicate the [...]
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With availability of location services in all upcoming smart phones, a number of location aware applications have hit the market. Groupon, Foursquare, Loopt, Roamz and many more are now popular names among users. First of all, let us try to understand usefulness of such applications. Location aware applications are intuitive and have much better user [...]
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For past two years, Android has evolved from an immature mobile OS to a popular choice for users as well as device manufacturers. Google is continuously updating Android and adding features to make it more and more powerful and competent with other mobile OS mainly iPhone and Blackberry. One major thing which Android was lacking from its [...]
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Grid Views are powerful way of presenting data to users that won’t be as appealing if presented in tabular form. For instance, the default home screen of iPhone looks elegant when presented in grid view. Similar case can occur in your application as well. As for iPhone, sdk doesn’t provide any grid view implementation similar [...]
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