Methods and Tools for Mobile UX Research

Published May 30th, 2013 Under User Interface | Leave a Comment

This video talks about different research methods and tools for testing mobile websites and apps. As a case study, they go over a setup and results of a recent international mobile benchmark study that we conducted using UserZoom Mobile – UserZoom’s brand new Mobile Remote Usability Testing solution. Read more

MonoTouch: C# for iPhone

Published February 27th, 2013 Under Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment

MonoTouch allows you to harness all those C# skills and most of those handy .NET/Mono libraries to create truly native apps for iOS with a sprinkle of cross-platform support. But why not just use objective-c you cry? Choice is nice, so is C# and so is the range of libraries available for Mono! Read more

Making Good Android Apps Great

Published February 11th, 2013 Under User Interface | Leave a Comment

Learn how to use advanced Android techniques to take a good app and transform it into a polished product, without being a resource hog. Features advanced coding tips and tricks, bandwidth-saving techniques, implementation patterns, exposure to some of the lesser-known API features, and insight into how to minimize battery drain by ensuring your app is a good citizen on the carrier network. Read more

HTML5 at YouTube: Stories from the Mobile Front

Published January 23rd, 2013 Under HTML | Leave a Comment

Is HTML5 ready for production code? Of course it is. This is a look into all the different HTML5 technologies we use in live code at YouTube. We’ll have a collection of tips, tricks, and best practices for HTML5 video, the track tag, getUserMedia, and more. Plus a deep dive into Mobile Video Tag development. Read more

Chrome on Android: developing HTML5 Web applications

Published January 7th, 2013 Under HTML | Leave a Comment

Developing a native mobile application that will work across all existing mobile stacks is hard. An alternative is to turn it into a Web application leveraging technologies provided by the HTML5 Web platform. Chrome on Android is a mobile browser implementing a rich set of OWP features, allowing to develop Web applications that are hardly distinguishable from native ones. Chrome on Android also provides an enjoyable debugging experience by reusing amazing Developer Tools from the desktop version of Chrome. Read more

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