...Microsoft6/6/2011Rev 1.0 | | Windows Phone 7 Guide for Android Application Developers | | About this Document 4 Target Audience 4 Conventions Used in this Document 4 Chapter 1: Introducing Windows Phone 7 Platform to Android Application Developers 5 The Developer Tools 5 Windows Phone 7 Architecture 5 Comparing the Programming Stack of Windows Phone 7 with Android 7 Summary 11 Related Resources 11 Chapter 2: User Interface Guidelines 12 Designing the Application Interface 13 Application User Interface Design 14 Comparing Windows Phone 7 and Android Navigation 18 Windows Phone 7 Frame and Page Structure 19 Application Templates 21 Summary 21 Related Resources 21 Chapter 3: The Developer and Designer Tools 23 A Comparison of Android and Windows Phone 7 Tools 23 Development Life Cycle and Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools 24 The UI Design Tools 26 Building Applications 33 Debugging 34 Summary 38 Chapter 4: C# programming 39 Managed Programming 40 A Comparison between C# Features and Java Classes 41 A Comparison of Important Class Libraries 51 The New features of C# 54 Comparing API Documentation Tools 58 NDoc 58 NDocs vs. Javadoc 61 Summary 61 Related Resources 62 Chapter 5: A Comparison of Application Life Cycles in Windows Phone 7 and Android 63 Multitasking in Android and Windows Phone 7 63 Tombstoning of Applications in Windows Phone 7 64 Life Cycle of a Windows Phone 7 Application...
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...Android vs iPhone Junyao Zhang April 12, 2010 This is a complete analysis and comparison between Android and iPhone OS. The rest of this report is organized as follows. Section ?? outlines the system architecture, history and detail management configuration. Section ?? discusses the iPhone system. In Section ??, a comparison between these two systems is presented. 1 Android Android, originally meaning “robot”, is a mobile operating system using a modified version of the Linux kernel. It was initially developed by Android Inc., a firm later purchased by Google,[?]and lately by the Open Handset Alliance[?]. It allows developers to write managed code in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries.[8] It empolys the software stack architecture, as shown in Figure 1. • Android relies on Linux version 2.6 for core system services such as security, memory management, process management, network stack, and driver model. The kernel also acts as an abstraction layer between the hardware and the rest of the software stack. It is implemented by programming language C. • The middleware level includes Runtime and Libraries. The Runtime includes core libraries, providing most of the functionality available in the core libraries of the Java programming language, and Dalvik virtual machine which allows every Android application runs in its own process. The Libraries is used by various components of the Android system, such as Media Libraries, 3D libraries...
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...Ques1. “In the innovation economy, the network will be the value innovation engine”. Provide an insightful review of the meaning of the statement along with at least two examples. An economy which is characterized by intangible assets like knowledge, innovative capabilities, technology and entrepreneurship are positioned at the centre of the model rather than as independent forces is the Innovation Economy. In such an economy, the key ingredient is the network. The main objective of the innovation economy is to boost higher productivity and lessen the prices. But the real problem with the objective is that it needed a proper collaboration between all the four forces. Network is the real bridge between the four forces which drives the innovation economy. The source of knowledge, the communication of technology, the idea of entrepreneurship and the driver of innovation is nothing but the Network. The perceived value of a user can be known through Network. In short, the innovation economy is driven entirely by network. Without network, the resources and communication could have been nearly impossible as they drive the innovation. And hence network is the value innovation engine for the innovation economy. From the above image, it is very clear that with the advancement in technology and increased pace of information sharing, the global boundaries have reduced and more or less turned blurry. The network is becoming stronger day by day and thus leading to a unique value innovation...
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...The Android operating system was introduced as open source software in 2008 by the Open Handset Alliance (including companies such as HTC, Samsung, Sony, LG and 80 other companies) which is led by Google. The Android is a growing operating system for hand phones and tablets which provided a new mobile competition against other smartphone such as the iPhone and Blackberry. A direct quote from the Open Handset Alliance concerning their main goal “The goal of the Android Open Source Project is to create a successful real-world product that improves the mobile experience for end users.” (Google Inc., 2011) The Android operating system has provided many benefits in this society, but has also been facing many securities, ethical/legal concerns. The Android operating system has demonstrated growth of technology and new expansive services such as the Google Wallet. Although the Android system has expanded rapidly and developed quickly, the Google has faced many issues concerning security and the law. The Android operating system has just received it open source software license in 2008, but yet it has surpassed the Apple iPhone OS based on the number of users; In November 2010 it has been reported by comScore MobiLens that 26% of smartphone users owned an Android device, while 25% owned an Apple device (Chung, 2011). Besides smartphones, the Google has also been distributing tablets which served as competitions against the iPad (Krill, 2011). Although Apple holds 86% of all tablet users...
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...HTC Corporation: A Smartphone Pioneer From Taiwan This report is consistent with our signed Academic Integrity Form on file with the instructor Trevor Burns, Nancy Kong, Amir Kalantar, Colin Brown, Nav Thandi, Adam Jackson Team #1 September 23rd Critical Issues HTC must address the following issues in order to build its global market share: * Branding Strategies * Research and Development Department * Second Mover Strategies * Balance of Microsoft and Android * Loss of support from Shareholders The issues stated above indicate how HTC has conducted inefficient marketing strategies. HTC’s marketing budgets grew by 78.75% in 2010 from 2009, this has helped their global market share grow by approximately 129%. In addition, the variation of operating systems HTC provides to must be addressed as precedent from competing companies have proven success in exclusivity of utilizing one OS. The various networks offered from the HTC devices has pushed them to also open multiple research and development centers which has substantially increased their selling and marketing costs by 139.43%. The research and development centers has pushed HTC to become an innovator, by releasing the newest technologies; their decision to reject the ‘me-too’ strategy has created huge opportunity costs for them. Each dollars of equity is supported by $2548 of assets, which generated a correlating $1440 in sales, which generated a net profit margin of 14.37% Analysis Branding Strategies ...
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...1. ------------------------------------------------- افضل اجهزة الموبايل في 2011 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- هل تعلم أن هناك أكثر من 5.5 مليار جهاز موبايل حول العالم؟!فسواء كنت غنياً أو فقيراً, كبيراً أو صغيراً, موظفاً أو طالباً, وبغض النظر عن مجال عملك أو حتى دراستك، فقد أصبحت الهواتف الجوّالة أحد الضروريات التي يستخدمها الجميع ليصبح أكثر الأجهزة انتشاراً بين البشر على مر التاريخ!! فما هي أفضل أنواع هذه الهواتف في وقتنا الراهن؟ من الصعوبة بمكان إيجاد إجابة قاطعة “لأفضل” أجهزة الموبايل لأن المقارنة لا تقتصر على مواصفات وإمكانيات فقط قدر اعتمادها أيضاً على أذواق وميول تختلف من شخص لآخر Samsung Galaxy S II مع المعالج الثنائي، و الشاشة النابضة بالحياة، و أدائة الرائع، فإن جهاز الجالاكسي 2 الأملس و القوي في نفس الوقت يجعل من الجهاز على قمة أجهزة الأندرويد هذه السنة. إضغط على الصورة لتكبيرها ... أبعاد الصورة الأصلية 562x501 وحجمها 115 كيلو بايت . يعتبر Samsung Galaxy S II أقوى هاتف موجود فى السوق حالياً , و قد حظى بشعبية كبيرة حول العالم أن مبيعات الجوال فى 85 يوم بلغت 5 ملايين وحدة و يجمع الهاتف بين المواصفات القوية و الخامات الممتازة و التقفيل المتميز حيث كان التقفيل الخارجى هو أهم ما يعيب جوالات سامسونج كما فى جالكسى S1 . شاشة S 2 كما هو معروف عن سامسونج لا تقارن مع غيرها , و الكاميرا ذات 8 ميجا بيكسل بدعم تصوير الفيديو 1080p فائق الدقة , مع المعالج ثنائى النواة بسرعة 1.2 جيجاهرتز , يجعلوا من الجهاز صعب المنافسة iPhone4S هو ليس ملك الهواتف المحمولة و لكنه ما زال من الأسرة الحاكمة،...
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...lack of trying. Throughout the course of the last decade, many sought to expand the control they have over their networks to almost every element of the new-media industry, from content and delivery platforms to devices and embedded software. Unfortunately, the operators overestimated their ability to control these other parts of the value chain, most strikingly in the mobile phone market. Consumers shunned the operators’ mobile portals when they found they could access their favorite PC-based Internet services “over the top” (OTT) of their mobile networks. Pouring salt into the wound, the content, devices and software companies have proved much more effective at entering each other’s markets than the operators have. Search engine Google’s Android mobile operating system (OS), for example, has effectively achieved take-up operator efforts could only ever dream of. Apple’s iTunes, meanwhile, has trumped operator music stores spectacularly in almost every market it is available in. As a result, the value chain for multiscreen services that span the PC, TV and mobile is increasingly looking like a forbidding place for telecoms operators to play. TV: the last-chance saloon for operators? Except, apparently, in one regard: TV. Numerous telecoms operators are continuing...
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...Marketing Plan for the Note Phone 1. Discuss the company’s competitors, and the strengths and weaknesses of each. There are several companies that are the Note’s competitors, so let’s start with the top competitors: The Apple iPad is the first affordable tablet computer worth owning, but it won't replace your laptop (yet). The Xoom's spec sheet is enough to make any tablet tremble, but the price is high and Google still has some work to do before its tablet software experience is as fleshed out and intuitive as Apple's. The Galaxy Tab is a beautiful product with features that will make iPad owners envious, but its in-between size and possible carrier commitments hold it back from broad appeal. The ViewPad 7 offers a solid platform for Android 2.2, but it comes off as an oversize, overpriced smartphone--not a Netbook alternative. Now there are two competitors that we want to note as their product has not hit the markets yet, but they are targeting our segment target as well, BlackBerry Playbook and the Vizio VIA tablet both are due to release their tablets in the next 3 to 6 months. But we also have to address what the competition is using as their key platform or landscape options for their tablets as this will affect the target market as well: Apple iPad - There's probably no explanation needed for this one. With a million iPads sold within the first month of its introduction, the iPad has quickly taken the lead position in the tablet category. Pros: Elegant hardware; vibrant...
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...Dropbox - Inicio rápido ¿Qué es Dropbox? Dropbox es un software que enlaza a todas tus computadoras mediante de una sola carpeta. Es la manera más fácil de respaldar y sincronizar archivos entre computadoras. • La aplicación Dropbox para escritorio es un software que observa a una carpeta en tu computadora de escritorio y sincroniza cualquier modificación que ocurra en ella con la web y con otras computadoras. El sitio web de Dropbox te permite acceder a tus archivos en cualquier computadora con un navegador web. Puedes también utilizar el sitio web de Dropbox para compartir tus archivos o carpetas con otras personas. El sitio web de Dropbox para móviles y las apps de Dropbox te permiten conectarte a tu Dropbox desde tu bolsillo, y así poder llevarte tus archivos adondequiera que vayas. • • ¿Es para mí? La transferencia de datos entre computadoras por lo general requiere subir datos mediante formularios web, conectándose a unidades de red, teniendo a mano memorias USB, y enviándote a tí mismo y a otros adjuntos por correo electrónico. Con Dropbox todos estos métodos se vuelven obsoletos. Si estás buscando una mejor manera de transferir datos por Internet o si sólo buscas una manera de aumentar la productividad de tu equipo de trabajo, Dropbox es para ti. Añadir archivos a tu Dropbox Has encontrado tu carpeta de Dropbox, y ya deseas comenzar a utilizarla. Movamos un archivo a tu carpeta de Dropbox. Paso 1 Arrastra y suelta un archivo en tu Dropbox. Paso 2...
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...Angry Birds – Tecnología Rovio, una empresa con 8 años de experiencia dedicada a crear videojuegos, había visto el iPhone como una tecnología innovadora y que debía ser aprovechada. El objetivo de la empresa era crear un juego en la plataforma iOS que permitiera explorar las ideas de negocio que ofrecía el App Store y que se volviera una solución para sus problemas financieros. Así nació el videojuego Angry Birds, el cual para el 2010 había contabilizado ya 10 millones de descargas. Al enfocarse en su tecnología, es necesario observar un panorama amplio, pues existe mucho esfuerzo tecnológico en muchos aspectos en la aplicación. El juego como tal podría considerarse un emulador de físicas, en la cual se define un espacio con gravedad que permite entonces definir variables como velocidad y aceleración. Dentro de este espacio se definen objetos cuya masa es variable y que permite definir variables como momento y peso para emular colisiones. Aunque el comportamiento de estas variables difieren de la realidad, son lo suficientemente parecidas como para brindar una experiencia al usuario muy atractiva. La interfaz de usuario también amerita reconocimiento. La intención de los creadores era brindar al usuario un juego “rápido”, en el sentido que el usuario lo utilizara en espacios de tiempos temporales de ocio, tal como: en una fila, en una estación de bus, etc. Además, querían crear un juego muy intuitivo en el cual el usuario no tuviera que aprenderse como utilizarlo sino que lo entendiera...
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...response for a certain action. The computing power required in order to simulate a human brain and the sheer capabilities to make a program that could comprehend everyday situations is impossible with todays technology. Whether or not this will ever be possible is beyond this paper. For this papers sake lets say that we were able to create a robot which would be able to surpass even Bladerunner's Nexus-6 robot and would be able to simulate consciousness in every way. It would be able to learn from what it has done in the past, be taught, feel, see, hear, think for itself, and feel empathy. If a machine is indistinguishable in every mental way from a human should that machine be granted the same rights as humans? How society views androids would be a huge factor on whether we grant them rights. If society...
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...Search function. Depending on the success of the product, the potential social impact can be huge. If it was successful, smart Google Goggles prices as cheap and smart technology of the future can be used to change the way society perceives. The field of smart wearing glasses vision of Google in front of mirrors made to display information in Real time. Google X, Google owns and operates a secret place in a laboratory created. Glasses are not sure of the exact details, but rumours and leaks to collect information from Google based on images captured by the camera attached to them, do not work. Information is one of objectives in a smaller screen. Smart wear glasses, even in places where people used to gather information. The Android operating system is based on a version of the glasses and the ability to provide Internet connectivity and GPS. Users of the device can be controlled by gestures and voice commands. (Gorman, 2006) Smart features for the arrival of the opportunity to have both positive and negative effects on society. On the positive side, wearing glasses and cannot use their hands, especially when the information is always there when you need it, you can win. Slightly negative impact on the effectiveness of this type of technology can offer a range of issues ranging from irritating to deadly. (Prowse, 2009) All these questions around a single loss is possible. The bearer, their activities and the activities of intelligence, there is a risk that...
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...This is basically a few tips on how to optimize your benefits from using Google Admob to advertise mobile apps and games. Having tried this for a while now, making some small and big mistakes, wasting some money along the way, I just felt like sharing my experience. -Admob is no doubt a very good tool for campaigning mobile apps and games especially on android platform. 1. Target to run your first campaign within same month your app goes live. This makes the most impact as apps are well featured in strategic places on the appstore within the first month of launch. 2. Be dynamic, do not just set up the campaign and leave it, watch it and make corrections as the campaign rolls on. 3. For a start, you can publish the campaign in all countries and territories, and as you progress and your app gets downloads, you can then try selecting target countries. 4. Do some research to find out popularity of your app or service in those countries – check on how similar apps and services have fared in those places. 5. Some countries are generally good when it comes to free and paid apps. They give good ads revenue on free apps and also do well in downloading paid apps, number one on this list is USA and also countries like Turkey, Germany, Spain and Italy have been good to me. 6. Monitor your campaigns periodically. It is good to check on the campaigns at least once a day (daily report) if you have the time. This way you can update the countries and cities, remove the...
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...market. Their PC desktops are their main strength and they are looking into expanding onto the new mobile platform. 2. The internet is continuously becoming faster and more accessible and with it, the hardware devices and software application of mobile platforms. This represents a multibillion market that those 3 giants are fighting for. So far, Apple has the mobile supremacy because of its app store and the devices that they offer: iPhone, iPad and iMac. Combining very up to date products with a large variety of apps creates a loyal customer base that will be willing to pay a premium price for such products and services. Google has a different approach of the mobile platform going for the advertising network. Google also offers the Android operating system for free to manufacturers while Apple charges 30% of all app sales on its App Store. Microsoft has also tried to establish a cloud and mobile presence with its Office 2013 that operates in the cloud as well as on a desktop. They also launched its Surface tablet in order to compete with Google’s Nexus 7 and Apple’s iPad. 3. The app stores are one of the most significant players in the mobile platform. According to www.statista.com website as of July...
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...Introduction……………………………………………………………….3 2. Literature review…………………………………………………………..4 3. Architecture……………………………………………………………...5-6 4. Version of android OS…………………………………………………. 7-9 5. Feature version……………………………………………………………10 6. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………11 INTRODUCTION Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system middleware and mobile applications .It is LINUX based operating system developed by google. It is specially designed for touch screen mobiles like smart phones and computer tablets. It was developed by google and later on open handset alliance. Handset Alliance, a consortium of 34hardware, software and telecom companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. When released in 2008, most of The unveiling of the Android platform on 5 November 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open the Android platform will be made available under the Apache free-software and open-source license. It allows developers to write managed code in a Java-like language that utilizes Google-developed Java libraries, but does not support programs developed in native code. Applications written in C and other languages can be compiled to ARM native code and run, but this development path isn’t officially supported by Google. Android is available as open source. Google threw open the entire...
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