This is a summary of the paper that I am going to be delivering on Monday at MobiCASE organized by my dean at Carnegie Mellon Martin Griss. I’ll be showing a lot of examples there of good and bad native smartphone apps (putting all those pics in a blog post is probably not as effective). [...]
We are very excited to announce the release of Rhodes 2.2. Rhodes 2.2 now offers Bluetooth integration. You can communicate between smartphone devices with Bluetooth support, to desktops with Bluetooth and to external accessories. See the documentation on it in the Rhodes Developer Reference here. Rhodes also offers calendar integration now. You can create calendar [...]
The explosion of smartphone app development and usage is a great thing for programmers and users alike. People are productive and entertained in so many more places and situations than they ever were. But as exciting as new smartphones and their apps are, developing for them is like going back three decades in computer science. [...]
