Telerik blogs
  • Productivity Testing

    Mocking Services & Data in Mobile Apps

    On larger projects, where different team members work on features that are dependent on other team members' contributions, the ability to work as if the feature already exists, when in fact those developers haven't completed it, can keep overall progress chugging along. When it comes to web and mobile apps, one of the classic "divides" occurs between client and server. You might have developers focusing solely on the front end or mobile app, with others focusing on server-side concerns, like web services. Have you ever been on a team where the client-focused developers had to wait for server-side devs to complete work on HTTP services before they could continue on? This does not have to be the case. Mocking HTTP services itself isn't difficult – and depending on your client side architectural choices, you can also mock your data using your models/view models. We take a quick look at two of these options in this post.
    December 03, 2013
  • Mobile

    What is Cloud Code and Why Should You Care?

    An easy-to-use Back-end-as-a-service (BaaS) can make rapidly developing your app not only a possibility, but an enjoyable experience. A good BaaS will work for simple "CRUD-based" (or "forms-over-data") apps as well as more complicated scenarios. The trouble is that when your app outgrows the simpler scenarios, you often need "hooks" on the server side for things like validation, record transformation and more. When you're using Everlive, this is where "Cloud Code" comes in.
    November 07, 2013
  • Mobile

    Remote Debugging Android Devices With jsHybugger

    Debugging in a simulated environment is an important step in developing hybrid mobile apps - but there will inevitably come a time where you need to debug on the device. Apple supports remote debugging for iOS 6+ devices (using Safari's developer tools) - but what option do you have if you need to remote debug on an Android device? Lucky for you, there is jsHybugger. In this post, we explore how jsHybugger enables helpful remote debugging features for Android devices.
    November 05, 2013
  • Release

    Telerik's Webinar Week Session on Icenium

    On November 1st, 2013, Jim Cowart and Rob Lauer led an hour-long webinar demonstrating the Icenium Extension for Visual Studio - going over how to get started writing hybrid mobile apps using Visual Studio, using Custom Cordova plugins and more. This post includes a link to the recording, as well as a few of the questions from our Q&A session at the end of the webinar.
    November 04, 2013
  • Mobile

    How to Debug & Profile Your Hybrid Mobile App Using the Icenium Extension for Visual Studio

    Good debugging tools are a critical component to any successful development effort. If you've done any amount of mobile web/hybrid mobile development, you know that the debugging story there is an often-painful one. With Icenium, we're changing that. The simulator available to you when you use Icenium Graphite or the Icenium Extension for Visual Studio is a powerful tool, enabling you to simulate location changes, emulate device types & orientation, debug your app at runtime, inspect the DOM, profile your app and more. In this post, we explore those features.
    October 29, 2013