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  • Mobile

    Implementing Trial Functionality for Windows Phone applications

    As part of the Telerik “Q1.2012 Beta” package for Windows Phone we are releasing a new set of "Application Building Blocks" components. You can find more info on the idea of Application Building Blocks here.  Overview Part of the application building blocks are the RadTrialApplicationReminder and RadTrialFeatureReminder components. With these 2 components developers can implement and adjust the trial functionality of their applications. You can implement application-wide trial notifications, or feature-specific trial notifications, with a lot of configurable options. Both components support time-based and usage-based trial restrictions. Here is the list of the implemented features: Optional free period (time based or usage based), when no trial...
    February 01, 2012
  • Mobile

    Introducing Rate Application Reminder for Windows Phone

    As part of the Telerik “Q1.2012 Beta” WindowsPhone package we released a set of building blocks components. You can find more info on the idea of building blocks for Windows Phone here. Overview As we are discussing in our “Promote your Windows Phone App on a Shoestring” whitepaper, the number of ratings plays a big role in the algorithm that the marketplace uses to rank the different apps. Our experience shows that if the users are reminded to do something, chances are that their response rate will be higher than if they are not reminded. With RadRateApplicationReminder you can configure your application to display...
    February 01, 2012
  • Mobile

    Intro to the Kendo UI Mobile Beta

    It's an exciting milestone day for Kendo UI today! We just released the public beta for Kendo UI Mobile, the third piece of the Kendo UI story (joining already released Kendo UI Web and Kendo UI DataViz). We know a lot of you are very excited about...
    January 24, 2012
  • Mobile

    New Video Series for Telerik RadCharts for Windows Phone 7

    Hello everyone, Today, we begin a new and exciting video series on Telerik’s RadCharts for Windows Phone 7. What is RadCharts you may ask? RadChart is intuitive and easy-to-use charts designed for the mobile environment. RadChart offers 20 chart series out-of-the-box and is designed for super-fast loading and real-time updates.  The control’s intuitive object model and public API allow complex charts to be easily setup either in XAML or through code-behind. Now that we know what RadChart is, let’s take a look at the roadmap for the series. The Roadmap for the series: I’ve included the Roadmap for the series below as...
    January 20, 2012
  • Mobile

    New Videos Added to our Windows Phone 7 Library

    Hello everyone, You have asked and we have listened! A new set of WP7 videos have been released. This time we included: RadJumpList, RadCalendar and RadDataBoundListBox. The videos below are hosted on TelerikTV and are around 8-10 minutes each. So grab a coffee and put on your favorite tunes and check them out. Getting Started with RadJumpList Getting Started with RadCalendar Getting Started with RadDataBoundListBox The Source Code to all of the videos is also available to download now. In case you missed the Q3 2011 WP7 Webinar describing our new controls then you can watch it here and don’t forget to check out this follow-up blog post...
    January 12, 2012