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  • Mobile

    Our Windows Phone Customers Rock!

    14 new customers’ apps from different categories just joined our Windows Phone Showcase Gallery. Check them out here. And while looking at them I couldn’t help but notice that 3 of them are in the very top of their respective categories. Such as Gooroovster at #12 in the music + video / top category. The app is the first Google Music player for Windows Phone and is using Telerik’s PhoneApplicationFrame, JumpList, DatabountListbox and TileHelper. Connecting with businesses, movies, people and what not is a piece of cake with Poynt at #20 in travel + navigation / free category. And then there is Math Rocks at...
    March 12, 2012
  • Mobile

    Building Your First Kendo UI Mobile PhoneGap Application

    With the launch of Kendo UI Mobile this month (have you downloaded it yet?), we introduced a completely new development philosophy into the arena of HTML5 development on mobile devices. What If What if you could develop one native application and target multiple devices? Too good to be true? ...
    February 23, 2012
  • Mobile

    Wrap Layout + UI Virtualization = RadDataBoundListBox for WP

    The standard Silverlight for Windows Phone ListBox, as many of you already now, can be easily tuned to use a different Items Panel from the standardized Stack Panel. This is a really very powerful feature that many of pointed out was missing in RadDataBoundListBox. Since the WrapPanel is another commonly used layout panel in the ListBox context, many of you asked for similar feature in RadDataBoundListBox provided that it further extends to supporting the powerful UI virtualization approach that we already use in our control. Some time ago Georgi Atanasov from my team gave a very thorough explanation of how to mimic a Wrap Layout...
    February 20, 2012
  • Mobile

    Using SVG on Android 2.x (and Kendo UI DataViz)

    Like it or not, Android version fragmentation is creating the new class of "IE6" browser for mobile development. With the broad majority (94%) of Android users still using a 2.x version of the platform (according to Google's own stats), Google has created a huge population of...
    February 18, 2012
  • Mobile

    What Makes End-Users and the Marketplace Love Your Windows Phone App?

    An unusual thing happened at the Telerik Windows Phone team product planning meeting for Q1 2012 a few months ago. Instead of starting with our usual mantra “What does our customer need in order to build a great app?” we talked about love. What does love have to do with a mobile app you would ask? Well, a lot. Keep reading. The two questions we asked were: 1)    What is it that will make the end-users love our customer’s Windows Phone app? 2)    What is it that will make our customer’s app be loved by the Windows Phone marketplace?  And here’s a preview...
    February 07, 2012