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  • Mobile

    Comparison of RadControls for Windows Phone and the Windows Phone Toolkit.

    Overview RadControls for Windows Phone 7 completes the missing controls and functionalities from the UI Toolbox for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone Toolkit. We not only offer controls not found in those resources, but we build upon existing controls they have created to offer our users a better experience. Our controls also aim to cut the development time by providing controls based on user feedback. Lastly, our controls are optimized for performance. A quick example of this is our RadDataBoundListBox compared to the ListBox offered in the Toolkit. Our control can handle hundreds of thousands of records without performance degradation....
    May 23, 2012 7 min read
  • Mobile

    Introducing the ActionSheet for Kendo UI Mobile

    Highlights New! ActionSheet introduced in the Q1 2012 SP of Kendo UI Mobile (v2012.1.515) ActionSheet displays a set of choices related to a task the user initiates Super-easy to add the ActionSheet to your apps built on Kendo UI Mobile Easy to add ActionSheet to existing Kendo UI Mobile applications (i.e. TeamThing) Introduction In case you missed it,...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Mobile

    How to make money from your Windows Phone app free webinar. Sign-up now! Check out the prizes.

    It’s official. Building top-notch mobile app that generates actual revenue takes more than a smart idea,  developer’s skills, excellent tools and nice implementation. The app needs promotion and you as a developer need to take advantage of every potential opportunity for making money. Join us for our free webinar where we’ll talk about how to make money from your Windows Phone app. We’ll cover topics such as: the composite parts of a mobile app; discoverability of the app, best methods for monetization and best methods for re-engagement. We’re co-hosting the webinar with Tapjoy, a company offering a mobile advertising and publishing...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Mobile

    How to design a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Part 2

    Welcome to the second blog where we talk about the main similarities and differences between the design guidelines of the Windows 8 and the Windows Phone platforms and what this means to designers and developers. In the  first blog post we covered: Design process Layout and navigation In this part we will take a deeper look at: Commands and actions Touch Orientation and views Notifications and live tiles Telerik upcoming Windows 8 suite You can download the full series as: high resolution pdf  (~7 MB), or low resolution pdf (~2 MB).
    May 27, 2021 8 min read
  • Mobile

    What makes a marketer of a toolset for building Windows Phone apps happy?

    It is news like this one: two of the four apps that won the big prize of the 30 to Launch competition are built with RadControls for Windows Phone - the product our team is building with so much care. And the apps are: Play the hunt – built by Eshy Media Social Mints – built by Techark. Social Mints was also the winner of Core77's FastTrack to the Mobile App International Design Award and was featured at Mobile World Congress 2012. “We are extremely excited about this win as there were more than 130 apps submitted for the contest,” said Pratik Kothari from Techark. And So...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read