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  • Mobile

    Smartphone shipments outpaced PCs in ALL of 2011

    At the end of 2010, it was big news when all of the analyst firms reported that smartphone shipments had out-paced PC shipments in the final quarter of the year for the first time in history. Never before had the traditional PC been out-shipped by a different...
    December 20, 2011
  • Mobile

    Getting Started Video Series for our New Controls in WP7

    Just two short weeks ago, our Q3 2011 release for Windows Phone 7 was made available. Today, we have some fresh resources ready for you to watch to start getting the hang of working with the new controls including: RadSlideView, RadContextMenu, RadAutoCompleteBox and RadToggleSwitch. The videos below are hosted on TelerikTV and are around 8-10 minutes each. So grab a coffee, put on your favorite headphones and check them out. Getting Started with RadSlideView (also includes RadToggleSwitch) Getting Started with RadContextMenu Getting Started with RadAutoCompleteBox The Source Code to all of the videos is also available to download now. In case you missed the Q3 2011...
    December 14, 2011
  • Mobile

    Get More Data for Your Windows Phone App Performance with This Free Tool

    I just found out a very useful, free monitoring tool for Windows Phone apps called Distimo Monitor. It gives you valuable insights as to what affects downloads and revenues of your app. It provides of course Downloads and Revenue reports by country, day etc. like you would expect.  The two more interesting features are the Rankings and the Events reports. You can see the rankings of your app/apps for each day and country and how it evolved over time. You can even add comments to the rankings graph, just like in Google Analytics, so that you can track how a certain...
    December 14, 2011
  • Mobile

    Building Stock charts with RadChart for Windows Phone

    Download the demo Visualizing financial data with RadChart for Windows Phone, part of RadControls for Windows Phone, has never been easier. As of the Q3 2011 release, the control adds two of the most popular financial series – Candlestick and Stick (or OHLC as we call it) to its broad range of different visualizations. In this post I will explain how easy it is to setup a chart that visualizes some financial data. The more interesting topics covered are: Reading data from a file and creating view models Setting-up and styling a RadCartesianChart instance Adding chart interactivity  The view model The data points created by a CandleStickSeries...
    December 08, 2011
  • Mobile

    How to Promote your Windows Phone App on a Shoestring

    Couple of weeks ago, while writing a blog post about some free advertising we were giving away together with AdDuplex,  I realized, as obvious as it sounds, that monetizing from a Windows Phone app actually requires two very different set of skills: development and marketing skills. It’s one thing to build a nice app and another to successfully promote it.  And it is rare, correct me if I’m wrong, that one person is good at both. And chances are that you do not have an advertising budget. So what do you do? The truth is that there are a bunch...
    December 02, 2011