Telerik blogs
  • Mobile

    Building Hybrid Apps For Windows Phone 8

    In today's software world, we have no shortage of choices when it comes to developing applications. Even in the limited scope of Windows Phone development, there are choices galore. Do you develop a native Windows Phone app? Do you take a hybrid approach? How about Xamarin? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN!? To help you wade through this complexity, in this article, we'll take an in-depth look at one of these approaches: hybrid. Specifically, we'll look at why you would want to build hybrid, and how to do it. Let's start by looking at where hybrid can be a good fit.
    April 01, 2014
  • Mobile

    Structuring Hybrid Mobile Applications

    Hybrid applications are unique because they run in a "browser" but without a server component. They also aren't expected to look and behave like a web application. The unique constraints on hybrid applications require a good code structure in order to be able to productively build maintainable mobile applications.
    March 27, 2014
  • Mobile

    How to Turn Visual Studio into the Ultimate Mobile App Development Environment

    If you're familiar with Telerik then you also know our roots run deep in the Microsoft and .NET ecosystem. Consequently, it will probably be no surprise that one of the first integrations we targeted with the Telerik Platform was Microsoft's development tools. This blog post demonstrates how to use the Telerik Platform to build cross-platform mobile apps using Visual Studio.
    March 19, 2014
  • Productivity Debugging

    Mobile Debugging Tips

    Mobile debugging is often a 3-fold strategy: awareness of exceptions, using desktop tooling to debug and remote debugging on devices. In this post Jim Cowart shares some tips and tools that are good to know to make it part of your debugging strategy successful.
    March 14, 2014
  • Mobile

    AppBuilder March Release: A Full CLI, Windows Phone 8 Support, Sublime Text Integration, and More

    Fresh off the release of the Telerik Platform, we have an epic release of Telerik AppBuilder to discuss - packed full of several highly-requested features (including Windows Phone 8 support!). There's a lot to talk about, so let's dive right in.
    March 13, 2014