Tag: Mobile

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Q3 2011 SP1 RadJumpList for Windows Phone 7 now adds support for bindable Data Descriptor collections

Some time ago a customer of ours asked us if there is a possibility to use the FilterDescriptors, SortDescriptors and GroupDescriptors collection in a MVVM context by binding them to collections defined by the view model. As all the data is managed there, why not also manage the data operations in the same class? Unfortunately, these three properties are readonly and therefore binding them to a property defined by the main view model wouldn’t work. We decided that allowing similar scenarios will simplify the development with RadJumpList and therefore as of Q3 2011 SP1 the control exposes three new properties which...

by Deyan Ginev
January 05, 2012 2 min read Share
Mobile
Setup Your PhoneGap Development Environment On Mac

Over the holiday weekend I had the opportunity to take a project that I have been working on for the web and see if I could port it directly to a native app on iOS. Now your first thought is probably, “Don’t you have better things...

by Burke Holland
December 28, 2011 6 min read Share
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RadDate- & RadTimePicker for Windows Phone 7 extended to support custom selector intervals

It is a common scenario when we would like to limit the selectable values in a time or date picker control. Normally we would do this by setting an allowed date-time range but a more sophisticated case is when we also want to filter out some selection possibilities and allow only specific ones. Imagine an application that provides the end-user with the possibility to create reminders that can only happen in time intervals of 15 minutes: 3:00 AM, 3:15 AM, 3:30 AM... Here we don’t want to prevent the user from selecting values from the whole time-range, but want to make some...

by Deyan Ginev
December 22, 2011 3 min read Share
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...

by Todd Anglin
December 20, 2011 4 min read Share
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Become an Rx Pusher with Windows Phone 7 Webinar Wrap-up

Following our second webinar in the Telerik Windows Phone Wednesdays series, we now have the recording online and available to view! In this webinar, industry expert and Microsoft MVP Jim Wooley covers the Reactive Extensions (Rx), a framework that allows for more asynchronous calls to take place within your applications, keeping your UI responsive while all the behind-the-scenes operations still take place. Head on over to Telerik TV to check out the recorded version here: Become an Rx Pusher with Windows Phone 7 by Jim Wooley Then head over to Jim's website to check out the sample code as well as the...

by Evan Hutnick
May 30, 2011 1 min read Share