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Brandon Watson, Senior Director of Windows Phone 7 Development at Microsoft, tweeted an offer to WebOS developers on August 19:
To Any Published WebOS Devs: We’ll give you what you need to be successful on #WindowsPhone, incl.free phones, dev tools, and training, etc.
The response has been good so far, with Watson receiving over 500 replies in the first day alone.
According to comScore, a leading analyst firm that measures the digital world, Microsoft’s share of total smartphone subscribers fell significantly from Q1 to Q2 in 2011. Microsoft had 7.5% market share in March 2011, versus only 5.8% in June 2011, for a 22.6% loss. Android market share jumped from 34.7% to 40.1%, and iOS rose slightly from 25.5% to 26.6%.
comScore June 2011 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share
Microsoft Continues To Bleed Mobile Market Share, Despite WP7
Microsoft will soon be launching an approved Windows Phone unlocking service as part of ChevronWP7 Labs. This allows developers to immediately launch apps on the Windows Phone 7 platform, without waiting for official Microsoft approval. This also allows users to run these “homebrew” apps on their Windows phones.
The ChevronWP7 service will require developers to pay a small fee via PayPal to offset costs, but it should be much less than the $99 annual fee to release apps in the WP7 App Hub.
ChevronWP7 comes with Microsoft’s full blessing and support, which means homebrew apps shouldn’t break in future Windows Phone updates. Microsoft should be commended for opening up Windows Phone 7. This leaves Apple as the only smartphone developer that does not officially support homebrew apps.
NS Basic/App Studio is a complete, powerful development environment that enables you to create your app on a Windows desktop, then download it to your iPhone, iPad, iTouch, or Android device. Apps can be distributed royalty-free.
The programming language is a fully-featured, structured BASIC, which is a subset of Microsoft Visual BASIC with mobile device extensions. NS Basic/App Studio also supports development in JavaScript. It includes math and trigonometric functions, SQLite Support, HTML5 features, geolocation and Google Maps.
Mono for Android brings .NET development capabilities to the Android mobile platform. MonoDroid uses a slimmed-down library profile that is better suited for mobile devices. The entire set of Android Dalvik APIs has been wrapped in C#. The OpenTK library is also supported, so you can use the same OpenGL logic across the Windows, Linux, iOS and Android platforms. MonoDroid supports the full JIT, so you can use Reflection.Emit and dynamic code compilation.
MonoDroid is now available in public beta. It will eventually be released as a commercial product.
Dot-Net-News.com now supports mobile devices and smartphones such as iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Palm Pre/Pixi, and BlackBerry Storm.
jQuery Mobile is a user interface framework built on top of jQuery and designed to simplify the process of building applications that target mobile devices. This is the first alpha release of the framework, so there will surely be bugs in your platform of choice.
jQuery Mobile 1.0a1 Demos and Documentation
Announcing jQuery Mobile Alpha 1
The SMSToolkit is an open-source SDK that allows any Windows Mobile 5 phone to be used in conjunction with a PC to act as an SMS Server, allowing developers to easily write SMS applications, using just their phone and a PC. Additionally, it provides a collection of samples that among other things, allow non-programmers to use Excel to send bulk SMSs and to build simple information lookup applications. This project is actively developed by Microsoft India Research team.
Microsoft has released a beta version of tools for building applications and games for Windows Phone 7. The beta toolset includes the following:
Download Windows Phone Developer Tools
Windows Phone 7 Developer Homepage
What’s New in Phone Tools Beta
Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for Web, desktop, and mobile applications when online or offline. Silverlight is a free plug-in, powered by the .NET framework and compatible with multiple browsers, devices and operating systems, bringing a new level of interactivity wherever the Web works. Silverlight is also one of the programming models for Windows Phone 7 devices.
Key new features in Silverlight 4 include:
Silverlight Homepage
What’s New in Silverlight 4
Developing for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight
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