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Bada

Petition: VoIP for bada!

As has proven the success of the first bada petition, demanding the possibility for free ad-sponsored applications instead of paid versions, bada developers now take bada’s future into their own hands. The request is simple: To finally allow VoIP applications on bada and lift the arbitrary restriction that only benefits the carriers and leaves behind […]

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Bada Tutorials

Developing bada: one global object – the Singleton

  When I designed my database class for my current application project, I had to ask myself how to actually be able to access this class from anywhere in my application, from every form, class and whatnot. Of course I could just create an instance of my database class on the spot, just where I […]

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Windows Phone 7

Asus Smartphone presented with Windows Phone 7

A video from Gnomedex just surfaced giving an amazing presentation of  Microsoft’s own mobile OS Windows Phone 7 on one of Asus’ new smartphone models shipping exclusively with WP7 around Christmas. WP7 itself will be released on 11th of October already.

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Bada Tutorials

Developing bada: XML Parsing with Namespaces

Thanks to wit’s very helpful introduction into working with XML: Working with Working with XML in Bada (part 1) – Simple XPath Parsing I could quickly enter the quite more sophisticated data processing, but the tutorial reached its bounds when I encountered an XML file with namespaces, which alot xml feeds contain. Thanks to an […]

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Bada

Petition: Free Access for bada Developers’ own Apps

With joint forces I and other developers from badadev.com, the major bada developer community, brought a petition into being concerning the very limited possibilities for developers to create, specifically debug and test their applications in field conditions on bada handsets, the so called “target-debug”.

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Bada Tutorials

Developing bada: DateTime – workday or holiday?

In my current bada application project I encountered the task to find out what day of the week a specific date (DateTime object with Day, Month and Year parameters). Thanks to the hardworking developer huydung and other community members over at badadev.com I could write a fine working function you can simply add to your […]