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Building an exceptional bada Community

As bada is yet in its infancy and the bada developer base still small but steadily growing, there is a call to unify the intellectual potential of every smart person out there problem-solving the riddles of bada API’s. Thanks to t0mm13b, who is the mastermind behind all this, a bada platform has been proposed in […]

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bada Developer Challenge Voting

Today, the results of the first judgment phase of the bada Developer Challenge were published. From 300 applications who passed into the “Simulator Phase”  90 winners are announced who advance to the final “Device Phase”. Right now an online vote is running, where everyone can pick his favorite 6 nominees from the final 90 apps.

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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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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 […]