March 28, 2012 This tutorial is written by Simon Thompson, creator of the new iOS developer resource  www.iosdeveloperguide.com Tweeting from within your app has become significantly easier to implement with the release of iOS5.  In the past you had the choice of writing your own Twitter integration library or using a third-party library, which could be time-consuming and confusing Read more [...]

February 9, 2012 [This post is by Alexander Lucas, an Android Developer Advocate bent on saving the world 5 minutes. —Tim Bray] [Please join the discussion on Google+ .] Intents are awesome. They are my favorite feature of Android development Read more [...]

December 14, 2011 [This post is by Dan Galpin , who lives the Android Games lifestyle every day. — Tim Bray] Making a game on Android is easy. Making a great game for a mobile, multitasking, often multi-core, multi-purpose system like Android is trickier. Even the best developers frequently make mistakes in the way they interact with the Android system and with other applications — mistakes that don’t affect the quality of gameplay, but which affect the quality of the user’s experience in other ways Read more [...]

November 22, 2011 [This post is by Ian Ni-Lewis , a Developer Advocate who devotes most of his time to making Android games more awesome. — Tim Bray] Making a game on Android is easy. Making a great game for a mobile, multitasking, often multi-core, multi-purpose system like Android is trickier. Even the best developers frequently make mistakes in the way they interact with the Android system and with other applications — mistakes that don’t affect the quality of gameplay, but which affect the quality of the user’s experience in other ways Read more [...]