tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-120910742026-03-30T02:59:57.124-04:00iOS Swift OSS and Android N Material Design Java mobile development.Spectatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424180388816217148noreply@blogger.comBlogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12091074.post-24293680801785933552015-09-22T05:36:00.001-04:002015-09-22T05:36:19.433-04:00

libPhoneNumber is a great lib for phone number formatting, country detection and store phone numbers to E164 standard presentation.

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The way which Android will put the text to the it's place in the layout depends on its layout gravity parameter. New values for this for API 17 are "start" and "end" orientations, depending on the language default for device user it changed it place from left to right and vice versa, it is different for langs written from the left to the right LTR and others(

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Just add to doInBackground() checks for isCancelled() and break running loop.

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There is an issue I've got today, UILabel has not not autoshrinking text to fit label size. Investigation gives the answer - do not select "Word Wrap" in Line Breaks parameter for this label control, select "Truncate Tail" (see illustration) and it magically starts to work. This applied to latest Xcode 6 and iOS7-iOS8 targets. For earlier versions like iOS 6

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Nokia has announced a final release of Microsoft Office Mobile for the Nokia OS Symbian. The package includes applications such as Word Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile and Excel Mobile (other components such as PowerPoint Broadcast, OneNote, Lync 2010 were released earlier in 2012 February). Microsoft Office Mobile is available for download on Nokia 603, Nokia 701, Nokia E7,

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Despite the fact that Symbian is not favorite child in Nokia family it got excellent present on MWC 2012. The name of the new product based on Symbian is Nokia 808 PureView. This is a best cameraphone ever - it got a camera whose sensor consists of 41 megapixels. We must say that Nokia 808 PureView does not use all 41 megapixels but only 38 as the maximum. The resulted stored

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Nokia has announced today at MWC 2012 Lumia 610 a new low cost Windows Phone 7.5 Mango device. New smartphone got only 256 Mb of on-board RAM and built-in 8 Gb flash drive and lack of  MicroSD cards slot. Capacitive display got standard WVGA resolution 480x800 pixels and dimentions of 3.7 inches. Network connectivity consists of Wi-Fi adapter (IEEE 802.11 b/g/n) and

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Microsoft, the best partner of Nokia, feeds Nokia's devices with its mobile apps OneNote, Lync, PowerPoint Broadcast, and Document Connection. This apps targets to Nokia Belle Symbian new version OS. Four Microsoft apps are initially released and will be delivered via the Software Update application for the Nokia E7, Nokia 610, Nokia C7, Nokia 603, Nokia 700,  Nokia

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This site  posted information that Belle firmware update for Nokia 500 is available for download in form of binary image and can be flashed with help of Phoenix flashing software. Belle still isn't available for Nokia 500 via Nokia Suite but will be available in few days. Nokia smartphone users who can't wait may right now download and flash Belle to their phones.

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Do you have a Nokia phone with the Symbian^3 OS? Then perhaps it is nice to hear that Nokia Belle update have been released on February 8 to phones with Symbian^3. Nokia Belle is a new major update of Symbian OS since Symbian Anna release. Belle installs on wide variety of Nokia devices and among the phones supported are Nokia N8, Nokia C7, Nokia E7, Nokia X7, Nokia C6-01, E6 and Nokia Oro. We

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Last few days we've heard a lot new numbers from Nokia: 803, Lumia 719, Lumia 730, Lumia 910 and now they added more - 808 and Lumia 610. Two days ago our attention were focused on leak of probably the last Nokia smartphone running Symbian Nokia 803. This maybe true or not, but sources was speaking about it as a phone with the best camera ever built-in the mobile phone. Its camera

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Today you can download cool messaging app Kik from Nokia Store (Ovi) for free. Kik Messenger is available not only for Nokia Symbian N8, 701, 700, Nokia 603, 500 but for Windows Phone handsets too. This means you cat get it for your new shiny Nokia Lumia 800. Kik is the same cool messenger such as WhatsApp, which already has been available for Symbian Anna and WinPhone 7. With Kik's super easy to

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The Nokia Store application is currently inviting users to download a number of premium applications or games for free for next 30 days. This is another such event from Nokia Store added to same happened in the past. For different phone model and Symbian OS versions Nokia (OVI) Store presents a bunch of cool games and useful apps: Angry Birds, Moodagent, Nimbuzz, eBuddy, Worms, Blocks, Diamonds,

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Nokia sent user emails about Ovi Store servers down this Wednesday because of Nokia Ovi Store client received an update. Still no official update list available, but you can fell that the app is more smooth and quicker in navigating and actions.

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Nokia is running a promo campaign "It's not technology it' s what you do with it", developed by Wieden + Kennedy, addressed to Nokia N8 and Nokia C7 phones. As part of this campaing Nokia has published in Ovi Store the "Loop" application. This software allows Nokia users to mix different musical tracks. With this app users are able to record, edit and loop up to four tracks. Also users may upload

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Opera Software finally ported it's superb web browser to native Symbian sis format. The main question now is - where to download this app to your Nokia phone? You can do it the same way as with regular J2ME version of Opera Mini app, just follow this link m.opera.com and scroll down web page until you see link to Opera Mini for Symbian sisx installer. This version supports all modern Symbian S60

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Some new Nokia phones like Nokia N8, C7 and other running Symbian^3 OS got embedded Facebook support, but some old ones running Symbian^1 (Symbian S60v5) doesn't have it. For such type of Nokia devices the next app would be extremely helpful.This is FriendChat app by Bolser Agency. It's an Instant Messaging app which use Facebook Chat to connect you to all of your Facebook friends. The

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Latest Nokia smartphones running Symbian^3 (Nokia X7, N8, E7, C7, C6-01 and more in future) got nice WebKit-based web browser. But, until the big update, announced by Nokia CEO, the best user experience you may get with the new version 10.1 of Opera Mobile browser. However, if you click web link in some application on your phone (e.g. in an preinstalled email client) it's opening in the

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Nokia releases first issue of its new Nokia Ovi Guide magazine. In this release you will read about:Ovi features like Mail, Share, Contacts, Music, FilesApp reviewsGame reviewsNokia recommendationsSocial networking and location-based apps which you can find in Ovi StoreSome apps which were covered: Social networking - Gravity a mobile twitter client, Fring - a VoIP app, BuddyCloud, ShoZu - mobile

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Today Ovi Store is the great place to find free apps, games and multimedia content for your Nokia devices. But description of apps in store is really short, and you can't get enough screenshots. Don't worry, Nokia now has a blog with reviews of the best content in Ovi store. MyDailyApp blog publish every day a new review of app or game or other store content. They mostly pick free and the best

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Today Ovi Store has officially opened for users worldwide. Millions of people with Nokia devices now can benefit from tons of free and premium content. This service available for more than 50 Nokia S60 and Series 40 devices right now. But how to open and use Ovi Store on your phone? This is really easy - just select the Ovi Store icon in the Download folder on your device and open the Ovi Store

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6 April Nokia has released a new TV commercial with its first touch-screen device Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. This video shows what a cool things you can do with your 5800 device like Internet messaging and browsing with web video support, GPS navigation, picture and video uploading to Flickr and YouTube.I wonder how we can extend these rich capabilities of this perfect device with freeware

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Finally Skype will embed its VoIP application to the Nokia mobile phones running Symbian S60. The first one will be the new N97 device. Moreover Skype software will be available to download onto other Nokia Symbian S60 models. But standalone version is less integrated into address books, messaging and other phone's built-in features. Integrated version of Skype client in Nokia N97 will be able

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Today at MWC 2009 Nokia has announced its new great service for smartphone consumers. This is a new Ovi Store - an application and content download service that will be launched in early May of this year. I've reviewed existing Nokia MOSH freeware download service which will be part of new Nokia Ovi Store. This means that Ovi Store will have a lot of free applications, games, themes, ringtones

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Nokia consumers report the Nokia 5800 Express Music phones with touch screen got a software bug in installation software. This bug prevents you from installing any Symbian signed or developer singed sis packages with applications. You always got "Expired certificate" error message. For self-signed applications installation process finished successfully. This happens probably because of new

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