Native Mobile Platforms VS PhoneGap – A Comparison

Contributed by Yokesh Thirumoorthi on Nov 15 2013

Before you take decide on why you whether you should choose to build a Hybrid PhoneGap-based App or a native mobile App on platforms like Android, iOS, Windows Phone, etc , let us put forth the pros and cons of both and make it easier for you to take weigh...

Sending Request and Receiving Response from Network now made simpler with Volley Integration

Contributed by Kunal Kant Tiwary on Oct 30 2013

We, at Neev, have been working on Android application development for more than four years. The task of Networking which involves sending requests and handling responses from web service is both time consuming and effort consuming. Why so? 1. We need to create a method that can accept requests and...

An Innovative Acceptance Testing Framework using Fitnesse, Xebium and Monkeytalk

Contributed by Raman on Sep 3 2013

Fitnesse, Xebium and Monkeytalk ... Let us say three to tango Life needs to be simple, organized and predictable, even for a test engineer and a Business Analyst (BA). And both need to talk to each other in nearly the same language. This is where it gets tough....

How to use your mobile camera to detect your favourite store coordinates?

Contributed by Yokesh Thirumoorthi on Aug 14 2013

For the last few weeks, members of Ideas Inhouse have been working enthusiastically and busily to build a mobile application on  Augmented Reality. Augmented Reality (AR), a technology trend  that spearheads new ideas across various business domains, is a concept that enriches user experience for interfacing the real time objects...

Android OS Development as a Career Option

Contributed by admin on Feb 5 2013

Apps have revolutionized the use of smartphones, and today there are millions of apps for just about anything. In fact, app development is also emerging as a lucrative career option. Android app development is soaring day by day. The Android OS is literally flexing its muscles in the mobile domain and it won’t be...

CouchDB : How it can help Mobile App Development

Contributed by Khurshidali Shaikh on Jun 17 2011

What is CouchDB?

CouchDB is an open source document-oriented database now maintained as an Apache project. Some of the important features provided by CouchDB are

  • RESTful JSON Api to allow it to be assible from any environment using HTTP

  • Third partly libraries are available in many languages that make it easy...

Android PUSH Notifications using Google’s C2DM Framework

Contributed by Khurshidali Shaikh on Jun 9 2011

Unlike other mobile platforms like the Blackberry or iPhone, Android does not support PUSH notifications out of the box. There is speculation that it may be added in future releases of Android, but as of Gingerbread(2.3), it isn't part of the SDK.

But in true Google fashion, they have come out...

Mighty Auto Parts : Android tablet based Order Taking application

Contributed by admin on Jun 5 2011

  MightyAutoParts is the finest quality AutoParts company from the world’s leading manufacturers abroad serving as the lynch pin between manufacturers and professional technicians from coast to coast.   They partner with more than 25000 repair facilities from independents to large multi bay specialists shops and tire centers. We worked...

Navteq : Android SDK and Reference application

Contributed by admin on Mar 10 2011

Navteq is one of the leading MAP Providers and other LBSP (location based service products). Navteq is owned by Nokia.
Navteq had developed an iPhone SDK which allowed the iPhone developers to integrate Navteq maps in iPhone applications.
Our task involved redeveloping the SDK and the...