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• QuickView Web: Coming soon for iPhone, Android, Palm and more Posted Monday, July 26, 2010 Jim Garretson 1 Comment

  
  Labs is excited to present QuickView Web, a third entry in the QuickView family of mobile Constant Contact applications. QuickView Web is a mobile web app - an application delivered through the web browser, but with the look, feel and functionality of a native app. It’s intended to be compatible with any WebKit-powered mobile browser, including iOS, Android, Palm, and this fall’s new Blackberry and Symbian devices.

  Read on for more info, including a chance to help us beta test!

   
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• Announcing the QuickView for Android open source project Posted Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Jim Garretson 0 Comments

  
  Regular readers are familiar with the saga of QuickView for Android, our long-awaited redesign of Constant Contact’s iPhone app for the Android mobile platform. It’s been a long time coming, and we know many developers and customers have been waiting for it. Today, we’re very happy to announce that it’s ready to go - but with a special, Android-themed twist. In support of Constant Contact’s new app development contest, Labs is pleased to announce the creation of the QuickView for Android open source project!

   
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• Mobile Apps - Native or Web? Posted Friday, March 5, 2010 Reneldy Senat 4 Comments

  

  There’s been a lot of debate on the web and in the blogs over mobile apps and which are better: native device-driven apps, or its counterpart, mobile web apps. I’ve always thought this to be a totally fair question, because they both offer real benefits to the user and sometimes serious drawbacks for developers. The truth is, although I believe they both have their own measurable benefits, I don’t believe there could ever truly be a real winner in this debate. The question is too subjective for a user, and for a developer, it ends up being completely requirements driven.

  In this post I step away from a user’s perspective and focus on some of the decisions developers will have to make when determining which is right for their project. For developers, this decision should be driven by requirements, but for those occasions when you’re just not sure which is right, feel free to refer to the following analysis.

   
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• The Best Android Developer Resources Posted Thursday, January 21, 2010 Brendan White 1 Comment

  

  If you aren't aware already Constant Contact Labs is developing a version of the QuickView iPhone App for Android.  Check out the blog post: QuickView for Android Preview for more details.  I have been helping work on this Android application for some time now and over the course of development I have used various resources to get started, work through common problems, and become more familiar with the framework.  Rather than just leave these resources "favorited" in my browser I thought I would share them.  So here is a list of resources I believe no Android developer should be without.

   
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