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• Image Handling and iPhone 4 Posted Friday, September 3, 2010 Jim Garretson 0 Comments

  Development for Apple’s iOS - the operating system running on iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad - is a funny combination of wonderful and maddening. The platform’s native API, called Cocoa Touch, provides an app developer with an amazing combination of power and flexibility - and it’s been improving with each version. But the power and flexibility also come with a tradeoff: frameworks perform neat tricks, but at the cost of processing time and memory consumption. This is especially true when accessing a device’s camera, and especially true when accessing the camera on an iPhone 4, which returns huuuuge images.

   
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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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  Android • Apps • iPad • Iphone • Mobile • Platforms • QuickView for Android • Web Development

• Review of an Empty Canvas Posted Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Jim Garretson 0 Comments

  
  (Since its launch a few weeks back, the iPad has been a hot topic at Constant Contact both internally and in questions and comments from customers. As part of its technology investigation charter, Labs has been coming to grips with what the iPad is all about. This is the first of two contrasting opinion pieces that Labs members have put together. As always, the opinions expressed herein are those of the individual author, not necessarily those of the company.)
  

   
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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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  Android • Apps • Iphone • Mobile • Software Development Process
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