iOS or Android?
When I started out to explore mobile development, I was immediately drawn to the iOS mobile platform because I owned several generations of iPhone models. iOS seemed perfect to me because I used a variety of iPhone apps that inspired me to investigate mobile development. However it wasn’t until I delved further into mobile development that I quickly realized as a developer, that there was more...
Read MoreMASL Meetup: November 30, 3pm
Effective Software Development We will be having a MASL Meetup on Friday afternoon, November 30, at 3pm in B1-118 Mackinac Hall on the Allendale Campus. Anybody in the GVSU community interested in mobile technology and/or software development in general are welcome to attend. Speaker: Sam Serpoosh – Sam is a passionate software developer and graduate student in GVSU’s School of...
Read MoreMASL Meetup on Wednesday 10/17/2012
There will be a MASL Meetup this Wednesday afternoon at 2pm – 2:50, in B2-116 MAK. GVSU Faculty and students interested in mobile technology are welcome to attend this meetup. We will be presenting a couple of papers on past and ongoing MASL projects. J. Engelsma, F. Jumah, A. Montoya, J. Roth, V. Vasudevan, and G. Zavitz. Shop Social: The Adventures of a Barcode Scanning App in the...
Read MoreA Summer Inside Microsoft
GVSU MASL graduate assistant Juan Mejia spent his summer working in Redmond for Microsoft. In particular, Juan worked on Microsoft’s Window Phone. On Friday, September 21 Juan will be giving a “MASL Meetup” talk on his experiences working at Microsoft. Juan will be sharing his internship experiences by talking about what its like to work at Microsoft and how a very large...
Read MoreMobile Moves Michigan Event
Fellow Michiganders, are you interested in broadening your mobile tech horizons this summer? If so, you’ll definitely not want to miss the upcoming Mobile Moves Michigan Conference @ The Motor City Casino in Detroit Michigan on July 30-31, 2012. The event, hosted by the Mobile Technology Association of Michigan, includes the Mobile/Wireless Technology Symposium (7/31), a mobile...
Read MoreMASL Meetup: Mobile App Dev
On Thursday this week, mobile technologists from Compuware Corporation will be presenting their perspectives on mobile app development. They will talk about deciding factors for native vs web, hybrid app frameworks, and best practices for mobile technology in the enterprise. All GVSU students & staff interested in mobile technology are encouraged to attend this presentation: When: 1pm...
Read MoreJava Client for GAE Channels
AppEngine Channels Google AppEngine Channels create a persistent connection between your client and the server running the Channel API Code. Information is passed between the two in real time without the use of polling, even between multiple clients, using the server as a mediator. For instance what if you wanted to create a Java client to use these channels to receive push notifications from a...
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