Tag: Android

How smart is your app? A smartphone app hierarchy

Maslow's hierarchy of needs

There is clearly no shortage of iPhone apps. But what kind of mobile applications are most worthwhile, either to develop or use?

Cross-platform development options for smartphone apps

Apple iPhone4

Developers have been hindered by the need to develop an app from scratch for each smartphone platform. To address this, several cross-platform development tools have come out in the last year or two.

Four reasons why multitasking rocks on smartphones

Multitasking between email and calendar

Do smartphones need multitasking? The iPhone doesn’t have it yet; Google Android, RIM BlackBerry, and Palm webOS do.