Problems:

1. Try to collapse blending layers together: Transparent elements can be very expensive: Instead of a button with a transparent background on top of white, it’s faster to pre-composite in photoshop and create an opaque image.

(Below comes from …

Mark Zuckerberg: Our Biggest Mistake Was Betting Too Much On HTML5

Supporting clues:

1.  One of the things that’s interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our …

Before trying those apps, readers should be noted that the hybrid app does not necessarily mean “PhoneGap” app. The detail illustration is in this thread.

1. Facebook Apps

The old facebook apps for iOS and Android, and current facebook …

1. Device Agnostic Development

Developer still prioritize the desktop as the first when developing web application.

For existing platform or future platform, despite their capabilities, they all have these three constraints: Network, Compute (CPU), Render (GPU, pixels).

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1. Phonegap and Cordova

The relation between these two: http://phonegap.com/2012/03/19/phonegap-cordova-and-what%E2%80%99s-in-a-name/ ; Basically, the phonegap is a distribution of Cordova.

The project (JIRA) page of Cordova: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project

Phone gap gives you more service:

Comprehensive documentation: https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap/wiki

Phong gap build: https://build.phonegap.com/

Phone …

In this post Peter Eastman has shared his experience of creating a customized type for his own application and shared from web/email client to his application. In his post, he explicitly mentioned that how the MIME type defined by him …

As mentioned in previous post, the intent object may or may not contain MIME type in it. As Android will compare MIME type when matching intent and intent-filter, it will raise a problem when writing the intent-filter. This post answer …

From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3400072/pathpattern-to-match-file-extension-does-not-work-if-a-period-exists-elsewhere-i

The android team chose an unfortunate way to implement pathPattern. You can take a look at how the pattern matching is implemented in the android.os.PatternMatch class:

https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/java/android/os/PatternMatcher.java

We’re used to .* working like it does in a regular …

1. Some broadcast receiver cannot be declared in intent-filter

See a related post here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1588061/android-how-to-receive-broadcast-intents-action-screen-on-off/1588267#1588267

Android does not seem to support manifest-registered receivers for cases where they really do not want to start up a new process. For example, you …

From developer-tech.com

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