There’s been a sensation about smart phones recently in particular Apples iPhone, and much speculation about its advantages and disadvantages, usefulness of developing applications.

Why is it beneficial to have your own mobile application?

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Last month the British Android community gathered together (with a sizable international presence, including the Bangalore Android Group) for Droidcon UK, a huge conference in the Islington Design Centre to discuss all things Android.

Whilst a full breakdown of the two days of talks, barcamp and democamp is still forthcoming, I thought that one thread that ran through the whole conference, as well as the Labs hosted by Google the day before, was worth exploring separately.

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A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to travel to the beautiful Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes for an event called Over The Air, a community-run conference for mobile development featuring an overnight hack-a-thon.

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A nice effect that we've been experimenting with lately on mobile platforms is having a static background layer underneath a layer which can scroll up to completely cover it.

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Over the last 6 or so years as a developer, one of the things that seems to change most is the tools I tend to use everyday. Sometimes they change because there's something better for the job, sometimes it's because my workflow changes and requires changes to the tools I use most.

Hopefully this will help beginner developers setup a web development toolbox.

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