Tag archives for Mobile

HTML5

Learn How to Create the Classic Snake Game With the Canvas API and the HTML5/JavaScript Duo

If you've never played the famous Snake game, raise your hand! I say that, but I suppose that nowadays, the new generation may never have heard of this game, which may seem a bit old-fashioned given the possibilities offered by today's computers and the Web. And yet, there was a time when the Snake game was a game that all…
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Android

Guide of classical gestures made on smartphone and tablets

With smartphone and tablets, users interact with applications with gestures. There are a lot of different kinds of gestures and each has a well defined name. In 2010, Luke Wroblewski has made a great work to classify all of these gestures in his "Touch Gesture Reference Guide" article that can be found here : . Even better, he gives some…
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Android

Learn to make faces recognition programmatically in Android

For Android applications that offer to users possibilities to manage photos or images, it can be very useful to add a faces recognition feature. To achieve that, you have basically two options : first is to find a faces detection algorithm and to implement it. It can be a very good exercise but when you make Android applications, you wanna…
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News

Q3 2014 Smartphones sales : Samsung and Nokia continue to fall, Huawei and Xiaomi continue to grow !

Gartner has just revealed Smartphones sales for Third Quarter of 2014. Globally, sales of Smartphones in Emerging Markets exhibited highest growth ever, while Western Europe continued to decline. Besides, Samsung lost market share while top three Chines manufacturers combined smartphone market share grew by 4 percentage points ! 1. Worldwide Smartphone sales to End Users by Vendor in Q3 2014…
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