The Tablet Show

Carl and Richard talk to Paul Thorsteinson about the business of selling mobile apps. Paul talks about how he jumped on board the iPhone App Store opportunity at the beginning. Paul and his partners created Own This World for the iPhone, a 'Risk-like' game to take over the world. The game opened the door to working with Robots and Pencils, building mobile applications for enterprise and large organizations. The conversation continues into the integration of traditional media with mobile devices and how to deal with getting visibility in the marketplace.

Todd Anglin from Telerik talks about Kendo UI Mobile, their new platform (currently free and in beta) for developing HTML5 apps specific to Android and iOS devices. Todd also talks about the regular web edition of Kendo UI for building web applications that take advantage of different browser features.

Carl and Richard bring Atley Hunter back to discuss the hoopla that happened last Friday when Windows Phone 8 leaked to the press.

Carl and Richard talk to Andrew Glover about PhoneGap. PhoneGap lets you build HTML 5 applications and deploy them to all the major mobile phone platforms: iOS, Android, WP7, Blackberry, Symbian, WebOS and Bada. Andrew digs into the actual process of building cross-platform apps, the impact of Adobe's acquisition of PhoneGap and what applications make sense in a cross-platform world, and what apps are better done native.

Carl and Richard talk to Russell Ivanovic about Android development. Russell comes from the Java world but moved into iOS development, building some very popular apps in Australia. Then he moved into Android development and has had even more success. Russell talks about the experience of building Android applications, how it differs from iOS, the pluses and minuses and more. What about fragmentation? How do you test adequately? All these questions are answered and more!

Carl and Richard talk to John Sonmez about building iOS and Android applications. On the iOS side, John compares Xcode to MonoDevelop. You can build iOS apps with MonoTouch in Visual Studio, but you're always going to need a Mac in your life. On the Android side, John discusses the similarity of Eclipse and IntelliJ development environments and how he prefers to use MonoDevelop and Mono for Android for its cross-platform advantage.

Carl and Richard talk to Kevin McNeish about building applications for iPhone and iPad using Objective-C. Kevin talks about the advantages of using the native tools and language for building iOS apps - mostly in the sense of resources like sample code. In addition, Apple's latest round of development tools has significantly improved, according to Kevin, in some ways better than Visual Studio!

Carl and Richard talk to Ronan Cremin about .mobi and Device Atlas. dotMobi was set up my major influential internet companies including Google and Microsoft to make mobile internet become real. Device Atlas is a subscription service for getting up-to-date lists of exactly what features work on what browser versions on each device. Ultimately the conversation comes around to the idea of whether building native apps for mobile devices versus building customized HTML for each of the devices is easier.

Carl and Richard talk to Richard Griffin about building applications with HTML 5 and WinJS on Windows 8. Who's going to like it more, the folks coming from Javascript or the folks coming from .NET? Richard talks about how his combination of XAML and HTML skills helped him grasp what WinJS is all about. You're going to love Promises and XHR! The conversation also explores why you'd want to migrate your app into the WinJS space and whether or not HTML 5 apps are going to replace native apps.

Carl and Richard talk to Shawn Wildermuth about Windows 8 and Windows Phone 7. Shawn announces the release of his book Essential Windows Phone 7.5, and then the conversation dives into Windows 8. Shawn talks about how the discipline of Silverlight development has made him a better HTML 5 developer. But what toolset will he use for Windows 8? Have a listen!