Thanks to all the folks who joined me for my Mobile Services talk in Oslo. Here are the slides and a link to my demo.

Here is the video from the presentation so you can follow along.

Yavor Georgiev: Leave the backend to us: building mobile apps with Azure Mobile Services from NDCOslo on Vimeo.

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Thanks to the folks who attended my talk at Devintersection last week in Las Vegas. Here are my slides:

You can find the code sample here. 

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What was going to be a simple link I wanted to share (via Aatish) got me thinking about the legacy of “problematic” monuments across the Balkans. Regardless of what they symbolize, most of these have fallen into disrepair due to the fall of the regimes that erected them in the first place.

The original post here shared a series of “spomenik” monuments built throughout former Yugoslavia. Here is a great essay by John Bailey that puts these in context.

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In today’s post we continue our Android blog series for Mobile Services. Here are the other posts in the series.

• Working with typed and untyped data
• Customizing serialization using the gson library
• Exploring the richness of the query model
• Implementing authentication correctly
• Intercepting HTTP traffic for fun and profit
• Unit testing your client code
• Advanced push scenarios

Today we will talk about the query model in the Android client. In our C# client we were lucky to be able to lean on LINQ, but after some research we found that there is no out-of-the-box equivalent in the Android platform. I’m glad to stand corrected here: please let me know in the comments if we missed something.

Given that, we decided to implement our own fluent query API that supports the same richness that you get with LINQ, so it deserves a thorough writeup. We’ll assume we’re working with our same reference type we used in our last tutorial, but we’ve added a field or two to make things more interesting to query against:

~~~ java public class Droid {

@com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName("id")
private Integer mId;
@com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName("name")    
private String mName;
@com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName("weight")    
private Float mWeight;
@com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName("numberOfLegs")	
private Integer mNumberOfLegs;
@com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName("numberOfWheels")	
private Integer mNumberOfWheels;
@com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName("manufactureDate")	
private Date mManufactureDate;
@com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName("canTalk")	
private Boolean mCanTalk;

public Integer getId() { return mId; }
public final void setId(Integer id) { mId = id; }

public String getName() { return mName; }
public final void setName(String name) { mName = name; }

public Float getWeight() { return mWeight; }
public final void setWeight(Float weight) { mWeight = weight; }

public Integer getNumberOfLegs () { return mNumberOfLegs; }
public final void setNumberOfLegs(Integer numberOfLegs) { 
    mNumberOfLegs = numberOfLegs; 
    }

public Integer getNumberOfWheels() { return mNumberOfWheels; }
public final void setNumberOfWheels(Integer numberOfWheels) { 
    mNumberOfWheels = numberOfWheels; 
    }

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Announcing the new HTML client support in Mobile Services, which enables you to build PhoneGap/Apache Cordova applications. More information on ScottGu’s blog. Get started here.

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My feature up on TechCrunch and TechMeme… nice!

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