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On April 14th we're inviting you to the MoSync Hackathon, which takes place in a former nuclear reactor in Stockholm, Sweden! A full day of hacking, free beer and pizza and hanging out with other mobile and web developers.

If you have programmed a MoSync app in C++ you have probably used the Moblet class. This class abstracts away the low-level MoSync event loop and provides high-level methods and listeners to reduce the amount of code needed to develop mobile apps. As with all abstractions, the Moblet class also takes away some of the control from the developer. A game developer asked on Twitter how to dynamically start and stop the Moblet event loop, and when I looked into this it turned out that the functionality required for doing that was abstracted away and hidden from the programmer.

Every developer during his/her development process solves interesting problems, overcomes barriers and comes up with new ideas. These experiences are worth sharing with others since they may hit the same walls.

 New report on Cross platform developer tools from VisionMobile

When using the Android emulator, I've noticed that my laptop halts to a craw pretty much, with a few FPS even if the same app runs 20 FPS on a physical device. And when @mosync got a tweet from @_mark who had a pretty decent PC to work with and had similar issues, I had a look into why it's so and what you can do about it. Note that many discuss long startup details, while these tips are rather about performance once up running an app in emulation.

Come meet us at the M-days conference in Frankfurt, Germany on 1-2 Feb, 2012. The Swedish vikings are giving a show with Rebtel, Crunchfish, Screen Interaction, VMS, Call Control and the Mobile Business and Sweden Mobile Association, find us in stand A 17 in Messhalle 1. We'll get you a soda, coffee or beer, or come join the WIP jam with me and le Thibault and party with the Mobile Monday Frankfurt chapter. best regards The Mosync Team

MoSync en français - such a xmas present - quel merveilleux cadeau!

Debugging SOAP in MoSync is pretty straightforward, if you've got the right tools. I've been using Wireshark (www.wireshark.org) and soapUI (www.soapui.org). These are both free tools you can use. Wireshark lets you see all the data passing through your network card, so you can see exactly what is being sent and received, and soapUI creates a test environment so you can easily test the server and check that the error isn't coming from there, and see what a good SOAP call looks like.

These days its seems that every other mobile application uses some form of social connectivity, Facebook has become a very popular mobile platform for many! OK enough already, tell me more about the Facebook mobile API. So in this release of MoSync, we have a rich Facebook mobile library that gives you access to almost all of the Facebook Mobile graph API, this can be bound to our HTML5 / JavaScript, so both mobile web application developers and C++ hackers can get full access to the facebook mobile functions.