How Developers Can Solve Their Multi-screen Dilemma (Hands-on Workshop)

Designing websites is becoming increasingly laborious due to an ever growing array of different sized devices available in the market. And with more and more traffic coming from mobile devices, tablets, and netbooks, it has become critical for every web implementation to adapt to a fragmented hardware landscape.

The following workshop covers responsive design, a technique that will make your single source code site adapt to different resolutions by means of CSS and media queries.

Bonus: We're including a UX design workshop by Benedict Davis and Tamara Al Sheikh, User Experience Designer and User Experience Researcher at Google Inc., that will help you better understand and analyze your users' requirements so that your product reflects their needs.

Mobile Usage in the KSA: Shopping, Ads & Other Relevant Stats

Discover Digital Arabia recently released and new and insightful infographic on mobile usage in the KSA.

Bearing in mind the kingdom's sweet spot for internet video, it comes as no surprise then that 34% of respondents watch TV on their phones, 58% use video chat at least once a day, and 91% watch videos through their smartphones.

Other fascinating stats show that smartphones' primary use is... entertainment! 85% reported that they use their smartphones for entertainment, while 'communication' came in second with 72%.

And now that we know how big entertainment is on mobile devices you won't be surprised to know that 28% said that they would rather give up their TVs rather than their phones.

There are plenty more stats in this infographic about mobile advertising & shopping. Read on for more info.

Alfa Telecom's Talk During ArabNet Beirut: 4G & the Alfa Applications Store

Design+Code day kicked off with a talk by Raafat Mounla, Marketing Senior HoD & Rami Assoum, VAS Engineering HoD from Alfa Telecom in which they highlighted Alfa's plans and the Alfa application store and the strategy behind it. 

Raafat discussed 4G deployment in Lebanon, something which would increase current mobile broadband speeds by 5 folds, and the opportunities that come with such a development. He also shared some key stats on the local mobile landscape: mobile internet share, network consumption per day, voice vs. data consumption, and many many more.

BB10 is Right Around the Corner, Here's an Exclusive Hands-on Demo

BlackBerry fans need not to silently withdraw when a mobile OS debate erupts anymore. Soon they might be able to proudly pit a shiny new OS against Android and iOS and reclaim a long lost throne . This is what RIM is promising with its latest overhaul of its mobile line-up. The long awaits BB10 OS id just around the corner.

What we've seen so far from the features:

- Active Frame & Multitasking: 4 scaled down applications on the main screen. Similar to Windows 8's live tiles. Apps are scaled down by swiping up
- The BlackBerry Hub & Peeking: swiping up then to the right will give you a 'peek' into a  notifications bar/center like menu
-A revamped keyboard with a flick gesture to select suggested words when typing

Check out the hands on demonstration below kindly given to us by Mike Mefleh, Director of Product Management at RIM - Middle East...