February 3rd, 2012
Google launched the official page for mobile Android phone developers in the social network Google+, said the official representative of the company Rito Meier in the corporate blog.
The external Android developers will be able to exchange information on this webpage, show their products and be the first to know about updates, test them and ask questions directly to Google employees responsible for Android development.
Android developers will be able to participate in hangouts with the Google team and other mobile development specialists who are interested in the development of the platform. The company is going to hold such video meetings daily and broadcasting will be performed from the headquarters of Google in Mountains View (California).
Google is planning to put on its page video and photos from the official events for Android developers.
The social network Google+ was launched in June last year, following by Google+ Pages in November. Among other pages of the social network, users can find the pages of the Google company itself, Gmail, YouTube and Maps, the Google Chrome browser, Android platform, the special page for Google developers, and others.
Tags: Android developers, Gmail, Google, Google Chrome, Google+ Pages, Maps, YouTube
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January 20th, 2012
In spite of gloomy forecasts of fantasts, our planet is not likely to be conquered by computers. However, the mobile platform Android is already making confident steps towards the world domination. In his speech at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 Robert Kyncl, the head of YouTube portal, said that the number of daily activations of Android devices already exceeds the number of daily newborns. Kyncl stated that if the situation will develop like that, the producers will have to start searching new clients on other planets.
Mobile devices had no problems in becoming a leader. According to the statistics, the birth rate has been going down for the last three decades while the volumes of portable device production are constantly growing. The only restraining factor for the manufacturers is the level of demand for Android smartphones.
The Apple Corporation doesn’t share the similar statistics but one can presuppose that the circulations of Android devices released in great numbers from Samsung to Motorola exceeded the official figure of 250 mln iOS activations (including iPod, iPhone and iPads).
At the same time, mobile development specialists try to keep up with these tendencies and create more and more mobile devices for all platforms.
Tags: Android, Apple, iPads, iPhone, iPod, mobile development, Motorola, Samsung
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January 11th, 2012
A few years ago much was written about mobile 2.0. But now, a few years later, it should be admitted that the time of mobile 2.0 hasn’t come. Instead of this we have now the era of mobile phone application development. With the appearance of iPhone, mobile phones became independent devices and became overgrown with their own infrastructure. Now mobile operators don’t influence the trends in the mobile world. Operators have turned into simple providers who should ensure a stable network for transmitting data (even voice is not so important since there’s skype and so on). The ideology of mobile applications has expanded the borders of usual mobile phones and it has become a real universal device.
Mobile applications destroy the barriers created by mobile operators. The presence of mobile Internet has already expanded the possibilities of a mobile phone but mobile apps get the access to the functions of the phone. For example, the twitter web client opened in the browser of a mobile phone can’t know the current position but the twitter client for the phone gets the information about the current location directly from the gps- receiver in the mobile device.
In fact, mobile apps appeared long ago under the windows mobile and symbian platforms but those who had to install programs under these mobile Oss faced many difficulties and couldn’t be sure that the program would work on his phone. The merit of Apple is in the fact that they have created the App Store, a system which allows installing and, which is also very important, buying an application with just one click.
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January 4th, 2012
With the spread of mobile devices with Internet access, two main types of sites have appeared on the Internet – the sites which can be accessed and used via iPads and other mobile devices, and the sites that can’t do this. In 2012 the owners of websites and web services that haven’t been adapted to the new tendencies, will try to make up for the lost time. As a result, the owners of smartphones and tablets will have fewer problems and their lives will be easier. 
Although mobile development companies will continue creating fully functional mobile versions of all relevant sites, the main revolution will happen in the sphere of online video – it will actively migrate from Flash technologies to HTML5 technologies supported by all devices without exception. Last year Adobe admitted that it wouldn’t be able to make Flash work perfectly on mobile devices. Most probably this technology, that has been dominating on websites where users were offered video and music, will leave the stage in a year or two.
Mobile apps developers for BlackBerry may not worry since Flash games will stay longer because in this sphere the new HTML5 will have some difficulties in replacing multimedia plug-in from Adobe.
Tags: Adobe, Flash, HTML5, iPads, Mobile apps developers for BlackBerry
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December 27th, 2011
JetBrains Company has informed about the availability of the new version of its product – WebStorm – the integrated JavaScript application development environment. The powerful and functional tools included into the package will allow professional IT software development companies to work more effectively and to ensure the exclusive quality of the end product.
At present JavaScript is one of the most popular languages and, consequently, deserves its own fully functional integrated development environment. The main task of the given set of tools is increasing the productivity of Java software developers by providing them the support of the most innovative and advanced web standards and technologies.
The list of changes offered in WebStorm 3.0 includes the support of CoffeeScript scenario language which will simplify the process of solving the tasks connected with navigation by code, completing syntax constructions, refactoring, bug searching, etc. The close integration of the environment with the JSLint tool will simplify the study of the written code and the realization of careful checking on complying to the quality standards. The Node.JS framework support will let use all the power of the given set of tools while editing and fixing the server part of the JavaScript code.
Some key peculiarities of WebStorm 3.0:
• Node.JS framework support.
• JavaScript block testing using JsTestDriver.
• Smart algorithms for searching identical fragments in the HTML, CSS and JavaScript code.
• Improved mechanisms of FTP/SFTP synchronization.
• Unified interface with the similar set of functions for all operating systems.
Tags: FTP/SFTP, Java software developers, JsTestDriver, Node.JS, WebStorm 3.0
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December 22nd, 2011
This month Google has decided to start promoting Android into masses using the special Android Training program. The main purpose of this program is teaching users to understand Android and, which is more important, to teach Android application development. Every user is supposed to learn how to do everything – from applications for optimizing the performance of mobile device batteries to the development of effective navigation programs which haven’t been applied by anybody yet.
The training will start with basic knowledge in Android, then they will get the information on how to start developing on Android. The system will provide the most actual and relevant information. According to Tim Bray from Google, now the company is enlisting students who would like to receive this education and the training course will start in the nearest months.
The Ice Cream Sandwich mobile platform is a unified operating system for tablets and smartphones. It makes it much simple for mobile apps developers since they will have to understand only one set of codes. Maybe iPhone application development specialists should pay attention to such an opportunity and become more interested in Android?
Tags: Android, Google, Ice Cream Sandwich, iphone application development
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December 14th, 2011
The young software developer from London Nick D’Aloisio, who has just turned to be 16, has attracted the attention of the entire world having started the commercial development of his innovative technology which lets users get the required information from the Internet much more quickly. 
The main idea of the Summly technology (in the summer it appeared under the name Trimit) is in making digests on the content inquired by a user. The Suumly utility automatically analyses the content of the sites and creates a short list of 1000, 500 or 140 symbols. Such shortlists are also produced automatically. Nick D’Aloisio has already applied for getting a patent for his innovation.
At first, this technology was debuted in the App Store for the iOS (mobile phone application development store) as a utility application Trimit. It allowed getting a short summary of the page opened in the browser. The technology attracted the attention of experts and investors and, as a result, the billionaire Li Ka-shing from Hong-Kong joined the project Trimit. Now all the further development of the technology is financed by his investment company Horizons Ventures.
Under the supervision of Horizons Ventures, the new company Summly Limited was established. The company has already received the first tranche of $250,000 for hiring new web development experts.
The main function of the Summly technology is automated preparation of the concise summary of the content so as the user will be able to share the ready-made digests vie text messages, e-mail, social networks and blogs. The team of software developers will develop a powerful architecture based on Nick D’Aloisio’s basic algorithms that, according to the author, use the principles of genetic programming and artificial artificial intellect.
According to the author, the Internet at present is overloaded with content and the Summly technology will make it much simpler thanks to more convenient information viewing and searching options.
Tags: App Store, Horizons Ventures, Li Ka-shing, Nick D’Aloisio, software developers, Summly
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December 5th, 2011
A few days ago Microsoft announced Windows 8 App Store, which is a certain online software catalogue for the new mass operating system Windows 8 that still hasn’t been launched officially. The online catalogue is expected to start working only in 2012, close to the release date of the operating system itself.
Conceptually, the Windows 8 App Store will be similar to the present existing App Mac App Store. Here users will be able to download paid and free applications. The operating system will have client software for the accelerated access to the catalogue. It should be noted that earlier Microsoft has also copied the ideas of mobile software catalogues. Now this policy is being carried out concerning desktop operating systems.
Independent observers and software development companies say that the main issue is a set of conditions according to which mobile software programming companies will be able to place their apps into the Windows 8 App Store.
Probably, one of the most important tasks of the online catalogue is to protect users from malicious software and viruses, which is a rather complicated task. At present Microsoft doesn’t give any specific details concerning the principles of its App Store functioning. They just note that in the store there will be a user as well as a business section and the company itself will try to make this catalogue interesting for more people by offering the whole range of applications including games and heavy corporate programs.
Tags: Microsoft, mobile application development, Windows 8 App Store
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November 26th, 2011
The programmer Roman Nurik offered Android application development professionals a very interesting tool – Android Design Preview. This application will allow mobile app developers to present visually how their app will look like on the smartphone screen.
The suggested application provides a possibility of previewing the chosen part of the computer desktop on the Android screen. The picture is updated in the real time mode and thus a programmer will be able to trace all inserted updates. By the way, the software developers for iPhone were offered a similar program program – LiveView – long ago.
For functioning, the Android Design Preview application will need a USB-conncetion between a computer and a mobile device, the Java Runtime Environment, deployed on a user’s computer and the Android SDK set of tools. However, there is one big drawback of the program – the absence of WiFi support. But even with this drawback the application will be interesting for specialists.
Android Design Preview is a special open source code program available for most operating systems, including Mac, Windows and Linux.
Tags: android application development, Android Design Preview, Linux, Mac, mobile app developers, Windows
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November 23rd, 2011
ccording to recent research conducted by Appcelerator and IDC, in the 4th quarter mobile apps developers consider Microsoft Windows Phone 7 to be the third popular platform. Only some months ago this place was occupied by the BlackBerry OS.
About 38% of the respondents informed about their desire to write for WP7 and only 21% – for BlackBerry smartphones. Symbian application development, WebOS and MeeGo are even less popular, only 7%, 6% and 5% correspondingly.
As usual, the rating is headed by Apple iOS and Google Android. iPhone Application Development is attractive for 91% of respondents, for iPad – 88%, for Android smartphones – 83%.The main reason for such interest to Windows Phone 7 is the agreement on cooperation between Microsoft and Nokia signed at the beginning of the year.
Tags: Android, Apple iOS, BlackBerry, Symbian application development, Windows Phone 7
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