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Mobile Application Development Conference on May 18, 2012 in Minsk

Friday, April 27th, 2012

On May 18 Minsk will host the International Conference MobileOptimized dedicated to the mobile application development. It will be the second conference attended by the leading foreign and Belarusian mobile development companies.

First of all, the reports and presentations will be addressed to mobile phone applications development specialists creating apps and services for various platforms.
Some related areas will also be discussed: cross-platform solutions, mobile interfaces, augmented reality, mobile games, project management, mobile application marketing and many more.

The conference will last 1 day and will consist of three stages. The main headliners of the conference will be the world famous lecturers and professionals. The main flow of reports will be held in the conference hall in the National Library. The specialists from the USA, Europe, Israel and Taiwan as well as the leaders of the Russian mobile industry will deliver their presentations.

Two additional master classes and training sessions will be devoted to special questions and more specific topics.
The main organizer of the conference is the company EPAM Systems. Among other sponsors are such well-known brands as HTC, ScienceSoft, Ciklum, Viaden Media, Softeq Development, Altoros Development, Synesis, World of Tanks Team.
Within the framework of the conference one can attend lectures and master-classes and get acquainted with the leading companies in the sphere and their hot vacancies.

For participating in the conference, electronic registration is required.

Modern technologies and wireless devices

Friday, March 16th, 2012

Every day we know something new about new technologies and new devices. For example, recently Sony has announced the release of its new smartphone Xperia sola. The software development specialists claim that the interaction with the device is carried out without any physical contact. The display of the Xperia sola smartphone reacts to the user’s actions even when the person doesn’t touch it and only floats over the device. The new technology is called Floating Touch.

At present the only application that can feel contactless gestures is a browser. In order to highlight the link on the page, a user just has to hover the finger over it. But for visiting this link, the touch is needed. The Software developers for iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian claim that very soon the Floating Touch technology will be supported by other programs as well.

The technological world is developing from year to year and this development is not likely to stop. Some things that were impossible only five years ago are usual and widely used devices nowadays.spy1

The modern development of electronics allows many components and entire devices to be performed in tiny sizes and to build them in some usual everyday objects, thus opening practically unlimited options for spying gadgets. The simplest and the most natural object where one can build in a spy camera is glasses. So we get spy glasses, which can be easily focused on the object.

One more example is wireless earpieces or bluetooth headset which can be placed into the ear. They are invisible for other people and can let you cheat at the exam if you are a student or make excellent presentations if you a lecturer.

Want to feel yourself a spy? Buy yourself something from a wide range of spy devices (bluetooth earpieces, wireless earpieces, etc.) and turn to James Bond!

Russian Application For iPad Became Hit Among Military Men

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

There are many iPad software applications that are considered extraordinary and exciting. For example, the iOS application GoodReader created by the Russian iPhone application development specialist Yury Selyukov is very popular with American military and officials. Even the tender documentation of the US Air Force requires the support of this application in iPads bought for their purposes. The US Air Force decided to purchase 2,861 iPads for its entire air staff. Among the specific requirements to the devices it is said that they should support the application GoodReader.1324064531_tunzlqt81xcsj3e

This application is intended for viewing documents in various formats on the iOS devices. Having bought iPad and installed ‘readers’, the officership wants to get rid of paper navigation maps and technical instructions by replacing them with e-versions. The Air Force documentation says GoodReader corresponds all safety requirements.

The application is sold via the App Store. With the help of this app, you can view the documents in PDF, TXT, .doc, .ppt., .xls formats, as well as reproduce audio and video files. GoodReader can be synchronized with various web services, for example, with e-mail, Google Docs, Dropbox, FTP-servers.

In May 2011 Alaska Airlines informed about switching their pilots to the tablets with GoodReader. It was the first big carrier that started using iPad instead of paper documentation. In August 2011 iPad with GoodReader was tested by the local company Delta Airlines and the company informed about its plans on equipping its air staff with tablets with this software.

Androids Are Multiplying More Quickly Than People

Friday, 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.many-androids

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.

Microsoft announced Windows 8 App Store

Monday, 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.online-store

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.

Android Design Preview: Preview on Smartphones While Developing Mobile Apps

Saturday, 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.

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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.

Windows Phone Becomes More Popular Than BlackBerry For Mobile Developers

Wednesday, 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.

Android Ice Cream Sandwich Source Code Released

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

Android developers are able now to develop applications on the Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS. The release of this operating system is scheduled for the next year.

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Google published the Android Ice Cream Sandwich source code for free using. The published code belongs to Android 4.0.1, which will be used in Galaxy Nexus as it was announced last month.

Alongside with the code for the Ice Cream Sandwich, Google also published the sources for Honeycomb that hadn’t been published before. Honeycomb is said to be still a non-completed system and software development companies are asked to contribute to its completion.

Now having the Android source codes, Android developers will be able to start writing applications for the latest version of the given platform. Different companies and developers’ teams will be able to release their won packages of the operating system for working with different devices.

World of Tanks Became Best European Online Game

Saturday, November 5th, 2011

world-of-tanks-logoThe Game Stream Company informed that the project ‘World of Tanks’ had won in the nomination Best European Online Game in the framework of the European Games Award (EGA). Among the nominees to this title from EGA there were such famous projects as EVE Online: Incursion, Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword, Runes of Magic – Lands of Despair. The winner was determined by means of the closed ballot among the visitors of the site.

European Games Award is the first award for European software development companies who develop video and computer games. The title has been awarded since 2010 and unites the professionals and players from Europe for choosing the best games in the gaming industry.

Moreover, World of Tanks is also a nominee to the most prestigious world’s gaming award Golden Joystick Awards that has been awarded since 1982 to the best games and mobile application development companies. Last year more than 1.5 million people took part in voting and thus the Golden Joystick Awards has been named the World’s Most Popular Videogames Awards by Guiness Book of Records.

GoMo Service From Google For Better Displaying Mobile Versions of Sites

Saturday, October 29th, 2011

Google presented the new service GoMo aimed at helping software companies (mainly online stores) to improve displaying the content of their sites on mobile devices.gomo-news-microsoft-tag

The ‘Gomometer’ function allows analyzing ‘friendliness’ of the site in relation to mobile users. Among the considered parameters are the following – the speed of downloading, the ability to read the text without enlarging the page, availability of the search on the site and other parameters. According to the results of testing, a special report is generated. It indicates the drawbacks of the site and the recommendations on its improvement.

Moreover, the service offers the contacts of offshore software development companies who deal with the development of mobile versions of sites. Out of the suggested variants you can easily choose the companies that suit your needs and budget. Also you can get acquainted with the examples of the sites that comply with the customer’s requirements.

According to mobile apps developers, 61% of users never return to the resources that are displayed incorrectly on their mobile devices. Thus, they speak about the necessity for any business to orient their online sites to mobile devices.