Another advantage of the new platform for software developers is a possibility to install updates and changes to applications on the fly without reloading the server. It’s good news for Java applications since during the installation of the official execution environment Java SE (Versions 7 or 8 ) serious work on adjustment is required and the resource consumption exceeds all reasonable limits. That’s why, modern Java applications for cloud and mobile systems use more often the alternative execution environments such as Apache Tomcat. Like Tomcat, the new version of the IBM Websphere Application Server offers little resource consumption, a quick start-up and convenient addition of new apps without relaunching.

The new platform is especially attractive for the enterprises that have to completely renew all their basic applications three times a year. With the emergence of Liberty this process becomes much easier and faster. Moreover, all new functions of Liberty have a reverse compatibility, which means that the existing Websphere applications can get all the advantages of the new platform without the necessity to rewrite the code.

Despite all the evident advantages, the new platform from IBM itself is not likely to become the unquestioning leader in the nearest future without the support in the form of the updated ecosystem for applications. In particular, at present there are some strong competitors at the market such as Red Hat JBoss and Apache Tomcat: they are more reasonable in price but without such an impressive history. On the other hand, IBM can win the spheres where clients are not focused on one product – behind Liberty there’s a huge set of solutions based on the Websphere technology.

In the near future the App Center will be available for desktop and mobile users. According to Aaron Brady, the official representative of Facebook, this service is a new place for searching social applications. Moreover, this place will also provide mobile apps developers with new possibilities for promoting their apps.

In fact, the App Center has been created exactly for promoting mobile apps used in Facebook. Thus, if any mobile development company wants to place their own project in the Center, it will have to integrate this app into Facebook. Naturally, only registered users can download applications.

On the other hand, not all applications supported by Facebook will appear in the App Center. The applications that have received low marks from users as well as those that don’t correspond with the certain quality criteria (such as a simple interface, understandable content, absence of bugs and annoying adverts) will not get in the App Center. Moreover, mobile developers will have to create a special page for their applications following certain rules.

Before placing an application into the App Center, it will pass through careful check up. The desktop and mobile versions of the App Center (for iOS and Android) will be equal because users will be able to find the necessary applications in both versions and launch them on their devices (but it will concern only the HTML 5-based applications).

In case the application required the client installation, the service will send a user to its page in the App Store or Google Play.

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.

But we still can find fanatics in mobile phone application development with unusual ideas and motives who can change everything. Recently Mozilla (that has developed the Firefox browser) has presented a logotype of its new mobile platform under the name Boot to Gecko (B2G). It has been designed for smartphones and tablets and represents a Firefox browser working under Linux. B2G presupposes that all mobile applications will work inside the browser. B2G looks like Google Chrome OS but Chrome OS has been developed for desktop computers and not for mobile devices. Moreover, the internal confrontation between Chrome OS and Android in Google doesn’t let Chrome OS develop normally.

And Mozilla is a company that is really interested in developing web technologies and web development. So B2G developers have declared war for Web and promised to create a free platform for mobile web applications developed on HTML5. How will it differ from a usual browser in iOS and Android? In fact, in B2G the browser will interact directly with the functions of the phone (for example, with bluetooth, file system) and mobile operator services (for example, SMS). It means mobile web applications will be able to work not worse than native ones.

The biggest part of this manual is the so-called “contracts”, i.e. mutual obligations between applications and the platform Windows 8 itself. In particular, these “contracts” give applications a possibility to exchange files with each other and with the operating system performing the information search in other applications, outputting the sound to the external devices as well as introducing your own changes into the settings of other applications and systems.

It should be said that the new manual is not direct guidelines on developing applications. It only demonstrates that Microsoft considers the developers of iPad software applications as the most important part of its strategy on creating the new ecosystem of applications that is planned for launching for tablets with the operating system Windows 8. At present Microsoft repeats its approach to the Windows Phone platform where the producer very often entices mobile developers from the iPhone platform. The efforts of Microsoft not once have led to a privileged delivery of additional tools for porting apps on the new platform, and sometimes mobile apps developers directly pay for the development of the new versions for Windows Phone with guarantees in case of unstable sales of these versions.

Android is a very promising platform and mobile development for this platform is growing from day to day. This platform is constantly improving and the sphere of its application is expanding. Consequently, a great number of Android phone developers are working all over the world producing various apps for different spheres of our life. Business is not an exception.

Now businessmen realize that making your business successful and competitive is essential and a ‘must-be’ at present. Thus, nowadays mobile application developers can design and create various business apps for mobile devices. For example, you can install and use task management software or workflow management system on your Android.

Powerful resources and technical support from Google play not the last role. Many IT experts forecast that in the end Android will beat all other platforms.

Maybe, it’s time to order your own business application and win the competition?

If you get to know in details the results of the contest, visit the page at http://www.brainbench.com/xml/bb/landing/offer/promotion.xml?contentId=2944.

The contest was held by the world’s leader in the sphere of online certification the American company Brainbench. Its certificates are accepted in the biggest companies from more than 100 countries of the world and are considered the demonstration of the specialists’ qualifications.

The participation in the given contest and the obtained results will contribute to increasing the rating of Belarus as the country possessing the developed competitive IT industry. Belarus has many offshore software development companies and is known in the world also for its mobile software programming for iPhone apps.

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.

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!

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.

The manual, available on the official site of the company, provides the main tools for mobile developers, the operating principles of iOS and the online App Store. “This manual represents a starting position for iPhone application development”, – said the official representative of the company.

At first, the future developer is offered to download the set of tools Xcode and register in the iOS Developer Program. Then he can take a short training online course on creating the simplest application and get acquainted with the basics of the apps development.

In the next section, some types of applications, design, interface and the principles of the App Store operations are discussed. The online manual ends with the tips on finding further more detailed technical information and more advanced materials on iOS application development.
At present, iOS is the most popular mobile development platform. Last year Apple informed that there were more than 550,000 apps in the App Store, 170,000 were developed specially for iPad. The company gives to developers 70% of the profit from the sold apps. According to the latest data, since the launch of the App Store, the company has paid more than 4 mln dollars to third-party developers.

The main competitor of the iOS is the Android platform developed by Google. At the same time, the Android Market has two times more applications than the App Store.