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Facebook Launched App Center

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

The largest social network Facebook has announced an unusual service which can easily become one of the leading app stores. Using this service, users can download applications to their devices, including mobile ones, and software developers for iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian will be able to promote their own projects more successfully.app-center

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.

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Business Mobile Application Development for Android

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

While creating the platform Android, Google aimed at creating a new universal mobile application development language which could be used on various mobile devices – unlike the iPhone operating system which is supported only by Apple devices. That’s why at present Android users exceed in number the users of other platforms.mobile-business-application

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?

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Manual For Beginners in iOS Development

Friday, February 24th, 2012

Apple has published the manual for beginner software developers for iPhone platform. Most popular gadgets iPhone, iPad and iPod work on this platform as the Apple Insider informs.

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.

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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.

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Understanding Android

Thursday, 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?

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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.

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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.

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Mobile Application Development Forecast

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

The specialists from the analytical company Berg Insight have come to a conclusion that by the year 2015 the number of downloaded applications for mobile devices will have reached 98 bln. According to the analysts, during the period from 2010 to 2015 the increase of downloads will increase by 56% annually. At that, the profit in this market segment can increase by 5.5 times and will become $8.8 bln.phone-speaking-on-the-phone_11-37197

At present, the leader of the market is Apple – most mobile applications have been developed for this platform. Berg Insight considers that till 2015 Apple will keep his leading position. Android mobile platform from Google is on the second place and in the nearest 4 years it will keep this position. By the year 2015 the third place will be taken by Windows Phone.

Nowadays mobile apps developers create not many applications for this platform – about 30,000. At the Android Market there are now about 280,000 apps and in the Apple App Store – more than 500,000 apps. Last year the turnover of the Apple App Store exceeded $1.7 bln and in the Android Market the profit was $102 mln. It counted for 83% and 1.3% from the total market correspondingly.

Berg Insight noted that the growth of application downloads will not be proportional to the growth of profit. Since the biggest part of mobile development is free, the monetization of such programs will be limited to content selling immediately in the application environment or in advertising.

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Google Musical Service Now in iPhone and iPad

Saturday, September 17th, 2011

Google allowed the access to its musical service Music Beta for the owners of mobile devices based on iOS.

In comparison with the Android devices that have their own application Music Beta, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users can interact with this service via the interface of the Safari browser. The users will be able to play music and view the lists of tracks, albums and singers. The playback will continue even if you close Safari.music beta

Google presented its own musical service in May at the mobile application development conference. Till September, Music Beta had been available only for the computers and mobile devices based on the Android operating system. As it is clear from the name, Music Beta is now being used in the beta version only: the access to the service is carried out via invitations and only from the US territory.

Music Beta users can upload on Google servers up to 20,000 tracks from their own collections. One can listen to these tracks in the streaming mode from other computers and mobile devices. In comparison with Apple that has obtained the permission from the musical companies to launch such services as iCloud and iTunes Match, before starting Music beta, Google didn’t signed any agreements with the representatives of the music industry.

Although, as I have mentioned above, this service is available for the US only, mobile phone application developers will try their best and make this service available for all.

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Mirai Sanzo: Android Based Domestic Robot

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

Japan has always been famous for its unusual technical innovations. Software development companies work hard to create something new and exciting. And now it has presented another amazing gadget, Mirai Sanzo, based on the Android operating system. Mirai Sanzo is a type of a domestic robot that can connect to the computer, heating and cooling systems, the alarm system, mobile devices, electronic locks, water and light regulators by means of wireless communication.

The new gadget is equipped with a sensor screen and a Wi-Fi module. It is capable of understanding voice commands and can also execute the instructions sent from the mobile phone.

Unfortunately, Mirai Sanzo can understand only the Japanese language, but in future mobile developers are planning to add some other languages. The price of the gadget hasn’t been informed but if you want someone to prepare a bath for you, send an e-mail, and in case of danger call the police, Mirai Sanzo is what you need.

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