Posts Tagged ‘Android’
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.
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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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?
Tags: Android, Google, Ice Cream Sandwich, iphone application development
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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.
Tags: Android, Apple iOS, BlackBerry, Symbian application development, Windows Phone 7
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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.
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.
Tags: Android, Android application developers, Android developers, Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS, Android source codes, Honeycomb
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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.
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.
Tags: Android, Android Market, Apple App Store, Berg Insight, Mobile apps developers, mobile development
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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.
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.
Tags: Android, Google, iCloud, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, iTunes Match, mobile application development, Music Beta
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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.
Tags: Android, Android operating system, Mirai Sanzo, software development companies
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Monday, June 27th, 2011
The Nielsen company has evaluated the consumption of internet traffic by smartphone users on various mobile platforms.
In the first quarter the average amount of downloaded traffic was about 435 Мb. Just for comparison, a year before this figure was about 230 Мb. Android users have showed the biggest web activity – they download 582 Мb of information monthly. They are followed by iPhone users (492 Мb) and Windows Phone 7 users (314Mb).
The Nielsen’s statistics is based on the analysis of mobile phone bills of about 65,000 users. In 2010 nearly 305 mln smartphones controlled by various mobile phone operating systems were sold worldwide. This year the growth is expected to increase by 55% – up to 472 mln items and by the year 2015 this figure will have reached 1 bln items.
What do users download? In a word, everything. If you look at the mobile application market, you’ll see that iphone and Android phone developers can satisfy all your needs and requirements, no matter how strange or complicated they can be. Mobile Phone Applications Development has entered the new stage when all our wishes can be realized.
Tags: Android, iPhone, moble application development, smartphones
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Thursday, May 19th, 2011
At the I/O conference Google announced its new version of Android operating system. The version got the name ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’.
According to CNET News, Ice Cream Sandwich will be released in the fourth quarter of 2011. Various mobile devices including smartphones and tablets can work on this platform. The new Android version will inherit many features of the Honeycomb version intended only for tablets.
The update for Honeycomb 3.1 was also presented at the conference. It can be installed by the owners of Motorola Xoom tablets and Google TV. Among the innovations one can mention the following ones: the updated user’s interface, scalable widgets and a possibility of connecting USB peripherals including keyboards and joysticks.
The representatives of Google also informed that the number of activated Android devices in the world had exceeded a hundred million. Android based devices are produced by 35 manufacturers. According to the company, about 200,000 android applications are available at the Android Market.
The I/O conference is held by Google every year. During the conference Google carries out seminars and trainings for Android application developers as well as announce present innovations.
Tags: Android, Android Market, Google, I/O conference, Ice Cream Sandwich
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
iPad application developers have created a new application for iPad and presented it in the App Store. It is intended to change the people’s attitude towards getting encyclopedic knowledge. Qwiki, a sort of visual Wikipedia, provides a user with an easy and interactive way of exploring the world via media presentations and using interactive maps.
The application in many cases repeats the website of the project offering users to get acquainted with the biographies of famous people, monumen
ts, and wonders of the world or exotic animals. All the information is connected with hundreds of places on the map of the world and is presented in the form of presentations with excellent photo and video materials.
After viewing, you can share your favorite information with your friends by e-mail, Twitter or Facebook. The presentation material at Qwiki contains links to other resources related to the given topic as well as additional information and images in Wikipedia, Google, Fotopedia and YouTube. All it makes Qwiki much higher than other Wikipedia resources.
Soon we’ll see similar Android application development and iPhone applications.
Tags: Android, Facebook, Fotopedia, Google, iPhone, Qwiki, Wikipedia, YouTube
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