Count.ly – the real-time in-app analytics platform that shows information by using eye-catching visual elements is now available for developers on the BB10 Platform. The platform is free and can be deployed on the developers’ servers to track several metrics real time.
The Indian mobile app development market is expected to grow past the $227 million mark in 2012, growing at a 22.6% from last year, as analyzed by Gartner.
Growing at a steady pace, the mobile app development market is expected to surpass the PC software market by a whopping ratio of 4:1 by 2012. According to Asheesh Raina, principal research analyst at Gartner:
Application modernization and increasing agility will continue to be a solid driver for app development spending, apart from other emerging dynamics of cloud, mobility and social computing.
And
These emerging trends are directing app development demand towards newer architectures, programming languages, business model and user skills.
The report also predicts that 90 percent of large, mainstream enterprises and government agencies will use some aspect of cloud computing by 2015.
Open source software tools will continue to erode revenue for some App development categories in design, testing and Web development.
This is being driven primarily by the success of Eclipse and NetBeans, as well as by overall revitalization of the market by new small software providers looking for technical and market disruptive approaches for offering products. Limited budgets and economic conditions compelling enough to focus on cost reduction, also fuel the use of open-source software in various development projects.
The Mobile Asia Expo is scheduled to be held in Shanghai this year from 20-22 June at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre in Shanghai, China.
Mobile Asia Expo comprises of several components:
The expo will have several App developer conferences which will feature keynote presentations, panel discussions, and encourage audience interaction on a wide range of topics.
Normally, 1-Day Visitor Pass is ¥ 100, but you can receive the pass for free during a limited-time “Early Bird” offer. All you have to do us to visit https://registration.itnintl.com/mae12/regonline/RegLogin.aspx and use the code EVP7F747
Notable App developer conferences include
Hurry up…Grab while the offer lasts…!!
Happy developing…!!!
If you weren’t able to attend the BlackBerry 10 Jam event at the start of May in Orlando to see some of the great Cascades presentations then here’s your second chance. To give a little insight, Cascades is a powerful new framework that makes it easy to create amazing BlackBerry 10 apps with an astonishing user experience.
A webcast on “Astonishing UIs using the new BlackBerry 10 framework’” will be held on June 19, 2012 at 11:00 am EST/8:00 am PST
The session will include an overview of what Cascades is and cover the basics of developing in Cascades; after which There would be a live coding example and a brief Q&A period. You can register for the event HERE
RIM has officially released OS 2.1 beta for the Blackberry PlayBook. With the official release, the changes that the new PlayBook has in store for us have been unveiled. Here is a list where we mention the few listed by RIM:
This has raised further excitement in the masses to the rest of the OS 2.1 features. We will have to wait until it come full steam with the new OS released commercially!!
The 2.1 Android SDK will be released in beta coinciding with the OS release, and the 2.1 Native SDK will be posted next week, with an update to the Adobe® AIR® SDK to come shortly after. The OS 2.1 beta can be downloaded from various sites. The only necessary condition being: “to whitelist your Playbook’s PIN”, just like PlayBook OS 2.0 beta.
In an urge to motivate the developers, RIM has announced setting up the first ever Innovation Zone in the Asia-Pacific region. The report suggests that the Blackberry Innovation Zone will be set up in Kerala. Blackberry’s latest technologies and developer’s activities like: Blackberry Hackathons and Bar Camps will be showcased in this Innovative zone.
Alec Saunders, Vice President of Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development at RIM announced two more Innovative zones in India. These innovative zones are being set up to focus on making RIM’s mobile technology more accessible and training young minds with the help of Blackberry experts. The Innovative zones are equipped with 4G network, telecom labs, legal and intellectual property services, fully furnished offices and video conference rooms.
With the grey matter being utilized, we expect lots of Innovation at these innovation zones…!!
Simulators are always a welcome thing when it comes to development. And RIM know the importance of it. It has revealed a simulator for the recently announced BlackBerry 9320.
You can now test your apps on the simulator before making them available for public release.
According to an email from RIM
Dear BlackBerry App World Vendor,
We are excited to welcome the new BlackBerry® 9320 to the BlackBerry smartphone line-up and inform you that the simulator is now available for download. Test your app today and get it ready for launch!
To ensure your applications are available in BlackBerry App World for this new device launch, we encourage you to test your applications using the new BlackBerry® 9320 simulator and navigate to the BlackBerry App World vendor portal to post your applications for the BlackBerry 9320 running BlackBerry 7.1 OS. You must indicate application support for this new device as current applications will not be automatically posted for sale for this new smartphone. Please follow these instructions:
1. Select Manage Products
2. Select the eye (view) under the Releases column of the app to be changed
3. Select (edit) next to the Release containing the bundle to be edited
4. Select ‘Add Release Version’ tab
5. Select the pen (edit) under the Device Support column for the bundle you wish to edit
Note: Many applications that currently support the BlackBerry® 9220 series should be easily ported to this new device with minimal change required.
You can start using this simulator immediately and RIM claims that it is super easy to use.
Happy developing…!!!d
RIM marketing has posted up a nice strategy for developers to develop more for the BlackBerry devices. According to RIM
Starting April 10, at 12:01 am, every 100′th app submitted to BlackBerry® App World™ will be eligible for a free prize package to attend BlackBerry 10 Jam. To win the prize package, the app must be approved according to BlackBerry App World Vendor Guidelines. Contest closes on April 26 at midnight EST.
The prize package includes a free pass to BlackBerry 10 Jam on May 1′st to 3′rd, 2012, a travel voucher to purchase a coach airline ticket to Orlando Florida, hotel accommodations while at the conference and $500 USD spending money.
The apps can target either a BlackBerry smartphone or tablet.
You read it correct ladies and gentlemen, every hundredth app will win a ticket to the BlackBerry 10 Jam.
You should get all the apps up and running for submission before time runs out…!!
Happy developing…!!
Call it OMG, but a number of big devs out there have been slapped with a lawsuit on stealing user data through their apps without the user consent.
According to Mobile Business Briefing
In a filing made to the US district court for Texas, companies listed include social app developers Facebook, Foursquare, Gowalla, Path, LinkedIn and Twitter, games companies EA, Rovio and ZeptoLab, plus several other high-profile titles.
The suit, on behalf of 13 consumers, calls for firms to stop harvesting data without user consent, and also seeks monetary compensation.
This puts a serious question on the moral integrity of the above developers whom the consumers trust blindly. They might claim whatever, butit is still to be established what has been done with the data that has been accumulated by such means.
We wait for the court to find out.until then, stay tuned…!!
Research2guidance, the ever number crunching company has produced its latest report concerning development for smartphones.
In 2011 publishers created $US 6.8 billion in application download revenues while app development revenues reached $US 20.5 billion. The development service became a mass market almost 3 times of the size of the application download market today.
The market for mobile application development services, including application creation, management, distribution and extension services, has reached $US 20.5 billion vs. $US 6.8 billion in app downloads in 2011. Thus the development market surpassed the content market by the factor of 3.
Today most app project revenue is generated from classical app creation services (concept creation, design and coding). New service types like app libraries, white label solutions and multi platform app development tools have become more and more popular, but do not yet take a major share of the market.
Prices for application development services vary significantly between regions. UK developers charge $US 626 per day whereas competitors from India charge, on average, $US 138 per working day.
App development partners using price as the main criteria for selection will not be lead to an optimal solution as most of the price differences are offset by the additional time needed by offshore app developers.
App developers can get a copy of the 98 page report from http://www.research2guidance.com/the-market-for-mobile-app-development-services-reached-us-20.5-billion-in-2011/
GetJar, the very first app store of the mobile world, asked developers about their current and future development interests.
The results were quite surprising. The polls figure said:
80 percent of respondents stated that they are developing for iOS for iPhone/iPod Touch today, which declines to 55.6 percent who are planning to develop for this platform in six months time. The same trend is seen in iOS for tablets, which sees developer backing decreasing from 59 percent to 52 percent.
In short, the popularity of app developers towards Apple is taking a hit.
Android for smartphone currently has 51.2 percent support, which will increase to 58 percent six months from now. And Android for tablets currently has 20.5 percent, which will more than double to 47 percent.
That means that the Android folks will not quit their remarkable exponential growth. The same will be reflected in six months time.
Interestingly,
Microsofts Windows Phone 7 platform is set to be more popular with developers than web apps, BlackBerry for smartphones and tablets, and HPs webOS. Some 24 percent of developers intend developing for the MS platform in the future, compared to less than 9 percent today. While that is still less than half of the interest in Android, GetJar said that given Windows small base it looks like there is some optimism for the Nokia/Windows alliance.
Unsurprisingly, the survey noted a continued fall in support for Symbian OS, with less than 7 percent of developers stating they will be supporting the platform in six months time. Fewer than 20 percent of developers think the OS will be around in the next couple of years.
RIMs BlackBerry OS also faces challenges, with less than 15 percent of developers interested in developing for the platform in the next six months. Less than half of the developers believe the platform will survive the next five years.
While presently, around 80% of current developer junta is targeting iOS, around 44.4% of devs are targeting towards Android. The scales will indeed be tipped in Androids favor in six months from now, if the poll is to be believed, with over 70% devs developing for android.
The news is surely bad for already troubled RIM and HP, Symbian fans will be equally annoyed by this poll outcome.
But for Nokia-MSFT alliance, this sure is the silver lining of the clouds. Bad news for Apple though.
Stay tuned for more!!!!
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