A new project called RadicalFlow (RF), is a web based tool that allows anyone to develop an iPhone or iPad app, and yes, even without knowing how to code. The brains behind RadicalFlow are clear as to what they offer through their tool.
It can be very time-consuming to develop a mobile app for the iPhone, only to have to code it again from scratch for Android. With Mobile Foundation from IBM, that problem could become a thing of the past.
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Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 has been released by Microsoft this week. This is the final version of the Community Technology Preview (CTP) Microsoft released last month, which will allow developers to build for new 256MB devices that were announced last month at MWC.
Windows Mobile is slowly but surely carving out a niche in the smartphone segment, but both know they can’t take things as they come. They have to be pioneers, dredging through rough terrain to get any edge to become competition.
The idea is that you can launch interactive experiences that are live and social, and they've just launched Screach 2.0 with a whole new user interface.
For entrepreneurs and other business professionals, reading up on the latest information and advice is usually a good thing. The new TradePub.com app for the iPad opens up that opportunity and it does so for free.
Google has come out with a custom-made tool for Android app developers to help them keep track of their products as well as fine tune marketing and developing strategies. Google’s new ‘Application Stats’ for Android Market publishers allows developers to keep track of how their products have been faring in the real world, or rather, the world of Android users. The company had a crude version of stats, basically a set of dashboards in the Developer Console, which showed info of the app in key areas such as country, platform versions, device models and so on.
The smartphone internet segment is booming and is likely to grow out of proportions in the coming years considering the amount of traffic generated by the apps as well as downloads. The mobile companies are looking at ways to increase revenue from the lucrative mobile broadband segment while maintaining the data usage offers and freebies they provide for the customers.
While it is certainly true that a lot of people access their Facebook accounts using native apps on their various smartphones, it seems that even more use the mobile web. And so, Facebook wants developers to take a better advantage of this opportunity and create more apps for the mobile web.
The new Android 3D Homescreen Template from Rightware does exactly that, making it easier to quickly and effectively produce powerful 3D user interfaces on all sorts of Android devices.
As an app developer looking to make some money, where do you think you should turn? The iPhone App Store? Android Market? Apparently, it could be more profitable to develop an app for RIM's range of smartphones instead.
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While Apple agrees that promoting a good app on its App Store through third parties is good for business, the company has made it clear that it will not allow unethical or fraudulent promotional practices such as ‘bot-farming’, which uses bots to repeatedly download apps to increase its rating.
And that market, according to NPD, is going to continue growing. We're at 72.7 million units in 2011, but that number is expected to grow to 383.3 million in 2017. That's just five years away.
The most used and abused game on my Android phone is still Angry Birds. But studies over a period of one year have shown that I may belong to an endangered gaming community which is on a continual down slope in the Android world.
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