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iOS and Android Design Guidelines Cheat Sheet
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Excerpt: When making an app, following your platform’s design guidelines is a tried-and-true way to increase metrics like user retention and customer satisfaction.  It makes it easier for your users to learn how to use the application to the fullest extent, as quickly and intuitively as possible.  In order to make designing for your target platforms easier, we made a cheat sheet for both iOS and Android Human Interface Guidelines (HIGs). It gives a high level summary of the User Interface, how to support multiple screen sizes, icon sizes, and touch gestures so that you don’t have to dig through the books to find them every time you need them.  It also allows you to see the subtle differences between the platforms.... read the full post.
Tags: Android, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, BaaS, IOS, Mobile
Achievement unlocked! Android gaming console Ouya raises $15M
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Excerpt: Summary: The $99 Ouya gaming console built on Android got a boost today with an additional $15 million in funding, plus a new board member that formerly worked at EA. Ouya, the company behind a small $99 Android gaming console, has picked up $15 million in funding. The investment, announced on Thursday, follows the $8. 6 million raised by Ouya on the crowd-sourced Kickstarter platform in August of 2012. Long-time executive at EA, Bing Gordon, will be joining the Ouya board as part of the deal, which was funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), along with participation from the Mayfield Fund, NVIDIA, Shasta Ventures, and Occam Partners.... read the full post.
Tags: Android, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Console, Gaming
TestFlight now lets any developer upload Android apps, plans Android SDK launch in private beta
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Excerpt: Popular app beta testing service TestFlight has announced that developers can now upload Android apps to its platform, and an Android SDK will launch next week for a small number of developers in private beta. Previously, Android app support was only available to a select few. Over the last 45 days, Testflight shared that 5,000 developers were granted access to the new feature and 4,500 apps were uploaded. Those apps have since been “downloaded more than 50,000 times. ” As shown in the image below, Android support has been merged directly into the TestFlight service; there’s now one place to upload and manage Android and iOS apps.... read the full post.
Tags: Android, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Application Management, Application Testing
Android has landed. Beta access open to all.
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Excerpt: We are happy to announce that TestFlight today opened its Android private beta to all users. In just 45 days of private beta, 5,000 developers have already uploaded 4,500 apps which have been downloaded more than 50,000 times. Now, all developers on TestFlight can upload Android apps and streamline their beta testing process. The features include beta app management, distribution, tracking, and centralized feedback. Additional features, such as crash reporting will be coming shortly with the release of the Android SDK. Beginning as early as next week, select developers will start getting access to the Android SDK which will be in closed beta. We look forward to hearing your feedback! One Place to Upload:  Send.... read the full post.
Tags: Android, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Application Management, Application Testing
WeatherSignal wants to create crowdsourced weather reports using Android phone sensors
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Excerpt: If you’re a fan of OpenSignal, the mobile app that creates independent maps of mobile phone network coverage based on information crowdsourced from mobile phone users, then you may be interested to learn of a new standalone weather app the company’s currently trialing. WeatherSignal is available on Google Play from today, alongside its website, and is setting out to create a new way of collating weather data based on the native sensors on Android devices. Indeed, OpenSignal is calling this “the most ambitious weather crowdsourcing project ever,” but it’s worth noting here that it is still very early-stage. Given it relies on users installing the app, at launch it won’t be drawing on too much data.... read the full post.
Tags: Android, Sensors, Weather
Connecting Kindle Fire to Reality with App-Enabled Accessories
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Excerpt: Mobile devices create an amazing ecosystem for developers to express new ideas, create new business, and expand existing worlds. Services like GameCircle and In-App Purchasing make those experiences more sticky and re-playable, drawing users into the experience with more depth. Another category of ecosystem depth that we've been focusing on is app-enabled accessories. Kindle Fire (as well as other Android devices) can connect to and control an incredible range of new devices, and a couple weeks ago we launched a few of these devices on Amazon. com as official Kindle accessories, creating new ways and new opportunities for developers to connect with Amazon customers. From the self-stabilizing, Kindle-controllable AR.... read the full post.
Tags: Android, Kindle, stories
Android and iOS Mobile Device Development with Azure Mobile Services using HTML5 and JavaScript
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Excerpt: In this tutorial I’m going to show you how you can build a cross-platform mobile app with Azure Mobile Services using HTML5 and JavaScript. I'll be using the following sample code: I’m going to adapt the sample todo app that’s part of the Get started with Mobile Services tutorial. You’ll notice that there are already tutorials for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8 but the problem with these, excluding WP8, is that you need to use an environment other than Visual Studio. This might be OK if you’re already familiar with Java, Objective C, Eclipse, and XCode, but is obviously less than ideal if you’re not. Never fear though: if your background is almost any flavour of.... read the full post.
Tags: Android, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Azure, Code Samples, IOS
iPhone remains top US smartphone, while iOS gains a bit of ground on Android
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Excerpt: Summary: The U. S. smartphone story didn’t change too drastically in the first quarter of 2013: Android is still used by more than half of all smartphones and the iPhone is still by far the most popular smartphone in the U. S. Apple’s worldwide iPhone’s sales may be may have slowed during the last quarter from its formerly rapid pace, but in the U. S. the device still picked up market share against competition that remained mostly static, according to ComScore’s MobiLens survey published Friday. ComScore found Apple’s share of the smartphone market, already tops in the U. S. , grew from 36. 3 percent to 39 percent between December and March.... read the full post.
Tags: Android, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, IOS, Mobile, Statistics
What To Learn From 1 Million Payments On Android?
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Excerpt: Fortumo processes hundreds of thousands of payments each day. In order to help developers using Fortumo maximize their revenue, we recently extracted one million payments conducted on Android randomly from our database. Some of the more interesting findings from this data is presented on the infographic to the right – click on it to see a full version. As the infographic does not tell the full story, here are the key takeaways to consider when planning for payments on Android: Android OS is fragmented: 27. 7% of users make payments on Android Gingerbread (2. 3. 6) – a version of the operating system launched in September 2011. An additional 18% use an even older version of Android.... read the full post.
Tags: Android, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Mobile, Payments, Story
The Defense Department will approve Apple and Samsung devices for use in secure communciations
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Excerpt: According to the Wall Street Journal, the US government’s Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) will rule that Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones and Apple devices running iOS 6 meet certain standards to allow for their use in the Pentagon. The Samsung devices will be approved for internal email use, while the iOS devices will approved for a set of “nonclassified communications. ” By accruing approval, the devices from the two companies can be used in the Pentagon. While that market isn’t spectacularly large, the aesthetic effect of having the certification creates a halo for the products; if it is safe enough for the military, it is likely safe enough for your company.... read the full post.
Tags: Android, Federal Government, Mobile

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