MonoDroid is a new way to develop Android applications using c# and .NET. It’s based on Mono, the open source development platform based on the .NET framework, that’s itself is sponsored by Novell.
The idea is that you use a Visual Studio 2010 plugin to develop Android applications against the API profile for the […]

Research2Guidance has some research that shows the smartphone application market reached more than 2.2. billion dollars in the first half of 2010. For comparison, this half year figure is more than that for the whole of last year (2009).

We are told… "the overall decline of app prices has reclined" and "Average application […]

James Gosling (the original designer of Java) has an interesting post on comments to his previous blog entry about Google, Oracle and Java.
When asked why Android works well across many phones while Java ME didn’t, he says that…
"Today’s high end phones have an incredible amount of RAM and CPU, which makes interoperability hugely easier for […]

Mobile Entertainment has a great new presentation at SlideShare on 157 App Stats You Should Know About. It brings together mobile statistics from many sources and also provides lots of success cases.

While mentioning success cases, you might also like to take a look at Arron La’s Advanced Task Manager Android Revenue. Arron’s experiences are […]

If you are in any way interested in mobile then you should take a look at Ericsson Labs links on Delicious. They have over 1000 mobile related links that I believe are an archive of what they have posted on Twitter. I have found  Ericsson Labs on Twitter to be one of the best […]

As an independent developer working of different types of projects over time, I am sometimes the first to experience changes in the type of mobile development being undertaken. For example, last year, I saw and reported on the rise of brandware and marketing agencies commissioning applications.
At the moment I am seeing an unexpected increase in […]

There’s a thought provoking article at asymco on what it calls ‘Android’s Pursuit of the Biggest Losers’. The observation is that Android’s licensees (Samsung, LG, Motorola and Sony Ericsson) are those with low operating earnings. The question is how these companies will be able to align with Google’s offering (based on services and advertising) and […]