http://mobilephonedevelopment.com Insights into developing apps for mobile Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:24:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There’s a recent article at Localytics that tries to prove that Android isn’t as fragmented as many think. Unfortunately, the article only considers OS builds and screen sizes and this isn’t the whole story. My personal experience is that different screen sizes are actually less of an issue when solely developing ... http://mobilephonedevelopment.com/archives/1421 Canalys released their full year 2011 smartphone global sales stats last Friday. An amazing 488 million smartphone were shipped in 2011. While sales by individual companies are interesting, the table most useful for mobile developers is the split by platform…   Android now has more than double the market share of iOS. ... http://mobilephonedevelopment.com/archives/1420 As companies develop more and more apps for their employees, customers and even suppliers it soon becomes problematic to control who has access to apps, updating them and gaining reporting information. In such cases it becomes prudent to have a custom ‘enterprise’ app store that… Restricts which users can download what ... http://mobilephonedevelopment.com/archives/1419 If you are developing an Android app, you might be wondering if it’s worth putting the app on app stores other than the Android Market. You might also question whether it’s worth developing an Amazon Fire specific app for the Amazon Market. Ziggy’s Games has some answers to these questions based ... http://mobilephonedevelopment.com/archives/1418 An area that has shown promise but limited success is that of cross-platform app generators. The majority rely on HTML and Javascript and, as such, the look and feel and performance (particularly scrolling) is inferior. I previously posted some tips that identified areas to think about when assessing app generators. My ... http://mobilephonedevelopment.com/archives/1417 Google has some new research performed by Ipsos on Mobile Internet & Smartphone Adoption (pdf). The research covers the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. Some interesting conclusions… More consumers now use a mobile phone (feature phone or smartphone) than a computer (desktop or laptop) across all five countries. The demographics of ... http://mobilephonedevelopment.com/archives/1416 Strategy Analytics has some latest statistics on global tablet shipments for Q4 2011. Global tablet shipments reached 26.8 million units for that quarter which is an increase of 150% year on year.   The iPad saw a contraction of market share that was taken up by Android tablets. While Apple iPads are ... http://mobilephonedevelopment.com/archives/1415 There’s a growing number of devices that aren’t officially sanctioned by Google. What are the implications for developers such as myself? First of all, sanctioned devices, called ‘Google Experience’ devices, have passed Google’s compatibility test suite. This allows them to run Google’s apps such as Gmail, Maps, and Market or as ... http://mobilephonedevelopment.com/archives/1414 There’s a thought provoking post at Mashable on "5 Flaws in Your Mobile Marketing Strategy". It talks of the following flaws in current apps… De-Emphasizing the Unique Nature of the Medium Treating Connected Consumers as Stationary Targets Ignoring the Power of Contextual Relevance Employing Old World, Unidirectional Strategies Not Offering Value in Exchange for Value These ... http://mobilephonedevelopment.com/archives/1413 I came across an interesting paper on Falling Asleep with Angry Birds, Facebook and Kindle – A Large Scale Study on Mobile Application Usage (pdf). It describes a study of 4,125 users, between August 16th 2010 and January 25th 2011. The main conclusion of the study is that mobile device users ... http://mobilephonedevelopment.com/archives/1412