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Samsung officially opens registration for first Developer Conference, will unveil new SDKs & S Pen features >> 9to5Google

guardiantech — 2013-08-26T19:06:30+00:00

Samsung originally planned to open up registration for its first developer conference earlier this month, but after a short delay, the company has finally announced today that it’s accepting sign-ups for the event. This will be the first time Samsung comes to San Francisco to host a developer conference, something Google and Apple have been doing for years and commonly use to introduce new products and upcoming developer facing features. Samsung too plans to unveil some new services and features for developers.

Including S-Pen, ChatOn, Group Play, AdHub, Context Aware and more. Don't underestimate Samsung's ambitions to create its own ecosystem inside Android - or even separate of it. What if - what if? - Samsung forked Android?

Apple credits security researcher Balic, but not for vulnerability related to Developer Center >> TechCrunch

guardiantech — 2013-08-20T21:06:55+00:00

Matthew Panzarino:

The vulnerability reported directly below [Ibrahim] Balic’s entry [which related to iAd] was credited to 7dscan.com and SCANV and is annotated with Apple’s Developer Center address. It seems far more likely that these two researchers are the ones who discovered the remote code execution vulnerability in the Developer Center which caused the outage. For researchers who are in this game, the credit from a company is the reward, so they most likely reported it to Apple. Once it had been confirmed, Apple was worried enough to take the Dev Center down to fix the problem.

Fits with what we reported previously: Balic's claims didn't fit with his claim to have hacked developer details.

Microsoft Build: No Moscone mojo on Apple's and Google's turf >> InfoWorld

guardiantech — 2013-06-26T21:55:24+00:00

Paul Krill:

The big news was at transformation of Bing to a platform for application and Web developers for much more ban its traditional text search. New APIs allow analytics and parsing of images, geographic data, and natural language, with Siri-like voice recognition and Google-like human-language translation. The Bing platform should let apps become the eyes, ears, and even mouth of apps, said Pradeep Singh Pall, director of the Bing effort, in a way that could compete strongly with Google's similar technology vision and Apple's Siri-centric APIs. It will be intesting to see whether and how Siri uses the Bing APIs now that iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks will use Bing for Siri search.

Microsoft shows us it can listen, but is the BUILD developer audience listening? >> Pocket-lint

guardiantech — 2013-06-26T21:53:42+00:00

Mark Prigg is in San Francisco:

Microsoft’s Build conference is an unashamedly developer event, unlike the others which also try to pander to the invited consumer press. Here, it seems the keynote is almost a bit of a delay for people who really want to get to their technical sessions. Even as people enter the vast hall, it’s a slow, steady walk rather than the hilarious "running of the nerds" that marks the start of Apple’s keynotes when people are finally let in.
"There definitely isn’t the level of enthusiasm you’d see at Apple - for instance, when Apple announced auto updating apps, I thought the roof was going to come off," Carolina Milanesi of Gartner tells us. "Here, it’s far quieter, and there just isn’t the same energy in the room. It’s about work, and about developers learning new things in the sessions, and that’s why people come."

Helpfully, they get a free Surface Pro and Acer Iconia too.

Farewell Android >> Peek&Co

guardiantech — 2012-12-27T23:05:55+00:00

Peek has built a wide range of products and technologies in the last few years
- a full stack hardware/OS/app low-cost smartphone
- a port of our cloud apps for mass market embedded OS phones
- applications for video sharing and picture sharing on iOS for customers
- our core products on mail, social, etc plus games and other apps for Android
- customer work on Android
- web app layer stuff to power other people’s mobile apps
- a full toolkit for deploying real-time smartphone apps onto featurephone OSes
In all that work, the products that earned us the least engagement, money, and time –> Android products
We’ll announce some of the good results of our work on other platforms soon. But Android, farewell for now. We’ve decommissioned our various Google Play market apps this several weeks and switched off our apps.

Surprising. (There's also a graph showing the number of active device installs.) Any iOS equivalents where they've abandoned the platform?

iOS vs. Android: impact of in-app purchases on revenue gap >> Tech-Thoughts

guardiantech — 2012-11-06T12:48:37+00:00

Sameer Singh hacks through the data from different sources, which disagrees really quite a lot:

This really highlights how subjective app-related data can be and shows that we need to look at multiple perspectives before reaching a conclusion. However, if the revenue growth data is accurate, it does appear that the growth in in-app purchases has reduced the revenue gap between iOS and Google Play.

(Thanks @hotsoup for the link)

True confessions of a former iPhone developer >> ZDNet

guardiantech — 2012-08-17T21:18:02+00:00

May not be typical of broader experience (he spent a month writing a variety of "Days to..." apps back in the early days of the App Store) but still interesting.

Text from Xcode >> Tumblr

guardiantech — 2012-06-06T21:58:00+00:00

You don't have to develop with Xcode to find this funny.

Android Design - UI Overview >> Android developer

guardiantech — 2012-01-21T21:30:52+00:00

Android now has its own design language, for 4.0 onward. Looks very smooth and well thought-out. And also, "We’ve made the inclusion of the unmodified Holo theme family a compatibility requirement for devices running Android 4.0 and forward. If the device has Android Market it will have the Holo themes as they were originally designed.", Is this the end of skinning a la Samsung TouchWiz and HTC Sense?

Introducing developer drop-ins >> guardian.co.uk

guardiantech — 2011-04-11T16:31:08+00:00

"Throughout May, the Guardian is opening its offices to developers as part of our commitment to the developer community. Each day from 4pm, you'll be able to turn up with your laptop and coffee, meet other developers, collaborate on projects or simply have somewhere to work for a few hours."

Note that you will need to sign up in advance.