It’s been a while since a quality “developer focused” event happened in Bangalore, India’s Silicon Valley. Developers were looking for a platform to showcase their latest innovative Mobile ...
Help customers discover your apps in Vodafone AppSelect!
Follow these simple steps to optimise your apps metadata in Vodafone AppSelect. Accurate and effective metadata can make all the difference between achieving and even beating your download goals or being undiscovered or overlooked by users.
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Leverage the power of Rich Communication Suite - Enhanced in your apps!
We're really excited to introduce Rich Communication Suite - Enhanced (RCS-e) and joyn™, the next wave in personal mobile communications.
Enhance your apps to take advantage of the new RCS-e capabilities via a 3rd party SDK (from Jibe Mobile™ in partnership with Vodafone). The SDK will enable your apps to leverage the "no registration, it's just there, it just works" principles of RCS-e, leverage the phone address book for viral invites and use chat, file transfer and IP comms to unleash new categories of apps and services, including mobile multiplayer games.
Don’t hide your app, help customers easily find it in Vodafone AppSelect
Accurate and effective metadata can make all the difference between achieving (or even beating!) your download goals, or being undiscovered and overlooked by users.
Taking the time to optimise your submission will ensure that you get the best from Vodafone AppSelect, that more potential users find your app, and that you convert discovery into user downloads.
This article provides practical tips to help you optimise your AppSelect metadata.
Do you have a free or paid Android app? Then why not publish it for distribution in Vodafone AppSelect, it only takes a few simple steps!
Five tips for successful mobile apps
With the recent launch of Vodafone AppSelect customers are looking for apps that stand out from the crowd, and creating useful and innovative mobile apps isn't rocket science. In fact, the best recipe for success is surprisingly simple:
- Match your own skills and interests to an everyday problem, and solve it better, or with a difference
- Stay focused on the user experience
- Pay attention to the details
To help get you on the right track we have a paper that offers five straightforward tips to help you plan and implement successful mobile apps.
Vodafone first in Europe to launch Android Market own-brand content channel
We are the first operator in Europe to have announced the introduction of the Vodafone channel on the Android Market. This will allow millions of customers across Europe to have access to exciting new Vodafone content quickly and easily and often exclusively or at promotional prices.
So what does this mean for you, the developer?
This is different to Vodafone AppSelect in that it's not a complete retail experience but it is a branded, promotional window which is limited to 25 items. This window will be used to showcase Vodafone's own services complimented with select content from partners. If you have any questions about this then please contact us using the Support tab on the right of this page.
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Earlier this month Vodafone developer participated in the API Hackathon (London) along with Apigee and a number of API providers, including Pearson, European Directories, InMobi and Soundcloud.
The event attracted ...
We're in the middle of a number of upgrades to our App publishing system and as a result we are currently unable to display information about your app downloads ...
Update 12:00 (CET) 04th April 2012 : Service is up and running again.
We are planning scheduled maintenance to our Apps Publishing Platform (http://developer.vodafone.com/upload) and as ...
The GSMA Smarter App Challenge, launched at Mobile World Congress 2012, encourages developers to create mobile applications that are more user and network friendly. The Smarter App Challenge as a ...
Enhance your apps with Rich Communication Suite – Enhanced (RCS-e)
Unleash new categories of apps and services, including mobile multiplayer games with Rich Communication Suite – Enhanced (RCS-e). Check out the video of the multi-player “fast twitch” Air Hockey game with mobile address book friend discovery and instant play invitations below. Interested? Then find out how you can enhance your apps to take advantage of the new RCS-e capabilities here.
Vodafone developer meets The Guardian
In the second of our video profiles with The Guardian’s mobile team, Rupert Bates, Lead Android Developer, explains how they approached bringing the best of Guardian.co.uk to the Android platform. He gives us an insight into how the mobile experience differs to online, the importance of personalisation and testing, as well as an overview of what to expect from the next version of the app.
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