Blog - Tag: applications

In the week of the first EU Digital Assembly in Brussels, Vodafone Foundation is launching the Smart Accessibility Awards. This is a new competition to promote the development of IT applications designed to improve the lives of people with disabilities and older people to help them become more actively involved in society. 

The programme is supported and co-organized by AGE Platform Europe, the European network of around 160 organisations of and for people aged 50+, and the European Disability Forum (EDF), the NGO that represents the interests of 80 million Europeans with disabilities.

Launched in Brussels, the competition will award ...

Getting your app in front of users, converting visibility into downloads, and converting downloads into revenue, is an increasingly complicated trick to pull off.

Both stores and apps have rapidly proliferated. What used to be a problem of availability (if you weren't "on the deck" there was nowhere else to go) is now a problem of visibility (you're in the store, but no one is finding you).

To get you started we’ve created an article that pulls together some basic advice for app developers on why you should be marketing your app. Read the full article here ...

Intents are one of Android's "Big Ideas". From the beginning, Android was conceived as a "mobile mashup platform". We commonly think of mashups in a web context, as a "remix" UI displaying data from multiple services within a page. With apps, and Android, the opportunity is a little bit different, but the idea is the same – to enable developers to aggregate and build on the work of others, and to "stand on the shoulders of giants" when creating new apps.

In Android, "remixing" other apps to build your own app means re-using the functionality and UIs of other apps ...