Blog - Tag: apps

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 a broad range of developers including a mix of freelance and enterprise developers, with a range of experience, coding skills and interests.

The event program, which ran from 10:00-22:00, included,

• Lightening talks - wherein each API team presented their API, use case and tips to encourage development on their APIs
• Skills and concept pitches by attendees
• Coding Session
• Final presentations and app demos
• Judging and prizes awarded to the ...

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 vehicle to drive readership and acceptance of the new GSMA Developer Guidelines aimed at optimizing battery life and reducing judicious use of mobile network resources. Backed by mobile operators including Vodafone, Bharti Airtel, KT Corporation, NTT DOCOMO, Orange, Rogers Communications, Telecom Italia, TeliaSonera, Verizon Wireless and VimpelCom, this initiative is open to all GSMA members to support.

The Challenge Grand Prize is $10,000 and the overall winner will be ...

Vodafone R&D is engaged in several W3C working groups, amongst them Geolocation, with the aim of advancing web technologies and make the web a first-class development platform.

On January 25th, we put out a developer Survey in order to gather your feedback as a developer and user to make the Geolocation API better for you. We basically wanted to gather requirements we could bring in to version 2 of the API. The survey was open for over a month and 47 developers took part. Out of these, 41 of them also expressed their opinion from a user's point ...

After two days of intense coding the four winners of the mobile app developer competition Indie Fikra: Appathon 2012 were announced yesterday by Vodafone Qatar and QITCOM. First place was grabbed by team “Stalkers” with their mHealth app called Onigiri. Onigiri is designed to teach children with or at risk for diabetes how to live a healthy lifestyle through their caring for a diabetic digital pet.  

Second place was awarded to team “Noble” for their interactive magazine and comic called Abtal 22 which is aimed at exciting kids about football and the coming 2022 world cup.  Third place went to ...

This week the GSMA announced a new set of Mobile Application Privacy Guidelines to help developers design privacy into their apps. Vodafone helped create these and we have committed to implementing them for all new own-branded apps in the next 6 months. A number of other major mobile operators have committed to implementing them – see the press release with supporting statements from the companies.

We know our customers care about their privacy. Take a quick look at this infographic. And we hear from many developers who are looking for help in navigating this difficult area. These guidelines are an important ...

Looking for the next wave in personal mobile communications? Then look no further, Rich Communication Suite - Enhanced (RCS-e) is a set of new communication services to improve traditional communication. joyn™ is the commercial name for RCS-e, which is an industry standard that will eventually be adopted by mobile operators across the world including Vodafone, where we are currently running trials.

For consumers joyn™ will deliver an experience beyond voice and SMS by providing them with instant messaging or chat, live video sharing and file transfer across any device, on any network, with anyone in their mobile address book.

For developers ...

The GSMA today announced the first in a series of activities designed to help users and operators manage the growing traffic and signalling demands generated by smartphones and mobile applications. The GSMA has created a developer’s guide which will help application developers ensure their applications are more user- and network-friendly. Along with this guide, the GSMA is launching the “Smarter Apps Challenge” competition to drive the development of efficient mobile applications.

The guidelines consist of a set of recommendations for application developers that will enable improvements across a number of areas including application connectivity, power consumption, network reliability and ...

The Vodafone R&D group is engaged in several W3C working groups in order to standardize different web related technologies so as to make the web a first-class platform for developing rich applications, with access to device capabilities, amongst other things and in a way which is interoperable amongst browsers and devices. One of the APIs being worked on is the Geolocation API (http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html), and with this survey, we would like to gather your feedback as a developer and user in order to make this API better for you.

It’ll only take ...

Creating an app that looks good, works for the most possible customers and is easy to find, can seem like a challenge. When in fact it really doesn’t need to be, especially as sometimes the best recipes for success are surprisingly simple.

And to make it life easier for you we’re here to help with some straightforward tips and advice in the following articles:

The look of your app is important

For users, it's the first quality indicator they see. Attractive design, clear and effective layouts that feel optimal on the user's device, and high quality ...

Last night we were delighted to announce the winners of the inaugural Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards at a ceremony attended by the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes and Vodafone Group Chief Executive Vittorio Colao.

See the winners video here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K59FziRk0bU

The competition opened in June and after a number of judging rounds the final four winners were decided by a panel consisting of representatives from Vodafone Foundation, Vodafone Group Services Limited, Guardian Media Group plc the European Disability Forum and AGE Platform Europe.

The mobile internet is central to the daily ...