Blog - Tag: publishing

Are you looking to publish your application to the Vodafone 360 Shop? Then before you do, please check out the Vodafone 360 Shop Image Style Guide here.

The Vodafone 360 Shop Image Style Guide is a document for anyone that wants to submit content to the Vodafone 360 Shop. The guide contains information regarding the necessary imagery that is required when submitting content to the Vodafone 360 Shop.

Below are a couple of examples from the guide,

The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), an alliance of telecommunications companies committed to building an open applications platform, today announced its formation as a corporate entity, as well as the organisation’s leadership and board of directors. The company also announced that it will join forces with the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL), accelerating the commercial launch of WAC-enabled application stores.

At launch, WAC will allow operators to distribute applications through their respective application storefronts and charge users through their existing phone bill.  In this model, developers will set the application price and will receive a revenue share for the transaction. The ...

Many thanks to everyone for the feedback regarding the Vodafone Apps Manager for Android (Developer Version). We wanted to let you know that we're now updating this tool based on some of the feedback we've received so please consider this and future releases a BETA until we announce a final version. We of course want to make sure that we deliver the best tools for you so please keep that feedback coming in!

And we also wanted to take the opportunity to highlight all the available channels where you can publish your widgets below,

Targeting high end handsets ...

The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) is looking for your feedback so that it can support developers in the best way it possibly can and they’d like to get your input during this formative stage in the creation of WAC. The WAC team have created a survey which can be found below and would very much value your input. Many of the questions are multiple choice, but there are plenty of opportunities for you to provide more detailed comments and feedback. The WAC team will also randomly select two people from the entries who will win a phone each.

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Join the Vodafone & JIL Developer team for a FREE two day event of training and hands-on development fun!

Whether you're an existing widget developer or completely new, we'll have sessions that'll guide you through the steps of development, testing and publication to market of your widgets through Vodafone and JIL

Get up to speed and ready for the event at developer.vodafone.com and JIL.org

Location (Google maps link ) -

HOTEL NH ALCALA 4*
Calle de Alcalá, 66
28009 Madrid

How do I sign up? - Click here to register

Event agenda -

Monday 12th July

Develop [12pm – 2pm ...

Tomorrow sees the Vodafone Developer Team head out to Mobile 2.0 Europe in Barcelona. The event is coined as “a one-day event for developers exploring the future of mobile” and includes 16 different workshop sessions, 14 sessions on the app economy with panels and talks from thought leaders, and rounding off the event is the App Circus where 10 finalists pitch their app for fame.

Our developer team will be around all day at the event to chat to you about developing for Vodafone, you'll also be able to catch some of the team presenting at the following ...

Looking to make your widget available to Vodafone customers with Android phones? Below are a few key questions, with answers, that you need to ask yourself before you get started:

Is your widget optimized for finger touch interaction?

• All Android phones Vodafone will offer this year have touch screens
• Some also have 5-way navigation hardware

Does your widget support correct screen sizes?

• Suggest following fluid layout principles to design UI that scales across many resolutions, pixel densities - details here
• Target resolutions for Android phones:
  • Low: 240x320 (Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini pro)
  • Medium: 320x480 (HTC ...

Looking to publish your widgets on JIL.org for distribution in the Vodafone 360 Shop? Attend this webinar to learn how.

When: 4pm (GMT) Wednesday 14th April 2010

How to register: Click here to register. Please note, places are limited and released on a first come first served basis, so don’t delay. The session will be recorded and made available on the web as soon as possible after the presentation.

Speaker: Jon Price

Webinar details:

Following the recent announcement that you can now publish widgets to the Vodafone 360 Shop through the JIL.org website, we invite you to ...

Today we're excited to announce that you can now publish apps to the Vodafone 360 Shop through the  JIL.org website. The announcement marks the next milestone in the progression of the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) partnership, enabling you to use open Web technologies to create, monetise and distribute apps to customers with JIL-enabled handsets.

Through the JIL.org website developers can publish apps to selected Vodafone operating companies in Europe. Developers can choose to select from one, some or all of the selected markets for each app they publish.

Vodafone offers developers a number of compelling features, including ...