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The GSMA mWomen Program announces the launch of the mWomen BOP (Base of the Pyramid) App Challenge, sponsored by Vodafone.

This exciting challenge aims to leverage the significant demand for innovative App design and provide original and fresh customised App solutions targeted at the specific needs of women in developing countries.

This global challenge is two tiered: Tier 1 will be an App for a low-­-end device or feature phone and Tier 2 will be an App for Smart Phones.

The winners will be announced at the 2011 GSMA Mobile World Congress, the mobile industry’s premier event, hosted ...

This is the first in a series of posts that will attempt to address building mobile widgets that will scale properly between multiple devices. We will look at how we can deal with multiple screen resolutions, varying screen PPI (pixel per inch) densities, as well as gracefully switching between portrait and landscape modes.

This article is going to build on the concepts that were introduced in the “How to really cope with varying screen sizes and pixel resolutions in Vodafone Widgets”. Here we will actually build a sample widget that scales dynamically.

This post is going to set the stage ...

This months Vodafone developer newsletter is due to go out next week, aiming for Wednesday 28th. If you want to get our monthly summary of developer news, events and app / developer spotlights etc, then please sign up here.

The sizing of text and graphical elements on different displays is a fairly complex problem in Web development. It is different to what you simulate when you drag your browser window to different sizes – because it is more about the pixel's physical size. A working solution to this is built into the Vodafone Widget Manager and it's only based on standards: CSS, CSS Media Queries and JavaScript.

Pixel-Density

Displays have two obvious characteristics: The sheer physical size and the number of pixels they are made of, often called "resolution". However these two are actually combined into a third ...

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 ...

If you’re in the Porto area on 8^th July, why not drop by the Talks 2.0 Dinners 2.0 event. At the event you'll get a chance to hear about "Development of Mobile Experiences in Portugal" and a chance to hear from the Vodafone App Star winner Pedro Campos, who will also be speaking there.

Find out more about the event here.

Talks 2.0 is an initiative that brings together a series of conferences/workshops/rendezvous where the professional and academic technological communities are invited to share information, coach and support entrepreneurship.

Dinners 2.0 ...

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 ...

We’re busy building out our plans for the technical content & tools we will have on developer.vodafone.com, and we’d like your input so we can deliver, to you, the best resources for your widget and native app development. Below is an example of the types of resources we are looking to cover,

• Getting started (including - API's / reference, Tutorials, Code snippets, Best practice, Localisation info for markets)
• Tools & Resources (including - SDK / Packager / Emulator, Signing, Testing, QA)
• User Experience Design (including – Guidelines, Patterns, Showcase apps)
• Publishing (including - How to guides, Vodafone 360 Shop guidelines)

To enable us to ...

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 ...

If you are lucky enough to be in Lisbon at 6.30 pm this Wednesday (16^th June), then why not attend the 6^th Ignite Portugal event. Especially as we will have the participation of Vodafone Portugal, represented by Nuno Inácio, who will be addressing the audience with a presentation of what has been done by Vodafone to energise and encourage the Portuguese mobile developer community to participate on their recent projects.

Nuno will also be discussing the fact that all the great work that has been produced by Vodafone Portugal on their Apps project is due to the ...