People often ask me what mobile platforms they should support. My Mobile Development Primer lists the main considerations…

Geography - Some platforms are more popular in some countries than others
Capability - Some platforms can’t do some things
Demographics – e.g. Some platforms are used more by enterprise than consumers
Your Capability - What can you program and have […]

Today, I came across Robotium for Android. It’s a test framework that allows you to create test cases for Android Activities, Dialogs, Toasts, Menus and Context Menus. There’s a great overview on bitbar.
It’s amazing how many new Android tools, libraries, code samples and tips appear every day. There seems to be a huge developer […]

If you haven’t done so already, I’d take a look at Vision Mobile’s Mobile Developer Economics 2010 sponsored by Telefonica.
One thing I should say is that the term ‘developers’ is a bit misleading in all of this. Mobile developers are driven (employed by) by handset OEMs, carriers, companies, brands, marketing agencies etc. so the economic […]

Appcelerator has a great survey of ‘platform interest’ of 2,733 Appcelerator application developers taken during June 2010. The survey covers… "the perceptions for each of the six major OS platforms: Apple (iOS), Google (Android), Palm/HP (webOS), Microsoft (Phone 7), Nokia (Symbian/Meego) and RIM (BlackBerry)."

While reading the survey, remember historically, that Appcelerator’s customers were primarily iPhone developers […]

Forum Nokia have a great new document and example code explaining how to design websites and optimise them for S60, Maemo, iPhone and Android.
The document and examples are based on standard Nokia Mobile Web Templates for High-End Devices. These..
"Provide a set of fully styled and customisable mobile web elements and are an ideal starting point […]

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is up at mobiEnthusiast.mobi. A post that caught my eye is ‘Evidence against the iPhone Mobsession’ at Mobsessed.
The question is how can you "justify spending a vast amount of your marketing budget on an app that might reach only 4% (in the UK) of your target audience"
As I […]

One of the problems facing app producers at the moment is getting seen. This is especially so with paid apps because users usually look for a free app first and might not even search for a paid app. Most developers tend to create a demo or lite version of their app that helps alleviate this […]