Mobile App

I’m still fairly new to mobile development, just a little over a year. As I dig deeper, it just gets more and more interesting. This won’t be a technical writing like a tutorial but more to how the development scene has been evolving for the past 1 year. Putting it simple: Trends. I started my mobile development efforts with Blackberry. Against all odds, I installed the SDK on a Windows virtual machine using Parallels Desktop. The experience developing using a virtual machine was painful. For long term use, it’s too slow and too awkward. Anyways, I managed to connect the Blackberry device with the IDE. So I created my first Hello World with it. It took me a great deal of my time learning about the platform. Most of the key information are for paid developers unfortunately and sadly enough, BIS is needed and I didn’t have it. A big roadblock for a newbie developer. ...

We’ve all heard, used, tweaked and cherish Google Analytics either for its web or mobile web capabilities of serving us information about our visitors. So I’ve been wondering about a mobile app equivalent I can use with the exception of mobile ad networks. I came across Flurry a couple months ago and still using it until now. One of Flurry’s edge compared to other platforms is plainly and simply because it’s the most flexible and complete with a price tag 0 in any currency. For time being it doesn’t have any options for paid versions but they do say that in the future they will add paid features. ...