by admin on February 1, 2010
Android is coming to a town near you. Google have announced they are taking Android on a world tour so that developers can speak to “Android Advocates”. If you attend the events you’ll be able to ask questions about the Android platform and have a go with the new Software Development Kit (SDK). You’ll also be able to try out various Android devices, test apps and talk to other developers.
Google seems to want to get developers more involved and developer closer relationships them. It might be an opportunity you don’t want to miss.
Here are the dates and location of the events. You can register here: https://sites.google.com/site/androiddevlabs/register
| Feb. 4, 2010 |
Austin, Texas, USA |
5pm-9pm |
Open!
|
| Feb. 8, 2010 |
Seattle, Washington, USA |
2pm-6pm |
Closed. Session Full! |
| Feb. 8, 2010 |
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
|
2pm-6pm |
Closed. Session Full! |
| Feb. 9, 2010 |
Washington D.C., USA |
2pm-6pm |
Closed. Session Full! |
| Feb. 10, 2010 |
Mountain View, California, USA |
2pm-6pm |
Closed. Session Full! |
| Feb. 11, 2010 |
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
2pm-6pm |
Open!
|
| Feb. 12, 2010 |
New York, New York, USA |
2pm-6pm |
Closed. Session Full! |
Europe
| Date |
Location |
Time * |
Status |
| Feb. 2, 2010 |
London, UK |
9am-1pm |
Closed. Session Full! |
| Feb. 8, 2010 |
Paris, France |
2pm-6pm |
Closed. Session Full! |
| Feb. 10, 2010 |
Berlin, Germany |
2pm-6pm |
Closed. Session Full! |
| Feb. 12, 2010 |
Zurich, Switzerland |
2pm-6pm |
Open!
|
| Feb. 13, 2010 |
Madrid, Spain |
10am-2pm |
Closed. Session Full! |
Asia
| Date |
Location |
Time * |
Status |
| Feb. 28, 2010 |
Singapore (
|
TBD |
Closed. Session Full! |
| March 3, 2010 |
Taipei, Taiwan |
12:30-4:30pm |
Open! |
| March 5, 2010 |
Hong Kong |
1pm-5pm |
Open!
|
by admin on January 30, 2010
So we all know about the new Apple iPad, the device that is placed half way between a smart phone and a notepad computer. It’s an amazing piece of equipment, and starting from $499 it doesn’t seem like too hefty a price to pay for a piece of the latest Apple technology.
REUTERS
How though will the iPad affect Android development. Android already has the problem that there are so many more iPhones on the market than Android phones. With the iPad it takes yet more of the development focus away from Android and more onto the iPhone Open Source.
A small developer that doesn’t have the budget to develop for all platforms may well choose to only develop for Apple’s platforms.
Competition of course isn’t a bad thing but with more focus being taken away from Android again, firms with smaller budgets only looking to develop for one platform may go for the iPhone/ iPad market purely because of the mass market appeal.
It’s too early to say how well the iPad will do. It’s very unlikely that it will fail because of the backing and expertise it has behind it from Apple. It probably won’t do as well as the iPhone or iPad purely because they were phenomenons that took the market by storm and were very different from anything else we had seen before.
The iPad is too similar to the iPhone in design and function to be game changing like the above mentioned devices, but it will be popular and it will and probably has already taken development focus away from Android.
