Archive of posts filed under the Mobile Apps category.

Adobe Tooling goes mobile with Adobe Touch Apps

Today at the Adobe MAX 2011 keynote, Kevin Lynch announced the Adobe Touch Apps which are a set of apps running on Tablets making their tools mobile. Look at the videos to look how Adobe tools become mobile!
Check out Photoshop touch and Proto, pretty impressive.
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PhoneGap acquired by Adobe goes Open Source with Apache Foundation

Today an interesting announcment from Adobe which acquired PhoneGap and that the framework will go open source with Apache Foundation license.
“PhoneGap has proven to be an industry-defining app solution for HTML5 developers,” said Danny Winokur, vice president and general manager, Platform, Adobe. “PhoneGap is a fantastic solution for developing a broad range [...]

Amazon Kindle Fire era!

When Apple launched the iPhone I made a post about Apple becoming a Mobile Content Network Operator. History reapeats itself!
I think Amazon Kindle Fire might be the same idea. The secret behind the iPhone success is iTunes! iTune has been the platform that lead Apple to drive all paying customers into the iPhone/iPad era. Yes, [...]

Adobe AIR: Multi-Screen application running on Android, iOS and Playbook

Here is a video showcasing Adobe AIR application running on multiple devices and OS, such as Android, iOS an PlayBook.
While the press always point to Flash on the web or mobile web, the power of Adobe AIR to develop for multiple devices is a very good proposition which does get much attention.

by the way, Adobe [...]

Nokia Store from Nokia Beta Labs available for testing

Nokia Beta Labs released a new Nokia Store client for some devices and they are looking for feedback.
The Nokia Store is a QML client and it’s available for the following devices: Nokia C6-01, C7-00, C7 Astound, E7-00, N8-00, X7-00.
“This beta Store client will replace the current Store client on your Symbian^3 or Symbian Anna [...]

Symbian Anna and Belle

Nokia released a new update for their Symbian^3 devices, Symbian Anna. They also announced the latest Symbian Belle OS in addition to several devices which are all Flash Lite 4 enabled:

Nokia 500
Nokia 600
Nokia 700
Nokia 701

I just installed Symbian Anna on my Nokia E7 and Nokia N8 and it looks like a great update especially the [...]

New Android Market app!

Via Android dev blog, a new app for the Android Market is on the way to Android phones and tablets. The new client should allow users to buy books and movies but it might be limited at some country at the moment.
“The new Market client is designed to better showcase top apps and games, [...]

Nokia Ovi Store 6 Million daily downloads

Via Nokia Developers, the Nokia OVI Store has reached 6M downloads per day.

300,000 new Nokia accounts are created daily
48,000 apps now available
190 countries and over 30 languages
121 operators across 42 countries

“By the end of May 2011, more than 170 developers had each exceeded 1 million downloads on Ovi Store. Among those developers, 15 companies [...]

Nokia N9 video

Here is a great video showcasing the Nokia N9

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AIR 2.7 Mobile for Android available for download

Via Paul, great news today, a new release is available for AIR 2.7 and AIR 2.7 SDK. Check your Android device for the update.

Enhanced rendering for iOS – AIR apps for iOS render up to 4x faster in CPU mode. This change will improve the performance of many AIR for iOS apps, including those built [...]

ATT: energy-efficient apps

Via ATT Research Lab, an interesting article focusing on how to create energy efficient mobile applications.

“Energy states are characterized not only by battery consumption, but by utilization of network resources. In fact, the app and network together negotiate the proper energy state for the device. When the device needs to transmit data, [...]