Everyone has been talking about it; Android’s rapid move to the top spot in consumers’ minds. According to the Nielsen report from March 2011, Android had surpassed Apple’s iPhone to acquire 37% of the smartphone market. Recently, Google announced in its second quarter of 2011 that it activates 550,000 Android devices per day! One year
Inside Scoop on the World Wide Developer’s Conference
Kim has been programming mobile applications for many years. This was her second year attending the World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) for CollegeMobile. As a recent graduate from the U of S, Kim also qualified for a ‘Student Scholarship’ and was able to attend the conference for free! Here are the highlights from her experience
The Future of Media
Today I spoke at the Association of Electronic Journalists Prairie Regional Pro conference. The audience is a grouping of TV and radio new reporters and editors from the prairie provinces. There were many reporters there who I met previously while doing interviews. The talk was in a room of about forty people and the topic
Installing a BlackBerry Mobile Application on your BlackBerry Device
Our clients often want to see their BlackBerry Mobile Application as it is being built. This way they can see if the the application is going to suit their needs and can suggest changes along the way during development. This may be small changes like updates to the user interface of the BlackBerry Mobile App
Adding Maps to Apps
How to create a map which works with Mobilversity The Mobilversity platform can display both external and internal maps for a campus. Maps are often one of the most used features on a campus especially during the start of a new term or semester. There are two different ways of creating Maps for the Mobilversity
Native Apps VS Browser Based Apps
There is a raging debate happening in development circles across North America right now – Which approach is best for development on a mobile device. Should we use a native application coded in Objective-C for example or should we use a browser based approach? It is a question that people on both sides of the
U of S ILO commercializes popular iUsask mobile technology
An agreement between the University of Saskatchewan Industry Liaison Office (ILO) and CollegeMobile, creator of the popular iUsask application, will allow the company to further develop and market the highly sought-after technology to national and international markets. iUsask allows students to access information such as grades, campus and class information on their iPhones or other
iPhone App Testing With Ad Hoc Distribution
Clients often want to see their mobile application as it is being built and also to see the final version of the application before it is pushed to the App Store. This is entirely reasonable and I wouldn’t want to publish an application until I know the customer has seen the application in action and