Posts by Christophe Joyau

For all you Swedes out there who are eager to use you phone when doing bank errands, or if you are interested in how a great app for that purpose works, you should check out Handelsbankens new app for Windows Phone 7. The app helps you with common bank errands such as transactions, balance in account, block or open your card for withdrawals abroad or online etc. The app also helps you to get personal [...]

Get familiar with best programming practices using Qt Quick for building applications with QML by exploring the Qt Quick Application Developer Guide for Desktop. The guide helps you through the implementation of NoteApp, a tool for managing daily notes which uses various advanced UI concepts including animations, database storage and Javascript usage for application logic rather than common well-known UI Elements used in desktop applications such as toolbars, menus and dialogs.

International expansion for developer onboarding and payouts has been the number one requested feature for the Microsoft Advertising solution for Windows Phone app developers. Great news! Support for developers is now expanded to additional eleven countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and United Kingdom.

There will be an excellent MobileMonday event on coming Monday in Tallinn. The event will feature one of the world class speaker Andreas Constantinou from VisionMobile – the co-founder and main researcher of this company. Andreas will be presenting extracts from VisionMobile’s latest research on mobile platforms, OEMs, Google and HTML5. On the basis of the Estonian experience, the event will also focus on how to do business in Russian market. There will be Estonians [...]

Take advantage of opportunities with the latest Symbian Phones and the Nokia N9 with the Qt SDK 1.1.4. The release introduces right-to-left and pinch area support (Qt 4.7.4 / Qt Quick 1.1) and new NFC (near field communication) and Bluetooth API:s (Qt Mobility 1.2) The release includes target updates for MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan (now a full release), Symbian Anna Qt 4.7.4 (with Qt Mobility 1.2.1), and Symbian Belle Qt 4.7.4 (with Qt Mobility 1.2.1). The [...]

The business models for developers are expanding. There are currently four main business models to choose from when marketing your app. All models except the free download model can lead directly to revenue. The four models are Free download, Paid download, In-app advertising and In-app Purchasing. Both In-app advertising and In-app Purchasing can be applied to either paid or free downloads. The most common model to create revenue is the Paid download model. There are [...]