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Make An iPhone, Android App Without Knowing A Line Of Code. With JamPot's TheAppBuilder, you can build a genuine iPhone or Android app in mere minutes for free--according to the company's own website. The young company, savvy to the ever-shifting smartphone market, says it will soon support Windows Phone 7 too, meaning it'll address the market that RIM seems to be losing its grip on very fast according to new surveys on smartphone use.

The idea behind TheAppBuilder, JamPot's VP of Sales Matthew David explained to Fast Company, is simple. By using its web interface, pretty much anyone, no matter their coding expertise, can create a smartphone app and have it running on their device within minutes. They're not web apps, not a clever HTML5 app-like experience--they're genuine native apps, optimized for each platform's particular foibles. And within a couple of weeks, makers expect TheAppBuilder to support Windows Phone 7 with all the, as David phrased it, "fantastic" attributes of Metro. Apps sell by the tens of billions. iOS Dev Center. Mobile app design considerations for web designers. Everywhere you turn these days people are talking about mobile apps.

Apps for this, apps for that. The statistics too, have been kind of staggering. One recent study by Flurry, showed that consumers spent 81 minutes per day using mobile apps, compared to 74 minutes of web surfing. As more people begin to spend time on appms compared to the Internet, you may be wondering if mobile app design is an area you should begin to explore and how transferable your web design skills are. In this post, we checked in with a number of experts in the field to gain their perspectives. Robin Nixon Robin Nixon is a technical author and web developer, and is the author of the new book HTML5 for iOS and Android: A Beginner’s Guide. sWhat advice would you give to web designers who are thinking about entering the area of mobile app design and development? How transferable are web skills? In your opinion, what app(s) do you think are good examples of a well-designed app? The Elements Aaron Maxwell Sarah Lynn Do it.

Android App Developers GUI Kits, Icons, Fonts and Tools-Speckyboy Design Magazine. Hot on the heels of our previous GUI article, iPhone and iPad Development GUI Kits, today we focus on Android development. The idea is the same: To help streamline your app design and development, with a fairly comprehensive collection of Android GUI kits, icons, fonts, .psds and tools, that will allow you to focus on developing rather than having to design everything from scratch. In comparison to Apples iPhone, the Android interaction design guidelines are far from being extensive nor are they as regimental.

Androids guidelines are comprehensive and clear enough, yet they do allow a little room for some original design creativity – which is good. Of course, there is a reason why there are design guidelines, and they should not be abused (nice to be original though), the guidelines will help you to create a polished and uniformed experience for the user. (You can read more about the Android design guidelines below). Android GUI Guidelines AnDroidDraw Android Wireframe Templates Glyphish. HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

So, you're a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. You're undertaking something that's both simple and ambitious, and you're probably looking for a bit of help. But do you use one of the many do-it-yourself tools online, or do you call in a professional? If you find you need a developer to work with you, do you reach out to a freelancer or do you call an agency? And when — if ever — do you need to hire your own full- or part-time, in-house dev to work on your website and applications? Here's a quick overview of the ins and outs of getting web work done as an SMB — as always, with tight budgets in mind. DIY Tools There are quite a few do-it-yourself options for the thrifty entrepreneur.

Google's App Inventor is a good example of a DIY tool. Dev Shops and Agencies. Bygg din egen Android-app. Android är ett fritt och öppet operativsystem för mobiltelefoner. Det är baserat på Linux och utvecklas av Google tillsammans med Open Handset Alliance. Fördelarna jämfört med andra operativsystem för telefoner är att mobiltillverkare kan anpassa Android utan att betala licensavgifter. Dessutom är utvecklarna inte låsta till en viss mobiltillverkare, utan kan nå ut till fler användare med sina applikationer. 1 Vi bygger nyhetsläsare Vår utgångspunkt är en applikation från nyhetssajten IDG.se.

När applikationen öppnas visas ett gränssnitt med fyra flikar, varav den aktiva visar löpsedeln. I den här artikeln ska vi skapa en applikation som är baserad på den här nyhetsläsaren, men alla exempel är generella. Så här vill vi att IDG-applikationens användargränssnitt ska ut. 2 Android kör java Androidapplikationer skrivs i java. Varje Androidapplikation körs under en java virtual machine (jvm) i en egen Linuxprocess med ett unikt användarnamn. Det finns fyra typer av applikationskomponenter. App Advice. TinyApps.Org : Home.