Archive for the ‘Android Development’ Category
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
ChangeWave’s December survey shows Android is used by 4% of smart-phone users (up 3% from September).
Android is the choice for 21% of people planning to buy a smart-phone in the next 90 days (up 15% from September). Compare this to iPhone’s figure of 28%, down 4 points. Satisfaction of Android users is at 72%, almost [...]
Tags: iphone, market share, statistics
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
I was looking to see if there were any frameworks for HTML 5 and came across SproutCore. It’s an MVC framework and has some similarity to GWT in that it compiles all the code into HTML/JS/CSS that should work across browsers without plug-ins. Also like GWT, it has a bunch of panels, buttons, and controls [...]
Tags: framework, html5
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
AdMob’s October 2009 mobile metrics report is out, and it’s clear that the Droid may be a serious contender to the iPhone. Just two weeks after its launch, the Droid accounts for 24% of Android requests.
It should be noted that AdMob measures requests to its advertising delivery system from applications and mobile websites. These numbers [...]
Tags: android, iphone, market share, statistics
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
Gartner released a report last Thursday, November 12, which showed some market share movements in the mobile OS space. iPhone and RIM gained market share, while Symbian and Windows Mobile lost share. Android has gone from 0 to almost 4% of market share. This is in line with Gartner’s prediction that by 2012, Android will [...]
Tags: android, market share, statistics
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
We’re happy to announce that we just launched our first Android™ application! Meet EEBA, the Easy Envelope Budget Aid.

Android’s been all the rage recently with every major carrier making announcements about Android phones and Gartner predicting that by 2012 Android will overtake iPhone. Its open source nature makes it a [...]
Tags: android, eeba, envelope budgeting, envelope method
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Does your current Web strategy include a smartphone accessible Web application? A couple of Dayspring-ers just demo’d a handly little application running on a Google-supplied Android phone. And good timing, as T-Mobile will be bringing out its second Android phone this summer.
But now T-Mobile is coming back with another attempt at an Android phone in [...]
Tags: android, t-mobile
Posted in Accessibility, Android Development, Easy Envelope Budget Aid, Mobile, Products, Web Applications, Web Strategy | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
It’s unclear to me whether these statistics are for all phones or just so-called smartphones. I’m guessing that it’s smartphones given that BlackBerries are as high as they are. These stats are cited by NY Times citing Gartner:
i. Symbian (Nokia) – 52.4% of market – apps are in Java and Flash technology.
ii. BlackBerry – 16.5% – [...]
Tags: android, blackberry, iphone, ovi, skymarket, statistics, symbian, windows mobile
Posted in Android Development, Mobile, Technology | 6 Comments »