The document discusses various mobile development platforms as of February 2011, highlighting the market share of different operating systems such as Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. It provides an overview of the development tools and SDKs available for each platform, as well as statistics on app availability and downloads. The document emphasizes the importance of user experience and suggests strategies for indie developers to succeed in the competitive mobile market.

1. Arkavidia 2.0, Feb 19, 2011
Mobile Development Platforms
Andri Yadi
CEO, DyCode
a@dycode.com | @andri_yadi

2. I’ll try hard not to take a side

3. About me
about.me/andri

4. A movie freak
Movreak

5. A coder & entrepreneur

6. 8 years in mobile development

7. An Apple Fanboy

8. © 2001 Turner Network Television

10. © 2001 Turner Network Television

11. Without software,
I’m just sitting here

12. 4.6
Billion
mobile phones
70% of planet population

13. Mobile Development Platform

14. 30 minutes is not enough to talk about
all platforms

15. 3% 3% Android
Symbian
14%
33%
iOS
16% Blackberry
Windows Phone/
Mobile
31% Others
Smartphone OS Market Share, Q4 2010
*Source: Canalys estimates, ©Canalys 2010

16. Windows Phone 7
http://developer.windowsphone.com

17. 8,460 apps
3,700s developers
Source: http://wp7applist.com/stats, Feb 18, 2011

18. XNA
Silverlight
Framework

19. Visual Studio 2010 + WP7 Add-in
Expression Blend
Tools
Windows Phone Dev. Tools
(VS2010 Express + Simulator + Expression Blend for WP7 +
XNA Game Studio)

20. http://forum.nokia.com

21. 175 mil devices
30,000 apps
4 mil downloads/day
Source: http://www.forum.nokia.com/Distribute/Ovi_Store_statistics.xhtml

22. Native (Qt) Java Web Runtime Flash Lite

23. C++
Native Apps Nokia Qt SDK
Qt SDK & Qt Creator IDE
Qt Quick

24. Series 40, S60, Symbian^3
Java NetBeans or Eclipse
Nokia UI API 1.1b
Java Runtime 2.1

25. HTML, JS, CSS
Web Runtime Guarana UI library
Aptana, Dreamweaver, VS
Web-enabled with Qt

26. http://developer.android.com

27. 169,000
Apps on Android Market
Source: http://blog.androidzoom.com/2011/02/01/androidmarketzoom/ - Feb, 2011

28. Java SDK NDK Web Runtime Adobe Air

29. Android SDK
Tools Eclipse + ADT Plugin
Android Platforms

30. http://us.blackberry.com/developers/

31. Smartphone OS
Java SDK WebWorks SDK

32. Eclipse + BB Java Plug-in
BB Smartphone simulator
Phone dev. tools
BB JDE
Tips: download full installer

33. Tablet OS, a.k.a QNX
Adobe Air WebWorks SDK

34. VMWare to run the simulator
Tablet OS image
Tablet dev. tools
Adobe AIR SDK v2.5
WebWork SDK for tablet

35. http://developer.apple.com/ios

36. 160,000,000
iOS devices shipped

37. 353,427 Apps
115 Apps/Day
74,419 Publishers
10 bn downloads
Source: http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics - Feb 18, 2011

38. Native SDK
Web Runtime
(Objective-C)

39. iOS SDK + Xcode
Prereqs & Tools iOS Dev. Program
(to test on the devices & apps submission)
iOS devices would be cool!

40. Powerful
C++
Hard Easy
Java ME
Mobile web
Weak

41. Too many SDKs?

42. Flickr photo by Thomas Purves: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomaspurves/744225198/

47. “Indie”: US$99
“Pro”: US$2,500

49. Make it personal!

50. 30% code, 70% UX

51. Take a look at successful apps on 1 platform,
create similar apps for another platforms

52. Release early, release often

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Mobile revolut
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55. If you think you’re
awesome, either mobile
developer guru or still
early learner, send your
awesome CV to
hrd@dycode.com

56. http://www.dycode.com
o ce@dycode.com
@dycode
Andri Yadi | a@dycode.com | @andri_yadi