The mobile galaxy is under constant metamorphosis. Since the 2010 edition of Mobile Developer Summit (MDS), several events have shaped the mobile developer ecosystem of today -- Google added Motorola Mobility to its shopping cart, Hewlett Packard discarded webOS, MeeGo is to be replaced by the new Linux-based Tizen OS and new SDKs for iOS, Qt, Windows Phone, bada and other platforms are freshly baked out of the oven with increasing frequency.
Today, there is a wide selection of platforms with which you can realize your mobile vision – some are open source, some are not. The most important native platforms include Android, bada, BlackBerry, Black-Berry Tablet OS (QNX), iOS, Symbian, and Windows Phone. All these platforms enable you to create native applications without establishing a business relationship with the respective vendor. Then there is Flash on Mobile devices, with millions of feature phones supporting it and many smartphones and tablets supporting some Flash content including MeeGo, Symbian, iOS (through Adobe AIR), Android and BlackBerry devices.
The two day agenda at Mobile Developer Summit (MDS), India's biggest multi-platform conference for mobile developers, helped attendees wade through this wide spectrum of platforms and SDKs, by providing qualitative information presented by industry thought leaders and experts who gathered in Bangalore to share their passion, experience, grit and learning. This was an excellent opportunity for attendees to share the floor to debate, rethink the world of mobile, and visualize their future in this ecosystem.
At Mobile Developer Summit, experts and industry veterans held forth on topics ranging from the state of mobile today, to the future of mobile application development, to leveraging the cloud both for developing mobile applications as well as addressing the mobile content life-cycle conundrum. They learned how to approach the challenge of writing code for different devices, as well as techniques and tools that help gain a better understanding of how to leverage emerging technologies in both native and mobile web development. From delivering apps to the world with Nokia and Samsung to unlocking opportunities with Windows Phone, vendors also held forth on some very exciting topics to help users make the right choices.
Download all the available MDS 2011 presentation decks. Look up the picture gallery to view the moments, the wins, and the rapt attention. The feedback captures the brickbats and bouquets MDS 2011 received from stakeholders.
The topics and subsequent content delivers by speakers was intense and extensive. It was great to see such a huge turnout at the summit. I am very eager to attend upcoming Saltmarch summits.
-Kuber Joshi
Indusa Infotech Services
The Program was very well organised, planned in detail and the speakers were more than excellent with in depth knowledge. The speakers shared information that was technically very useful, informative and inspiring. I was so looking forward to this and am greatly satisfied.
- DS Joseph
MDS 2011 Delegate
Attending MDS fired me up, increasing my knowledge of mobile app development and giving me new ideas to develop new apps. Thanks Saltmarch for arranging this.
- Jerry James
MDS 2011 Delegate