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The iPhone OS platform and the App Store have been opening new horizons and creating new business opportunities for the last 2 years. They also are an interesting platform for software developers to create new and innovative solutions using proven languages and frameworks. In this two-part session at MODS 2011, you will learn how to use Xcode and Interface Builder to create a simple iPhone application from scratch. Adrian will guide you step by step, showing you how to integrate design and behaviour to achieve a usable and complete small application.

Software developers with any programming background, interested in creating iPhone and iPad applications using Apple's tools and SDKs will benefit from this talk.

This is the second part of Adrian Kosmaczewski's talk titled "Write Your First iPhone App". Software developers with any programming background, interested in creating iPhone and iPad applications using Apple's tools and SDKs will benefit from this talk. Attendance to Part I of this talk is a pre-requisite to getting grips with this session.

Mobile Devices are drawing attention for the massive increase in how many are in active use compared to PCs. What has been missed in this story is that the uptake is driven by Mobile Apps and Cloud APIs, which are supercharging the mobile computing market. This talk presents the facts about the market landscape, identifies key drivers for the future of mobile computing, and makes specific recommendations for developers, telecommunications operators, and device manufacturers.

The Android OS is a popular and flexible platform for many of today's most in-demand mobile devices. This session offers you a hands-on introduction to the basics of Android development. Topics discussed include:

• Android Architecture and Dalvik VM, the software that runs the apps on Android phones
• Building blocks of Android
• Building Application Screens, Event handling and navigation
• Activity Life Cycle
• ListActivity and Layouts

• Enterprise Mobility at a glance
• More on Android OS
  • Overview
  • Enterprise features, what can be leveraged?
• Extending or building upon Android platform
  • Security Concerns
  • Enterprise Architectures
  • Connecting to backends enterprise systems
  • Using Standard MEAPs, Customizing the MEAPs
  • Device Management Support, Android C2DM Model
• Android Secure Coding Practices for Enterprise

This session will cover Nokia's Location Platform showing the features and functionality of each of the APIs, and how the functionality can be pulled together to create powerful mashups. Incorporate maps, points of interest data, and multi-modal routing into your application and let your users write reviews and 'check-in' to locations across 200 countries. Nokia's Location Platform supports Symbian smart devices, mobile phones and both desktop and mobile web applications.

How to keep pace with the growing needs of Enterprise Mobility ? This session would be focused on some of factors that would influence the growth of Enterprise Mobility. Starting from the benefits, the components, with a brief description of the technology, standards and protocols used for wireless, the discussion will also throw some light upon cloud-based mobility solutions.

With the new camera, compass, and processor power of the iPhone 3GS, it's possible to integrate the iPhone with even more of your users' everyday life using Augmented Reality. Join Jonathan Saggau as he walks you through a demo application for finding your hotel in a strange city. Learn how to use the orientation and magnetometer APIs to place virtual tags on objects in the real world. Depending on weather, we might even head outside to chase down that hotel!

The phone is a very personal device; an extension of one’s own personality. The tablet, on the other hand, is a consumption/development/collaboration device, depending on the time & place it is used. Most developers, when designing for one device, completely ignore, or worse, serve the same app for the other, without utilizing the full potential of differing size factors. It is these fundamental differences that developers must keep in mind while designing & developing multi device apps. I will showcase some simple principles to develop an app for both phones & tablets.

The Presentation Model pattern, or the Code-Behind is an efficient approach to organize code in such a way so as to separate a user interface from its behavior. This pattern allows us to share the code across multiple environments, each with their separate identities, while providing standardization in usability behavior.

We will build an app by doing the following:

• Structure code base to create multiple mobile & library projects
• Connect to a live API to submit parameterized data and display the result
• See how data is shared between the different views of the apps, allowing storage of data in memory when the app is running, and persistence when the app is shut down, either by the user or the system.
• Easily implement mobile UI using resource bundles, CSS & images, thus providing an engaging & aesthetic experience

The takeaway for the audience is to see how easy it is to design & build apps for multiple devices, while optimizing on codebase, thus improving maintainability & achieving a consistent user experience.

IaaS is an important transition and a paradigm shift in IT services delivery - one that promises large gains in efficiency and flexibility at a time when demands on the data center are growing exponentially for development, hosting & distribution needs. The tools, building blocks, and best practices for cloud computing are evolving; IaaS offers a flexible means to access cutting-edge services and infrastructure, access to resources and applications whenever and wherever required.

InstaCompute is a simple yet comprehensive suite of services designed to transform your business by enabling agility with anytime, anywhere access to self-serve, pay-as-you-go business applications and IT infrastructure, all without the expensive capital. During this session, Jyotil Mankad, Head - Cloud Services, Tata Communications, will deal on how to unravel and severely cut back on capital expenditures and maintenance for on-site servers, storage devices, by eliminating hardware acquisition and maintenance cost, So that Organizations can realize substantial savings.

Android runs on a variety of devices that offer different screen sizes and densities. For applications, the Android system provides a consistent development environment across devices and handles most of the work to adjust each application's user interface to the screen on which it is displayed. At the same time, the system provides APIs that allow you to control your application's UI for specific screen sizes and densities, in order to optimize your UI design for different screen configurations. Come to this session to learn the following:

• Building for SmartPhone Vs Building for Tablets. Using Fragments effectively.
• Building for Different Screen Resolutions.
• Automation Testing for Different Screen Resolutions (If time permits)
• Publishing Apps for different devices on Android Market
• Making sure your application runs on every Android Device.

In this session we will walk you through all the steps required in building an app for Windows Phone in an Hour – and relate the secrets of the masters for maximizing your impact. Leverage the graphics, audio and input capabilities of the phone, get up to speed about the new features for gams and app developers in Mango. Also, learn how to leverage the power of the browser top deliver compelling interactive experiences, both inside and outside the context of a traditional application.

bada has evolved itself into Smartphone platform for Everyone. Samsung bada is a user-interactive and service-oriented Smartphone platform that allows you to create feature-rich applications for bada devices using C++, flash, and Web programming. The bada platform allows creating a wide range of applications for bada devices. Recently, Samsung released bada 2.0 SDK and there are many enhancements incorporated into it. In this session, we will explore all new exciting features introduced in bada for developers & end users.

This session will have two parts. In the first part, I’ll talk about generic guidelines for building games targeting the Android platform based on my own experience in building mobile games. Mobile game development is radically different from PC/Console game development. Game developers need to worry a lot about the design considerations including Tombstoning, memory usage, device capabilities, and platform fragmentation. The first part will cover on design principles and examples.

In the second part, I’ll talk about various tools available for building Android games. I’ll quickly give an overview of S3D and other game engines and will move on to a live example of building a simple touch-based game for mobile phones/tablets using Flash Builder. The second part will be a demonstration showing how ActionScript/Flex can be used to build Android games fully supporting gestures and device sensors like accelerometer.

Users of native iPhone apps, even those pulling data from 'the cloud' expect a snappy experience. The 'Death by a thousand papercuts' of a slow UI is possibly the quickest way to disappoint. Follow along with iPhone developer and author Jonathan Saggau as he applies some embedded systems caching tricks to optimize the user experience within example apps, while balancing the trade-offs as a result of caching data.

Designing and developing games for multiple devices, multiple platforms and form factors has been the most common challenge today. In this session, learn the different aspects of game design & development that need to be considered. Understand the challenges from the right perspective and overcome them with one of the best tools and platforms. Learn how Adobe Flash Builder enables you to write code intelligently for all the platforms, including Web, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Android, BlackBerry PlayBook and iOS. Understand how easy the porting and packaging is for these platforms. Understand how Adobe Flash Builder can be used to develop and deploy multi-device games and also how to use third party gaming engines. The session also would briefly cover various methods of creating multiplayer/multi-device games, the new 3D capabilities of Adobe Flash Player to bring out the best user experiences on desktops, tablets and phones.

Cloud computing and mobile are two emerging technologies that can be combined to create novel, hybrid solutions. We discuss how you can connect Google App Engine, using Python, with iOS, Apple's mobile platform, using our open source framework TouchEngine. Inside of TouchEngine, we leverage a heavily modified version of another open-source project, mogenerator. Mogenerator gives TouchEngine the smarts to automatically generate model files for both platforms using the graphical data modeling tools in Xcode.

We change data models' relationships and their attributes in both Python, and Objective-C, during development. On-the-fly refactoring for both platforms then becomes a simple affair. We'll dive deep into the details of how TouchEngine dynamically vends data from Python, in Google App Engine, to Objective-C, in iOS. Deep introspection of model attributes are available through Python's "inspect", and this is coupled with plistlib to share application data using Apple's Property List XML format. Because plist is native to iOS, it obviates the need to write a parser. Finally, we demonstrate how TouchEngine uses CoreData, to cache App Engine data for offline viewing.

If you're interested in learning how to build a Twitter app on your Android phone, this session is a must-attend. Rohit will provide you with a crisp overview of the Twitter API's, and walk you through how to register an application and get your authentication keys to use with OAuth on Twitter. He will also show you how to fetch tweets from Twitter, how you can effectively show Twitter profile images in List Activity and finally tweet from the application.

5 billion mobiles across the globe. 1 out of 2 people have a mobile. 2474 known Languages. 116 officially claimed languages. 50,332,699,002 WebPages as on 2008, written in 43 languages. 650 Languages with their Unicode’s which can be classified into 103 Scripts. 12million text messages in 2000 to 2 Trillion messages to be sent by 2012. Total Number of languages that can be written on a mobile device is around 70+. And bring in other devices to this equation and we can go number crunching.

Today, content consumption on mobile & connected devices is very high vs content creation which still has a huge gap to fill. Addressing this gap called the “Input Gap” is what will bring more life to your devices such as smartphones, tablets, notepads, connected TVs etc. In this presentation we give you an insight into Text Input Technology, the different type of input solutions, few input solutions on Android, features that define assistive text input, OpenSource solutions for text input, challenges to creating input solutions for Android, the vast language needs of users, intricacies of languages, fonts & font rendering engines on Android, high level architecture of Input Method service on Android, Indic Language support on Android and related topics.

This session is a continuation from Learn to Build a Twitter App for Android - Part I. You will learn:

• Polling Tweets at regular Interval
• Using Background Services
• Using Database to cache the tweets
• Using Notifications to inform about new Tweets