mobile in a nutshell
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A presentation given at Newport City Campus for the skillset Academi+. This covers many aspects of the mobile space.TRANSCRIPT
Mobile in a NutshellMatthew Gaunt
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Tuesday, 27 March 12
Hello
Matthew GauntSoftware Engineer @ Future Platforms
PreviouslySenior Android Developer @ MubalooMSc Computer Science @ University of Bristol
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Take everything with a pinch of salt
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Talking About...
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• Platforms
• iOS, Android, WP7, Blackberry, Bada etc.
• Form Factors
• Cross Platform Tools
• The Real World
• Case Studies
• Q & A
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iOS
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• Pretty Good Toolset
• Fragmentation?
• Have to play nice with Apple Seem to be getting better
• Overcrowded App store
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iOS
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iOS
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Android
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• Dev tools are good and bad
• UI Guidelines are here to stay
• Easy to stand out as a good app
• Growing fast - 850k Activations a day
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Android - Money...
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WP7
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• Good tools for development
• WP7 - “Your first smartphone”
• Easier to use than Android + iOS.
• Nothing without Nokia?
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Nokia
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• Qt is dead. Long live Qt.
• “Nokia is ready to connect the next billion.”
• Betting big on WP7
• Marketing calls
• Competitions / Deadmau5
• Device seeding
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Nokia
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Blackberry
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• Old school - Post & Faxing
• Development toolset is a mess
• Losing market share
• Co-Chief Executives step down
• Possible comeback?
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Bada
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• Samsung’s feature phone OS
• Samsung was putting some money into apps
• It’s own app store has some value
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Fragmentation
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Yeah but no but yeah but no . . . .
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Types of Fragmentation
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API Changes
Device Capabilities
Bug Fixes
Screen SizeDensities
Hardware Differences (Buttons etc.)
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Apple vs Android vs All
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Apple get users updated quickly :)
Apple is growing in device variations :|
Google struggles with OEMs :(
Nokia’s Qt :(
Blackberry . . . . Eek :(
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Form Factors
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Form Factors
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Form Factors
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Form Factors
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Amazon Kindle Fire
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Cross Platforms Tools
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Kirin JS
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Too Many Scare Stories
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The Exception
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The Real World
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• Agencies vs. In House Teams
• Agency: Ever changing projects (Good and Bad)
• In House: Improving & fruits of your labour
• Process - Agile, Prince2, Slippery Prince
• Never going to be perfect
• Iterative
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Glastonbury
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• Cross Platform iOS, Android, Qt
• Short Lived
• Google Docs + App Engine
• Strict constraints
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LastMinute.com
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• Good relationship
• Cross platform
• Early access
• Bleeding Edge
• Dead Platform
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Thank You
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Matthew Gaunt
@gauntface
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