mobile in a nutshell

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

matt@gauntface.co.uk

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