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Developer of fake Angry Birds and Cut the Rope for Android fined 50,000 GBP
It’s likely that we won’t see a ton of fake mobile games in the Android Market (Google Play) in the future. Nope, Google won’t introduce an app review process, but developers should now be more wary, since they could end-up paying for their deeds. According to a BBC report, an unnamed Latvian developer who posted fake versions of popular games on the Android Market has been fined 50,000 GBP and told to repay 28,000 GBP to victims, marking the first of its kind fine in the mobile industry. It’s important … Read more
Dusan Belic
YoYo Games’ GameMaker: Studio allows developers to make cross-platform 2D games using HTML5
YoYo Games launched GameMaker: Studio, a new software that promises to make 2D game development easy, relying on HTML5 technology. This in turn, will allow developers to make game once and see it running on multiple platforms, including iOS and Android. Although it’s touted as a “powerful” solution, GameMaker: Studio sports a drag-and-drop IDE with a built-in games-oriented scripting language, making it suitable both for novices and seasoned game developers. Moreover, once your done with development, you are able to export the game as native iOS and Android packages, or … Read more
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Facebook to drive mobile app installs through its App Center
Facebook is hoping to drive mobile app installs via its recently launched App Center. In a dedicated post, software engineer Brent Goldman explained how this scheme will work. Before that he mentioned that Facebook is already integrated in a number of mobile apps, with 7 of the top 10 grossing iOS apps and 5 of the top 10 Android apps integrating the social network’s API(s). As a Facebook users, you will be able to get new apps from either Facebook’s mobile app or when accessing the mobile website. In addition, … Read more
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Twilio Client for Android is out; Lets developers add VoIP capabilities to their apps
Cloud communications company Twilio launched Twilio Client (SDK) for Android, making it super-easy for mobile developers to integrate VoIP capabilities into their Android apps. Among the features developers will be able to access are: Real-time presence with buddy list support – the Twilio platform will notify an app when a user is ready for voice chat so that calls are only made when users are online. App backgrounding – the SDK can receive voice calls even if the app is not the current one being used. Cross-platform interoperability – Twilio … Read more
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Jumio Mobile SDK allows developers to add credit card scanning capabilities to their apps
Jumio, which we know for their technology that turns webcams into card and ID readers, launched the Mobile SDK, allowing developers to add credit card scanning capabilities to their apps. The new Netswipe Mobile Software Development Kit is touted as a fast and easy way to implement credit card capturing into mobile apps with no extra hardware needed. At the moment, it’s available for iOS only, with the Android version developing as we speak. Aside from the SDK, Jumio is also “pumping” $5 million in scanning fees into startups which … Read more
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Wikitude now open to augmented reality game developers
Wikitude is going beyond “basic” augmented reality and is including games to the mix as part of version 7.0 of its platform. As a result, developers utilizing Wikitude’s ARchitect Engine, will be able to make AR-based games that put digital characters around player’s surrounding. And already, there are 3 titles that take advantage of this technology, including: Bubble Tap – in which players pop a series of bubbles floating around them. As you progress, the difficulty increases with longer series to pop, prompting you to physically rotate to get higher … Read more
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$5 million TapJoy Asia Fund launched to support the growth of free-to-play mobile apps in Asia
Mobile advertising and publishing platform TapJoy is launching another fund to spur development of free-to-play mobile apps. Unlike its previous similar effort which was focused on helping companies port their apps to Android, this one targets both iOS and Android developers located in Asia. The amount of TapJoy’s investment is the same though, and it’s $5 million. TapJoy on its end will provide select developers with working capital needed to get started, distribution for new user acquisition through its ad network, monetization options via TapJoy’s Mobile Value Exchange platform, consulting … Read more
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Appcelerator to add support for Blackberry 10 platform
Appcelerator announced that it is working with RIM to accelerate the creation of BlackBerry 10 applications by leveraging its mobile ecosystem. Under the deal, Appcelerator will allow its 300,000+ Titanium developers to easily make cloud-connected apps for yet another platform (in addition to iOS and Android). Appcelerator developers create native, hybrid, and HTML5 mobile web apps for a variety of devices. The company also has hundreds of integration, technology, and training partners, while its Open Mobile Marketplace provides modules to extend the Titanium platform to build, connect, test, manage and … Read more
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HTC releases source code for One X, US variant not included
Hackers rejoice … HTC has released the source code for the wildly popular One X. Yesterday, we wrote how MoDaCo noticed that the AT&T version of the HTC One X ships with a locked bootloader that isn’t unlocked by HTC’s bootloader unlock tool, a revelation that was later confirmed to The Verge by HTC. The Death Star strikes again! Well, thanks to some diligent developers and angry customers, HTC has now offered up the One X source code for several countries (including Australia, France, New Zealand, Europe, Taiwan, UK, and … Read more
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Keynote DeviceAnywhere, Sprint team-up to help developers port iDEN apps to CDMA rugged devices
Keynote DeviceAnywhere is teaming-up with Sprint to make it easy for developer members of the “Sprint Gets Rugged” program to port their iDEN apps to Sprint’s rugged line of CDMA handsets. Using the remote testing resource, mobile app testers can access real handsets on Sprint’s CDMA network via the Internet. As a result, developers can target the ruggedized device market without having to physically acquire the handsets, decreasing the overall cost of development and speeding up their time-to-market. Among the phones that will be accessible this way are the Motorola … Read more
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Bluetooth SIG launches Developer Portal
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) launched its Bluetooth Developer Portal to help developers and engineers learn the basics of Bluetooth device and application design. In other words, here you’ll find a collection of resources like training tools, forums, quick-start guides, and webinars to help you create apps using standardized Bluetooth data profiles. The mentioned webinars are especially emphasized with first one starting on April 30, providing practical training on Bluetooth application and device design and implementation. The Bluetooth Developer Portal was unveiled on the heels of last year’s launch … Read more