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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…