We are partnering with the Google Developer Group Ann Arbor Android to bring you the popular Google I/O conference right here in Ann Arbor via live stream. Please note that this special event will be at a different venue than our regular Mobile Monday meetings! But it is just down the street and around the corner, [...]

In March we covered In-App Purchase on Android. In May, Samir Tout of EMU will cover it on the iOS side. Presentation Overview: In early 2011, Samir released an educational app (iLearn Languages) that teaches people the alphabets of multiple languages, along with examples, games, & quizzes. In Mid-2012, Samir released an indie shoot’em up [...]

Microsoft has made significant contributions to mobile over the past couple decades. In the most recent year though, their mobile efforts have taken on a whole new life with a number of innovative initiatives focused specifically on the mobile market. The impact of these efforts could be far reaching given their longtime strong position in [...]

Interested in launching and monetizing an Android app or have an existing mobile app that you would like to monetize? Join us to learn more about In-app purchasing and monetizing your Android app. Discover what In-app purchasing is, advantages and disadvantages, types of in-app purchases, and a high level description of how to implement it. [...]

Join us as representatives for iOS and Android battle it out for platform supremacy! No, just kidding, this will be a friendly panel discussion on the advantages, disadvantages, challenges, and other topics surrounding developing for iOS and Android.  Interested in launching a mobile app, but don’t know which platform to start on?  Just want to know [...]

Mike Horning and Jason Tracey of the Wireless Zone and 2020 Communications will bring Android devices to play with and provide an overview of how to get the most of the Android platform as a business user. PLEASE NOTE: This is not a development presentation, this is for anyone that has an Android device and would [...]

The Business Value of Joy:  High-Tech Anthropology® and User Experience Design at Menlo Innovations Welcome to Joy!  For those in the software industry, there is only one tangible, satisfying, and profitable definition of joy:  software that is widely adopted and enjoyably used by the people for whom it was intended. The software industry misses this [...]

Mobile Monday Ann Arbor Presentation Description: Keith Bourne of Arbormoon Software, Elaina Farnsworth of Mobile Comply, and Brian McCormick of FlockTAG are teaming up to talk about how mobile can be used strategically to make a difference across your entire organization, with a focus on how it can help local businesses. Featured App: PillPouch - Matt Sitek of PillPouch will present [...]

Featured App Presentation : Fetchnotes Presenters: Mike Marsh , Alex Horak and others from the FetchNotes team. Fetchnotes is a simple, easy to use, and available everywhere note-taking application that aims to solve two growing problems – first, how to handle all of the information we encounter everyday, and second, what to do with all of that stuff [...]

Featured App: Flipfrog Anthony Montalbano will present Flipfrog, a web app that synchronizes with your Google Calendar, Eventbrite, Meetup, and Facebook accounts to simplify your life scattered across many services.  Unique to flipfrog is the forever scrolling timeline of your calendars.  Even though flipfrog is purely a webapp, we have a strong emphasis on mobile [...]

Paul Jacobs, Vice President/General Manager of jacAPPS, will discuss a groundbreaking research project conducted by their parent company, Jacobs Media. Jacobs implemented their ethnographic research methodology to identify where mobile is moving as a platform. They conducted extensive interviews with 18 smartphone owners across the United States. Capturing their mobile phone usage and activities on video, they [...]

Update: Blackberry has been nice enough to sponsor the December meeting and pay for a nice spread of gourmet sandwiches and pizza from Giardino’s! As part of their sponsorship, Blackberry will be giving away a Blackberry Playbook to one lucky attendee of this event! Please note the different venue for this event – it is just across the [...]

Mobile Monday Ann Arbor Get ready for a whirlwind tour of Android native application development.  The items on the agenda include:  Intro / What is Android / How it came to be  Requirements / Specs / Device history / Version differences  Setting up and installing Eclipse / SDK / google api’s / NDK  Writing your first Android app (Hello, world! example) [...]

PLEASE NOTE!  This MoMo is on a Wednesday (due to Labor [...]

Domino’s pizza, the tech leaders of the pizza industry, will be bringing several developers from their eCommerce team, their new iPhone app, and some pretty tasty pizza to the July Mobile Monday Ann Arbor. If you haven’t heard the story of the online ordering service that Domino’s has built, then you are in for a treat. This [...]

350,000 apps in the App Store and counting… It may not be surprising, but competition is a little fierce out there these days in App land. But there are some ways to break through the noise. Come learn how at the next Mobile Monday Ann Arbor. Register Here Agenda: * 6:15 – Networking * 6:30 – [...]

On top of the great presentation Tom will be giving on May 2 about visual design, we are also going to provide a quick intro to Balsamiq. Balsamiq goes well with many of the recipes that Tom has in his app, but that has nothing to do with why we are talking about it.  It is [...]