Ann Arbor

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 the major differences between the two platforms?  Are you familiar with one platform, but not the other?  Have any other development related questions about one or both of the platforms?  These and many other questions will be answered at the next Mobile Monday Ann …

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 like to understand how to utilize it better. Presentation Description: With the way the cellular industry has evolved in the last few years just about everything you could want to do with your mobile device has become possible. We are not just talking about …

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 mark almost every time.  The cost of the failure to thrill end users is steep:  Products that never see the light of day, are installed but never get used, or are used every day but hated by everyone who touches them.  Most product design failures …

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 his app that acts as an aid for people taking multiple medications. Featured Presenters: Keith Bourne –  Keith is Senior Mobile Strategist at Arbormoon Software, Inc. With his mobile experiences dating back to the 90’s, Keith is one of the …

Featured App Presentation : FetchnotesPresenters: 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 once it’s down.  Receiving rave reviews in TechCrunch,The Next Web, Lifehacker, Fetchnotes has grown its user base to over 15,000 since its April 13 launch. The mobile version of the app is available on both the iOS and Android platforms. Main Presentation : Titanium For App Development …

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 devices and touch screens. Anthony’s Bio: Anthony leads the API development for flipfrog.  His past spans from the development of Dominos.com to organizing WordCamp Detroit, a weekend event around WordPress.  Anthony is a strong advocate of open source, responsive web design, and web apps. Featured …

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 followed them at work, at home, in their cars, and at play, in a myriad of locations, from offices to retail stores to hair salons to bars – all observing and capturing their mobile phone activities.  Extensive follow-up interviews with each respondent provide clarity and …

Summary: This talk will introduce the audience to the approaches (progressive, streaming, adaptive streaming) available to stream video content to your mobile platform. It will discuss the requirements for supporting video content within your native and web application including the protocols, encodings and media formats. An overview of the deployment options including the various Content Distribution Networks (CDNs)  and Video Delivery Platforms will be provided. Bonus Presentation!  The Indy Development Firm Experience and Apple Developers Conference – We will also be joined by Michael Antaran of Marvel Apps, who will give us the story of building a successful independent iPhone app company. …

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)
•  NDK and Dalvik JVM discussion
•  App signing requirements and deploying to the market
•  Ice Cream Sandwich and the Future of Android