App Development Apps

There are over half a million apps on the App Store. That's great for consumers, except for sifting through the bad ones, but for developers it's creating fierce competition. Now, it's not enough to just launch an app and hope it does well.

Tagged: app monetization, development platform, HTML5 content, in-app purchases, in-app revenue, virtual goods

Until recently, the only way to earn an MDICD credential was to go through the entire training program. Now qualified developers can take a practical exam to obtain the certification. The Information Technology industry thrives on certifications.

Tagged: app-building skills, certification program

The iPad Publisher is an easy and affordable way to distribute and sell publications to the millions of iPad users worldwide. The iPad is a blockbuster success that has changed the way that millions of people worldwide consume content.

Tagged: Apple Newsstand, digital magazine, publishing industry, publishing on the iPad

Chupa, a leading marketplace for buying and selling source code and components for Mobile Development, is giving away ten thousand dollars in prizes in the Chupa 10K Developer Competition.

Tagged: developer competition

By making the iPhone app free and streamlining the customization process, iGivings helps churches and ministries achieve their mobile goals quickly and painlessly.

How to enter a GPS location when building an app. New GPS notifications feature from iBuildapp lets anyone build an app that can send special offers to customers based on their location. iBuildApp recently added mobile coupons for businesses to their free-to-build apps.

APPSPIRE.me, a mobile app marketing company based in Austin, Texas, launched today to offer its services to app developers and marketing agencies worldwide. APPSPIRE.

PDFTron Systems Incorporated, a global provider of industry-leading, high-performance electronic document technology, today unveiled the availability of PDFTron’s Mobile PDF SDK for Android™ and iOS.

Collectrium helps art galleries manage their inventory using mobile devices from the iPad, iPhone, or iCloud. With 400 million Internet users connecting to the Web through mobile devices rather than computers by 2014, the world is going mobile.

Tagged: Apple's iCloud, art app, art gallery, Bloomberg, cloud computing, manage inventory

Distimo has announced a free cross-platform, app store monitoring and analytics tool that offers a variety of deep benchmarking capabilities to help developers maximize their app store revenues across eight different distribution points to extend the global geographic reach of their apps.

A free update released today for QuarkXPress 9 features App Studio, an addition which allows designers to create branded apps for the iPad, distribute applications through the Apple App Store, and also design and publish content for in-app purchases.

Could you use $10,000? Then you need to act fast and register for Rhomobile’s Mobile Application Development Challenge. The contest promotes the company's Rhodes framework, which enables devs to write apps once using HTML templates and run on the iPhone, BlackBerry  and other top smartphones.

The iPhone and iPod touch swept the second annual Independent Games Festival Mobile at the Games Developer Conference, which is currently underway in San Francisco. Subatomic Studios' tower defense title Fieldrunners nabbed the top award for best game overall.

Tagged: Games Developer Conference

Ifbyphone, a developer of voice broadcast and conference calling apps, is promoting what it calls a "stimulus package" for iPhone developers. The company will award an unspecified number of developers $1,000 apiece for the most innovative Ifbyphone-to–iPhone mashups.

Tagged: contest for developers

Apple released information about the iPhone Developer University program, a free program that is available to higher education institutions throughout the country.