Blockchain gaming organization partners with Crypto Oasis
Thursday, April 28, 2022 by Richard Harris
GamesCoin Group is a German blockchain gaming organization that has created an ecosystem for a gaming world that is more immersive and boundary-blurring than ever. Its partnership with Crypto Oasis is game-changing and exciting for the Middle Eastern crypto market because blockchain is restructuring the gaming industry, and GamesCoin Group is leading this revolution.
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Smart mobile marketing during the holidays
Tuesday, November 21, 2017 by Itamar Benedy
The holiday season is often glorified as the “App Developers’ days”, with dream conditions to send people to the app store and download new apps. The numbers don’t lie. 2016 was the best year yet for apps, with over half a million dollars being spend on mobile apps over the holiday - a 52% increase from the year prior (Sensor Tower). This holiday bump can be attributed ...
The mobile gaming industry meets blockchain
Friday, November 17, 2017 by Richard Harris
Dragonfly and DECENT have come together to bring blockchain to the gaming industry. Together, they are set to tackle some common challenges by creating an innovative digital marketplace solution. The mobile gaming industry is evolving rapidly Dragonfly has called on DECENT to help develop a new and fully integrated blockchain-based marketplace.Like the sound of a block...
Gamemaker 2 Studio now with Amazon app store support
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
GameMaker Studio 2 from YoYo Games has signed an agreement with Amazon to enable full support of the development and publishing of games on Amazon’s Appstore. GameMaker Studio 2 allows both experienced and novice videogame developers to create the games they imagine. Pushing the engine to support Amazon’s Appstore continues to open the toolset to anyone interested in ga...
Newzoo offers insight into the app market with new survey report
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 by Richard Harris
Global market intelligence firm Newzoo has announced the release of its first Global Mobile Market Report, a unique publication on the global mobile ecosystem, including global app revenues and forecasts, device brand market share, smartphone penetration, and consumer profiling.
According to the report, global app revenues will reach $44.8 billion in 2016...
Amazon Will Showcase How Game Developers Can Reach New Customers with Twitch at GDC
Monday, February 23, 2015 by Richard Harris
At GDC Amazon Will Showcase How Game Developers Can Reach New Customers with TwitchAmazon is diving deep into the GDC experience as it showcases its Twitch platform, Amazon Mobile Ads API, AWS, and the Amazon App Store. This year’s GDC will provide Amazon with a big opportunity to promote the Twitch live video-game-streaming service as an opportunity for game developers...
Marmalade to Offer Developers $80,000 in Prizes for Apps Deployed to the Amazon Appstore
Monday, July 21, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Marmalade Technologies is hosting a new weekly promotion with a total prize value of over $80,000. To enter the contest developers can use any Marmalade license, including the free license, to deploy to the Amazon Appstore and enter into the weekly prize draw to win Marmalade and Amazon prizes.Every Marmalade app that is successfully submitted to the Amazon Ap...
Amazon Fire Phone and Kindle Fire Now Supports Urban Airship’s Mobile Push and In App Messaging
Thursday, July 10, 2014 by Richard Harris
One measure of the success of an app market is its ability to get third party providers to make available support products and services for developers who create apps for that platform. That’s one of the problems BlackBerry encountered as the vast majority of mobile industry companies took a wait and see approach, resulting in limited access to the app developers tools ...
Develop Apps for Any Device and Any Platform With AppMethod's New Platform
Saturday, June 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
Embarcadero has introduced its latest release of Appmethod which allows developers to use C++ to create apps for Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac OS X. This release of Appmethod now includes a "Free Forever" subscription plan that C++ developers can use to create Android apps to be published on any public app store (e.g., Amazon App Store and Google Play). ...
Developers Have a Chance to Increase Amazon App Revenues with New Free Coin Promotion in France, Spain, and Italy
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 by Richard Harris
Last year, Amazon launched Amazon Coins in the US, UK, and Germany. And now, Amazon Coins are available to even more customers in Europe as they are expanding the program to France, Spain, and Italy. With all the free coins out there, developers who have apps that appeal to this user base could see an uptick in revenues.Kindle Fire owners in these countries will receive...
Google Play Is Not Only Android App Store Available for Mobile Developers
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 by Richard Harris
Would you like to take a guess on how many third party app stores are available for Android? If you guessed more than 30 you would be correct. How do we know?A recent Airpush team blog post lists 38 third party Android app stores. Some you will have heard of, such as the Amazon app store, some may not be so recognizable, such as HiAPK. And its not the complete...
Amazon’s Developer Promotions Console (DPC) Now Offers Discounting Opportunities Across Markets to Drive App Promotions
Monday, May 5, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Amazon’s Developer Promotions Console (DPC) now provides the ability to specify when a developer can discount an app or in-app items.The DPC provides the ability to discount the list price of apps and in-app items to promote an update, take advantage of a holiday or special event, or conduct price elasticity tests. Developers can specify in the DPC when and where these ...
Single Login for Amazon Kindle Fire Will be a Soon for App Developers
Thursday, April 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
No more specific user login credentials! Developers will definitely appreciate this announcement by Amazon that their apps and games that use Login with Amazon on Kindle Fire devices will no longer need to ask users to sign in each time the app is run. Instead, the first time the app is run Login with Amazon will automatically use the account registered to the Kind...
New Marmalade Juice Recompiles iOS Projects Natively for Android
Friday, March 21, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Marmalade has announced the release of Marmalade Juice which recompiles iOS projects natively for Android. The tool comes as standard with all Marmalade licenses including Community.Marmalade Juice lets developers using Xcode, Objective-C and all the iOS APIs to deploy to Android including the Google Play or Amazon App Store. The iOS app will be recompiled to ...
Amazon App Developers Say the New Developer Select Program Works
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
Amazon launched their ADS program a few months ago to try and help developers get noticed in their app store. The results are on and the latest stats from Amazon’s Appstore Developer Select program shows it's helped increase app discovery across the board, leading to more downloads and higher conversion rates since its launch last year for many app developers.Spec...
Amazon Appstore Monthly Round up: January 2014
Monday, February 10, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Amazon Appstore had a busy start to the New Year, adding several new services and features to its growing developer ecosystem. Below are some of the latest highlights and case studies gathered so far this year. · A new and improved developer portal is now available for Amazon Appstore, helping devel...
Target Credit Card Breach, What Could it Mean for App Markets
Monday, January 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Consumers have been stung, and stung hard by the Target credit card breach. I was at a dinner party last night and every person had either been personally affected or had a close family member or friend who was.The Target breach has brought about an immediate, enhanced, and broad based awareness of the fragility of a consumer’s financial and personal information. T...
Amazon Shakes Up Developer Site: Offers New Dedicated Pages for Gaming and HTML5 App Developers
Monday, January 13, 2014 by Richard Harris
Amazon just can’t leave things alone announcing a number of updates to its Developer Portal. So what have they done?Streamlined App SubmissionThey’ve made it easier to check an existing Android .apk for compatibility with the Amazon Appstore. Just drag your .apk to the updated testing widget on the Home page and get results in seconds. If your app is ready to go (a...
Amazon Provides App Developers New Monetization Opportunities with Changes to Amazon Device Messaging (ADM)
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 by Richard Harris
At its simplest, the current app markets concept provides a platform for developers to write applications and market them directly to consumers. In reality, monetizing apps in a cluttered marketplace has become increasingly difficult. So the owners of app markets (Google, Apple, Amazon, etc.) who do the best job of greasing the wheels for developers will ultimately garn...
App Development Industry 2013: Winners and Losers (And Somewhere in Between)
Sunday, December 29, 2013 by Richard Harris
One of the reasons we launched App Developer Magazine was to help bring some clarity to the big picture of the mobile industry as it relates to app development. And while we feel that we have provided many valuable insights in our first year of publishing, it’s been a lot to wrap our heads around and we plan on doing a better job in 2014. So looking at the big pic...
Amazon App Store Visualized in a Pizza!
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 by Richard Harris
The Amazon Appstore continues to see tremendous growth and is now offering more than 100,000 apps as a result of a growth of 95 percent in app submissions. This momentum would not be possible without the many developers who build apps and games for folks using Kindle Fire and other Android devices. We admit the ecosystem is a bit complex, but really….it’s kind of like a...
UC Web Leads HTML5 Charge in China
Friday, October 25, 2013 by Richard Harris
UC Web, one of the top open mobile browsers in China, has announced that Amazon is launching an app on its browser’s open platform, which acts like a de facto operating system.
As reported in the Pando Times by Hamish McKenzie, users will be able to open the Amazon “light app” and shop on the site just as they would if they were using a native app, or visiting the web...
Amazon “App Store Developer Select Program” Recruits HD Optimized Apps
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Want 500,000 free mobile ad impressions? Amazon is offering just that as it continues its push to recruit app developers with its recently announced Appstore Developer Select program.
Developers who submit qualifying apps receive enhanced services including 500,000 free mobile ad impressions across the Amazon Mobile Ad Network, participation in the Amazon Coins Reward...
New iPhone and iOS Release Shakes Up App Rankings According to Distimo Report
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Distimo’s latest report, Top Global Apps – September 2013, highlights the top free, paid, and grossing apps for the Apple App Store, Google Play, and the Amazon Appstore. The analysis is based on data covering the full month of September 2013 on a globally aggregated level and is obtained from Distimo’s proprietary AppIQ data program.
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Weekly Roundup: Marmalade and Tizen, BlackBerry Developers, New School Monetization, Hyro, 2014 GDC, VLC, Rust, Opera Mobile, and iOS7 Sickness
Saturday, September 28, 2013 by Richard Harris
Top Stories for the week of 9/28/2013iOS 7 You are Making Me Sick. Really?In a recent article I came across, there are reports coming in that iOS 7 with it's warping, parallax, and other on UI screen visual effects, are making some people nauseous enough to actually throw up! Symptoms like vertigo, nausea, headaches, dizziness and more are all being reported.Initia...
Amazon App Developers Can Fire Up Android and Web Apps With Kindle Fire HDX Powered By OS 3.0 Mojito
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Amazon has officially launched its new Kindle Fire HDX featuring a new 7-inch or 8.9-inch HDX display, quad-core 2.2 GHz processor with 3x the processing power, twice the memory of the previous model, 11 hours of battery life, and dual stereo speakers with Dolby Digital Plus audio.
From a consumer standpoint, probably the most innovative aspect of the new device is the...
Distimo Reports Strong Movement in App Markets: Disney’s “Where’s My Water 2” App Rockets to Top of Apple App Store
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
It was an interesting week in the app markets according to Distimo’s Top Noteworthy Apps, Week 37 report of the most notable new apps and movements in the app stores.
Each week Distimo’ provides an overview of the top performing apps based on relative growth and absolute achievements in downloads or revenues on a global level. Distimo’s AppIQ is the engine behind the d...
Amazon Launches It's Own Mobile Ads API
Sunday, July 28, 2013 by Richard Harris
Amazon announced the general availability of the Amazon Mobile Ads API which they say gives developers the ability to earn high eCPM by monetizing their app with mobile ads from the Amazon Mobile Ad Network.Amazon says it's eCPM has increased 30% since the beta launch in March, and early adopters such as Games2Win are reporting that the Amazon Mobile Ads API h...
App Annie Now Supports Amazon Store Stats
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 by Richard Harris
As the Amazon Appstore picks up momentum, App Annie wants to help you track your app stats and stay up-to-date with what’s happening on this fast-growing store.Analytics: Track your Amazon Appstore appsIf you use App Annie Analytics for your iOS and Google Play apps - you can now add your Amazon apps to your dashboard. It’s got all the same Analytics features you know a...
What is an App Developer
Monday, January 7, 2013 by Richard Harris
While the mobile industry continues to grow, it's becoming increasingly obvious that some definitions of who is, and what is, have been lost. Being a mobile app developer myself I thought I would stand back and look at the shadow I cast so as to define exactly what it is I am. There is no way I could completely cover every aspect of my job or mobile app programming in g...