Mobile Application Development

Mobile Application Development Presentation reference links and useful materials to get you started.

Average number of installed apps on smartphone, number of actively used (last 30 days) and number of paid apps in Australia, according to Google's Our Mobile Planet

https://think.withgoogle.com/mobileplanet/en/graph/?country=au&category=KEYACT&subcategory=NUMAPPS&topic=Q24X&stat=Q24X_1&stat=Q24X_2&stat=Q24X_3&wave=2013&age=all&gender=all&chart_type=bar&active=stat

Number of apps available in App Stores. According to Statista as of July 2014

http://www.statista.com/statistics/276623/number-of-apps-available-in-leading-app-stores/

Most popular Apple App Store Categories as of January 2015


http://www.statista.com/statistics/270291/popular-categories-in-the-app-store/

Time spent per month according to Nielsen

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/01/an-upper-limit-for-apps-new-data-suggests-consumers-only-use-around-two-dozen-apps-per-month/ 

iOS Development Ecosystem

• XCode
  https://developer.apple.com/xcode/
  
• Cocoa Touch Framework
  https://developer.apple.com/technologies/ios/cocoa-touch.html
  
• Swift
  https://developer.apple.com/swift/
  
• Objective-C
  https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ProgrammingWithObjectiveC/Introduction/Introduction.html
  
• C / C++
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility_of_C_and_C%2B%2B
  

Android Development Ecosystem

• Google Developer Account
  https://play.google.com/apps/publish/signup/
  
• Android Studio
  https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
  
• Eclipse
  https://www.eclipse.org/
  
• Java
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_%28programming_language%29
  
• Android SDK
  http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
  
• Android NDK
  https://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html
  

Windows Mobile Development Ecosystem

• Microsoft Store Marketplace
  http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/
• Microsoft Visual Studio
  https://dev.windows.com/en-us/develop

Cross-platform & Hybrid Development Ecosystem

• Apache Cordova
  http://cordova.apache.org/
  
• Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42675
  
• Adobe PhoneGap
  http://phonegap.com/
  
• Ionic
  http://ionicframework.com/
  
• Adobe PhoneGap Build Cloud
  https://build.phonegap.com/
  
• MS Visual Studio Community Edition (Free)
  https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/vs2013-community-vs.aspx
  
• TypeScript
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TypeScript
  

Game Development Ecosystem

• Unity
  http://unity3d.com/unity
  
• Cocos2d-x
  http://www.cocos2d-x.org
  
• Cocos2d-js
  http://www.cocos2d-x.org/products#cocos2dx-js
  
• Marmalade
  https://www.madewithmarmalade.com/products/marmalade-sdk
  
• App Game Kit
  http://www.appgamekit.com/
  
• GameMaker: Studio
  https://www.yoyogames.com/studio/
  
• HTML Canvas
  http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_canvas.asp
  

Shoot me kangaroo down

About code re-use and inventing wheel in 2015.
http://www.snopes.com/humor/nonsense/kangaroo.asp

Sales & Analytics

• Google Analytics
  https://developers.google.com/analytics/solutions/mobile
  
• Google AdMob
  http://www.google.com/admob/

Augmented Reality - something to work on

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality