The Apps World Africa developers workshop will be the place for developers based in Africa and internationally to focus on the issues of dealing with development of apps across different platforms and apps stores. Looking at SMS apps for basic handsets to featurephone apps to latest smartphone innovations; technical presentations from leading developers, handsets and apps stores will cover a myriad of opportunities and challenges faced when developing apps.
• Cutting edge user interface design, developers sharing best practice
• Tackling a multitude of api’s and standards
• Creating innovative and usable applications across multiple platforms
• Examining various system testing methodologies, quality control, debugging,
• Preparing your app to be as future proof as possible, examining user feedback, and bug fixes.
• Building useful and accurate location based apps
• Key tips and tricks to developing killer apps
Free to attend developers workshops include:
Wednesday 1st June 9.45-11.15
Providing the latest in android app development, from beginner basics and understanding the SDK, to introducing a
range of partners and their developers guides.
- The android frameowrk and API
- Development and debugging tools
- Preparing for application deployment
- Preferred technique for writing applications that perform efficiently
- Troubleshooting apps
- Implementation advice
- Improvving App performance & user experience
- Addressing security concerns
Wednesday 1st June 13.30 - 16.00 - Nokia Developer's Track
A cross platform framework that creates huge opportunities for future Symbian and MeeGo smartphones.
A robust, tried and tested application development framework that has delivered thousands of use-cases across desktop,
mobile and embedded operating systems. A greatly reduced development effort through intuitive APIs, as well as 70%
reduction in lines of code.
A framework that complies your code to native, and will not slow it down through runtime.
Thursday 2nd June 09.00 - 11.00 - Developing applications for the BlackBerry® platform
Michael Weitzel, Senior Application Development Consultant for RIM South Africa, will lead a master class on developing applications for the BlackBerry® platform.
The masterclass will include a technical overview of the platform, web and Java® development environments, tools provided to the BlackBerry developer community and how to get started. Michael will also talk about the future of developing apps on the BlackBerry platform – for the much anticipated BlackBerry® PlayBook, and beyond!
Thursday 2nd June 14.00 - 16.00 - iOS & Multi-Platform Apps
Technologies to aid development for multiple mobile advices: Using a DSL (domain specific languages) to develope both for
Android (Java) and iOS (Objective-C) from a single source integrating Mobile apps with RESTful web services and databases using a NO-SOL technology like CouchDB.
