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As WIP is the co-organizer of Droidcon London to take place on the 6-7 of October, we'll be sharing a few blog from Droidcon to give you a flavour of what will happen! We hope to see you there!

This is the second installment of our Speaker Friday where every Friday we'll be announcing new speakers at Droidcon.

This week we're keeping with the holiday mood with our  "Play Hard"  theme!! Announcing 2 Android games developers!

Yosi Taguri 

The maker of the game Pah! 

Haven't heard of it?  That is quite surprising, there is an entire (noisy) youtube channel dedicated to the game ! 350,000 downloads on iPhone and just arrived on Android Market (or any Andoid appstore you use!) 

Yosi will be talking about Pah! (obviously) and how he's been using Bluevia's Android SDK to find new innovative ways to interact with users and generate revenues. He'll also touch on porting from iPhone to Android and succeeding in the mobile games business!

Find out more on Yosi

Mustafa K....

The July edition of the WIP App(lication) Store Report is out, and this month, we take a look at what's changed -- and what hasn't -- from the days when operator content decks dominated mobile content distribution. Download the full PDF for a printable version of our App(lication) Store Catalog, including the analysis below.

Editor’s Note: Just after last month’s Report was published, we here at WIP received a letter from Apple’s lawyers. Apple has trademarked, or has filed for trademarks for, the term “app store” in the US, Canada and several other countries. Based on its US trademark -- which is being challenged by Amazon, Microsoft and several other companies -- Apple has demanded that we cease and desist calling this report the “App Store Report” because it “improperly suggests to U.S. consumers that numerous companies offer an APP STORE mobile download service”, not just Apple.

This is why you’ll notice this edition of the report is title the “App(lication) Store Report”,...

One of the great apps created at the Muther! was Yosun Chang's Tap Shake Messenger. It's essentially a messaging client that translates SMS messages into "haptic Braille", allowing visually impaired people a way to read use messages apart from speech-to-text or text-to-speech. I was really impressed by its utility and clever use of technology -- and so were the judges, as Yosun took home several prizes! I followed up with her this week to find out a little bit more about her app and what else she's working on.

WIP: Hi Yosun, tell us a little bit about yourself.

Yosun Chang: So, I grew up in the SF Bay Area, went away for a while, then came back again. My background is in theoretical physics. My research interests are currently a bit far from that -- mostly in mobile apps, particularly, augmented reality, procedural graphics, AI, as well as immersive virtual simulations. I also explore new UX ideas design that fully utilize unique mobile device capabilities -- beyond just...

We've finally caught our breath after the Muther! of all Hackathons a couple of weeks ago in Mountain View. The event was a huge success, thanks to the 300+ attendees who showed up and all of our excellent sponsors! Almost 50 apps were presented on Saturday, and I was blown away by what the developers were able to accomplish in just 24 hours. The creativity shown, as well as the polish on the apps, was amazing.

I wasn't sure what to expect -- or what I'd gotten myself into -- with an all-night event with so many people. But I was impressed by the spirit of all the participants, the supportive, fun and focused atmosphere, and also the work of all the sponsors and the WIP team to pull it off! We had a wide range of attendees, from people just getting started in mobile development to very experienced and polished devs, and I think that we were able to create a place where they all could take something away from the event.

I really enjoyed sitting through the pitches and being...