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Developers continue to be in hot demand as we enter 2012 with many events eager to cater to them - so many events it is becoming much harder to choose which to attend.  I see operators/carriers doing more and more to attract developers to their SDKs and APIs.  A couple of years ago, only a few were hosting developer events; now all are hosting at least one per year with many additional hackathons, seminars and workshops.

Much more emphasis will be placed on how developers can make money with their applications.  More events with this focus will be forthcoming in 2012 and beyond.  All conferences will include it as one of their conference streams if they are not dedicated the whole conference to it.  Other prominent areas include: Mobile Payments, NFC and Social Media and anything to do with Apps.

Mobile World Congress will continue to attract large numbers of mobile ecosystem members including developers.  GSMA really hit a home run with App Planet at MWC in 2010 and will...

The first ever AnDevCon is on its last day here in San Mateo. With an apparent 700+ attendees all coming to join in the Android fray the 2nd AnDevCon has already been scheduled for Nov 7-9, 2011 (registration starts March 21st). There were many different sessions from "Android 101" (for beginners like myself) to very specific/technical workshops like "Developing Media Applications - Taking advantage of camera hardware".

Generally I've heard from experienced java developers that Android is easier to develop for then iOS, what I have discovered at this event that it is not necessarily the case. (Well it is, but let me explain). I look at Android development at the same way I would look at snowboarding. It's difficult to to get your feet set, but once you have the basics down it becomes a lot smoother. This is of course also dependant on your coding background.

In the session, Android 101, the big thing that came out subtly was the distaste for Eclipse and the difficulty of...

There are some great Developer event options coming up in the next few weeks in the USA, Canada and Europe.  At WIP, we partner with many of these event.  You can find out more about these and others in our Mobile Community Calendar where we track events taking place all over the world.

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WaveGuide™Seminars: Introduction to Nokia Platforms and OVI Services hosted by Wavefront and DFAIT are taking place in several Canadian cities in early February.  Feb.  1...