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Back to School Webinars
August 29-September 9
Yup – we know what it will be like in about a month. September will be right around the corner and your brain will be like mush from an overload of Netflix, the summer heat, and probably too much fresh air. Not to fear – the Back to School Webinar series is coming your way August 29 to September 9. There will be a few refresher sessions for getting started in Android and others on enhancing your apps.
Thanks to Immersion, the leader in haptic technology, for sponsoring this series. Find out more about Immersion and their MOTIV™ Development Platform for Android here.
Mark your calendars and register below to receive updates and reminders on these great webinars!
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Monday, August 29
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Android's Advances: Review and Preview While you were working on other projects, enjoying your vacation, or simply catching up on sleep, Android has maintained its momentum in terms of interest and capability. In this presentation, we will review some of the major new capabilities added to Android and its ecosystem in the past few months, plus provide a "preview of coming attractions" for what's in store for us later in 2011. Attendees will walk away with a better picture for where their Android apps can go and what they can now do. Presented by Mark Murphy.
WIP Back to School Webinars - Android's Advances: Review and Preview from WIPConnector on Vimeo.
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Monday, August 29
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Designing Haptics in Mobile Applications Haptics (touch feedback) is now available on millions of shipping Android devices. Immersion's tools for creating haptic UIs and games give developers unprecedented power to make apps that leap off of the screen and touch users. Join David Birnbaum, Immersion's senior user experience researcher, for a discussion of what makes a compelling haptic experience and how to create one for your product.
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Tuesday, August 30
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Android Honeycomb and Fragments Android devices continue to incorporate a variety of features. In this webcast, we will explore some of the unique functionality that developers should be interested in to make great apps.
Honeycomb Fragments from WIPConnector on Vimeo.
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Tuesday, August 30
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Get your application optimized for Honeycomb Android based tablets are hitting the market in full force and Honeycomb has some updates to accommodate this exciting new form factor. This webinar will get you up to speed on what it takes to get your application optimized for the Honeycomb platform and the ways you can start testing your application on a device through the Samsung Developers program. Key topics covered include an overview of the new features in Honeycomb, new UI elements and APIs and why and how you can use fragments to create a tablet friendly user experience.
WIP Back to School Webinars - Optimize Your App for Honeycomb by Samsung from WIPConnector on Vimeo.
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Wednesday, August 31
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Supporting Android Apps, Avoiding Crashes and Increasing User Retention Crittercism is the missing support infrastructure for mobile apps. We monitor crashes, handle support requests, and improve customer service. On Android these problems are further complicated by the proliferation of devices, operating systems, and app stores which make it extremely difficult to resolve bugs and respond to customer complaints. Our goal is to help developers increase their sales and ratings. The talk will discuss integration and use of Crittercism on Android, and best practices while developing apps to avoid crashes and increase user retention. All participants will be provided with early access to the company's Android library.
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Wednesday, August 31
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Getting Your App To Consumers neXva is focused on creating tools that solve the issues confronting App Developers. neXva's Developer Services make it easy for developers to connect directly with consumers. The result is that developers can take control of getting their great apps noticed and consumers can find the apps they want that are compatible with their device. neXva's Developer Services portfolio includes:
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Thursday, September 1
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App Downloads: Important, But A Poor Metric - Increasing Engagement in Your Mobile App You've built an awesome mobile application and finally made it into an app store. The first day you release it, you get a spike in downloads and your analytics show that sessions are up. Awesome. But as time passes, that graph starts to drop and all of a sudden it's three months out and you have 1% of your user base still keeping their eyeballs in the app. If you monetize through ads, you've got a problem. In this webinar we'll discuss some ways that have worked for increasing engagement and why it's an important metric to monitor.
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Thursday, September 1
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How to Make Your Android App Rock-n- Roll with Haptics How can you make your app stand out? Want users coming back for more? Make your application come to life with haptic feedback! Haptic (or touch) feedback create interactive and engaging user experiences, which translates to more enthusiastic users investing more time in your app...In this session, we will take you step-by-step through the Immersion MOTIV SDK, teaching you how to quickly and easily incorporate pre-designed haptic effects to your apps.
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Tuesday, September 6
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Creating Your Own Haptic Special Effects Use your imagination and creativity to design your own custom haptics (touch) effects! With Immersion’s MOTIV Studio tool, you can create customized touch effects to match the unique visuals of your application. In this session, we will walk you through the Studio tool, showing you how to create the maximum impact through custom haptic effects.
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Wednesday, September 7
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WebEx-enabling your Android App 3 million people around the globe use Cisco WebEx technology. And this number continues to grow each day. This interactive session is for enterprise developers looking to build and distribute transformational apps to enterprise buyers. Through instruction, live demonstration, and Q&A, developers will learn how to imbed Cisco WebEx Meeting Center into Android applications, and distribute these to Cisco customers using the Cisco Cius mobile platform. The enterprise is going mobile. Forrester Research predicts mobile users will make up 73% of the workforce in 2012. Bring even more value to the enterprise by integrating Cisco WebEx web conferencing with high quality video. Hosted by Cisco's Larry Michalewicz. |
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Wednesday, September 7
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Own the Map - DeCarta and You
You already know that adding mapping (or routing or geocoding) will make your application sexier to your users, but you don't want to give the branding to some other large company and you don't like their terms of service. Well, we are going to show you how easy it is to get your own brandable map in your application with much more developer friendly terms of service (and cheaper too). Come see live code examples and clear talk on licensing for getting mapping goodness into your mobile web, android native, or iOS native application. Your maps, your way.
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Thursday, September 8
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Android and Near-Field Communications (NFC) Near Field Communications(NFC) is a fast growing technology which enables devices to connect and communicate when they are few centimeters apart. Currently NFC has been tested for several applications like mobile wallet, ticketing , secure entry, sharing the data between the devices etc. Banks, mobile operators, phone manufacturers and several other companies are working together to bring those applications and required ecosystem to everyone. Mobile wallet will be one of the important application and it allows users to download soft payment cards, loyalty cards, gift cards, coupons etc and use them with a tap. Latest version of Android mobile OS has support for NFC and several other companies expressed the availability of NFC capability in their upcoming version of software and devices.
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Thursday, September 8
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Privacy and You: Reaching Your Customers the Right Way presented by Neustar
Privacy. It's top of mind for all businesses as well as consumers. "how do I effectively reach my customers and engage them without alienating them?" and how do I manage which one's want to be contacted? With lawsuits coming frequently, your strategy needs to be on point or you can put your entire business at risk. Join Neustar as we discuss privacy best practices and solutions to engage your users effectively the right way.
Neustar connects the mobile marketplace through one provider, one agreement, one connection. With our superior cloud based solution, Neustar can fully manage your privacy requirements and fully integrate into your marketing efforts easily and effectively with location, messaging, and more. Neustar does more than just expose API’s. We take the complexity out of working with multiple API’s and network operators by unifying them with the right toolsets, policies and business logic developers need. Allowing you to focus on things that count: your product.
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Friday, September 9
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Building Location-Based Apps and Services with NAVBuilder Inside Learn how to develop and monetize new LBS apps or enhance your existing apps with free NAVBuilder inside (NBI) APIs and toolkits for location, local search, maps, directions, mobile coupons, traffic, weather, gas prices, movies & local events listings, geo-coding, and GPS Navigation on Android, iPhone, RIM, BREW, and Windows. Hosted by Kris Kolodziej, Associate Director – LBS, Verizon Wireless. |
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