"BlueStacks' cross-platform innovation bridges the Android and x86 application ecosystems, providing new opportunities for developers and better experiences for users, " said Manju Hegde, corporate vice president, Heterogeneous Applications and Developer Solutions at AMD.
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Add to this that the BlackBerry developer community has been writing applications for serious business users for a very long time while both the Apple and Android developer communities, by and large, are completely focused on consumer applications such as games, access to social networking sites, and video and audio downloading and playback.
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Turning Facebook into a place where any developer could create applications for the community has super-charged the growth of the service ever since.
In September 2010, Credits passed a milestone when it became the exclusive payment method for most of the games created by Zynga, the No. 1 developer of Facebook applications.
Google wanted to spark developer interest in writing applications even before Android-ready phones existed.
Nic Tunney, a Maryland-based developer of Rich Internet applications, blogged twice about the PlayBook in the past week.
Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) wanted to spark developer interest in writing applications even before Android-ready phones existed.
On Wednesday, Microsoft announced plans to acquire media-streams.com, a privately held Swiss software developer, which makes communications applications based on Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology.
On Wednesday, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) announced plans to acquire media-streams.com, a privately held Swiss software developer, which makes communications applications based on Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology.
It also announced it would open its Mobile Developer Platform to third-party applications, mirroring an earlier announcement from Google.
The San Francisco-based developer has some of the most popular applications on Facebook, but one of them violated user privacy.
Demerjian goes on to say that even though Microsoft is willing to pay developers to port applications for Windows 8, the sentiment in the developer community is very negative.
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Help users through the discovery process to find new applications at every opportunity, and continue with the strong developer outreach program.
Businesses can also tap into the growing Android developer community that is building business-class productivity applications with appropriate IT controls.
The bulk of the keynote address was taken up by developers showing off applications they'd built for the iPhone using a software developer kit Apple introduced in March.
The risks of waiting for everything to be perfect are even higher, though, because you can find yourself close to launch without enough of a developer community to assure that users will have the applications they need to find your product engaging and helpful.
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And even if Mac OS X is installed, developer should spend time to support A5 on Universal Binary Applications.
All those applications that were written with two digit year fields, that every developer thought would be long gone before the year 2000.
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This of course has significant implications for the developer community as they consider the market potential in developing applications for different mobile platforms.
MySpace plans to follow suit Feb. 5, with the launch of the MySpace Developer Platform, which will allow outside developers to create applications that hook into the MySpace social network.
Go to developer.ubuntu.com to download the SDK to develop applications for Ubuntu.
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The best part of the developer program is that it promises to keep cranking out new applications for the old iPhone for years to come.
"As a mobile software developer and middleware vendor, Resco customers are enabled to use our products to develop MonoTouch, and now Mono for Android applications for Android and Apple devices, " said Michal Sartoris, senior developer at Resco.
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At the Virtual Goods Summit in October, Liu returned with news that Facebook Credits had opened its doors to more Facebook app developer partnerships, meaning further expansion of Credits usage in the myriad applications that are accessed via the Facebook Platform.
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As it stands, both Windows 8 apps and traditional applications may be submitted for inclusion in the Windows Store, however in the case of applications for the desktop environment, purchasers will be re-routed to individual developer sites to make their purchase and grab the download.
Our developer teams are continuing to generate momentum to bring a wealth of applications to BlackBerry 10, our enterprise teams have started to present BlackBerry 10 devices and services to our business customers, and our engineers are fully mobilized to ensure that BlackBerry 10 launches flawlessly in the first quarter of 2013.
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As a developer I'm just getting an idea of how to write helpful applications for this new form of intimate information access.
If you're a software developer, we hope you'll take a look at the data and applications that we've released.
One project currently in development focuses on ways to eliminate developer frustration with the wide range of business and technical relationships required to create applications.
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As of now, the Ubuntu touch dev preview contains the shell, core applications, WiFi networking, support for front- and rear-facing cameras and Android Developer Bridge tool connectivity.
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