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London Android User Group: The new Gradle based Android Build System

The London Android User Group will present and demo the new Gradle based Build System for the Android SDK.

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Date: 12 March 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Matthew Baxter-Reynolds' PhoneGap/Apache Cordova End-to-end

If you are an Android or iOS developer, and you would like to learn to develop native applications or “native like” web applications for a variety of mobile platforms –- both phones and tablets –- using a cross- platform framework, then this course is for you!

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Date: 19 November 2012
Location: MWB Business Exchange, UK

Introduction to Android for Busy Coders

•Two-day Android training course for Busy Coders wanting a firm foundation in Android development. •Learn the basics of getting Android applications and user interfaces up and running •Authored by Mark Murphy, founder of CommonsWare and keynote speaker at Droidcon 2012 Want to find out more? http://bit.ly/IntroAndroid

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Date: 12 November 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Advanced Android for Busy Coders

Advanced Android for Busy Coders •Two day, intensive Android training course. •Authored by Mark Murphy, founder of CommonsWare and keynote speaker at Droidcon 2012

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Date: 14 November 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Buffy: The Facebook Saver? From Ads to Apps and Back Again

Facebook App Center through iPhone

The hullaballoo surrounding Facebook's IPO, the eye-watering $100bn headlines and the subsequent bickering, has largely passed by the social giants' 901m users.

Last week's launch of the App Center could make a much bigger impression and may prove a canny move in answering criticism of Facebook's slow progress in monetising it's half-a-billion (yup, you read it right) active mobile users.

If the IPO critics are to be believed, the company's valuation and its future is all about advertising revenue, but the App Center launch launch hints at a longer-term strategy. If successful, it could establish Facebook at the heart of the app ecosystem, as well as seeing the coffers swell with mobile ad and targeting revenue.

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Mark Murphy Advanced Android for Busy Coder

Upon completion of this Advanced Android course, you will be able to: Construct a rich Android application integrating WebKit browsers Blend data from multiple data sources (Web, GPS, maps, contacts integrate with Android events, searches, and home screens

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Date: 15 August 2012
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Mark Murphy Advanced Android for Busy Coder

Upon completion of this Advanced Android course, you will be able to: Construct a rich Android application integrating WebKit browsers Blend data from multiple data sources (Web, GPS, maps, contacts) integrate with Android events, searches, and home screens

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Date: 16 May 2012
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Mark Murphy Advanced Android for Busy Coder

You will learn how to: Construct a rich Android application integrating WebKit browsers Blend data from multiple data sources (Web, GPS, maps, contacts) integrate with Android events, searches, and home screens

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Date: 9 February 2012
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Mobile Monday London: Accessibility Workshop

Join us for an informal workshop looking at accessibility for mobile services, apps and devices. We'll take a look at the business opportunity as well as learning how to tackle this with research and implementation.

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Date: 26 September 2011
Location: Siemens Room at The IET, UK

Mobile Monday Belfast: Accessibility workshop

Accessibility workshop looking at the business opportunity of making digital services more accessible to those with any kind of impairment or disability. We'll also be sharing tips and tricks on how to make mobile applications and services more accessible.

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Date: 26 September 2011
Location: The Black Box, UK

Latest US Neilsen Study Reveals Games Dominate App Downloads

Angry Birds at Game Design Expo 2011 by Vancouver Film School

Maybe it's the over-developed thumbs of the smartphone natives? Maybe the news doesn't have the draw that it used to. Either way, it's games that dominate app purchases in the US according to the latest Neilsen research.

NMA reports that of the 300,000 users surveyed in May, 93% bought mobile games, compared with 76% paid for apps with a news flavour. Surprisingly, bearing in mind thse figures relate to a US audience, the second most popular category of downloads was weather. I thought it was just us Brits who were obsessed.

The statistics reveal the top 10 categories of apps downloaded in the last 30 days are:

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The State of the Mobile Developer Nation

A discussion of the findings of the report: Developer Economics 2011 (free download) - covering the hottest issues, from app design and promotion to monetisation and user support.

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Date: 4 July 2011
Location: CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, UK

In The Brain of Matthew Baxter-Reynolds: XML Documents over REST Interfaces

Matthew Baxter-Reynolds – author of Cracking Native Mobile Development: Cross-platform Apps without the Kludge – presents an “In the Brain” session about one particular area of multimobile development, namely how to construct, transmit and read XML documents over REST interfaces.

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Date: 8 August 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK

London Android User Group : Payment and monetization

This month's Londroid meetup is on Payment and monetization, with three excellent talks on three different payment providers for in-app billing on Android: Google, Paypal, and Paythru.

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Date: 21 April 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Technique 2011: The Web & Mobile Training Camp

The Technique 2011 training camp, 18th & 19th March, Manchester. Join names including Dan Rubin, Seb Lee-Delisle, James Downes, Jerome & Antony Ribot, Mike Byrne and Matthew Ryan for intensive hands-on workshops in Javascript, CSS3, JQuery, Django, UX Design, Interaction Design for Small Screens, Mobile Games, iPhone OS, Android and more.

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Date: 18 March 2011
Location: The Studio at The Hive, UK