Like Amazon and Barnes and Noble, Kobo continues to
develop apps for tablets and smartphones including the Apple iPad and iPhone.
These companies are
developing apps for tablets as well as iPhones.
Not exact matches
Polar, whose smartphone
app clients have included Condé Nast and CBS Sports, has inked a deal with RIM to
develop more than 100 exclusive
apps for RIM's new PlayBook
tablet computer, which launches April 19.
If a significant number of people are viewing your website on smartphones and
tablets,
for example, perhaps it's time to consider
developing a mobile
app or optimizing your site
for mobile to better serve them.
A priest in Italy, already known
for an iPhone application, has now
developed an
app for the iPad that would give priests the ability to celebrate Mass using the popular
tablet computer from Apple Inc., rather than the traditional missal.
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In «Toddlers and
Tablets,» an article in the latest issue of Education Next, Alex Hernandez writes about the
apps now being
developed for preschoolers.
Amazon
developed a specialized version of their Kindle e-reading
app for Samsung smartphones and
tablets called Kindle
for Samsung.
Barnes and Noble has been making
tablets since 2010 and they
developed their own
app store in order to provide an avenue
for customers to download and install free and paid
apps.
Serious readers have turned to
tablets to read e-books due to the sheer number of
apps that have been
developed for Android and iOS.
Shah also noted that if RIM is «smart about signing up the army of Java
app developers to come
develop for PlayBook, it would make the new
tablet a force to reckon with in health care.»
Despite evidence that sales of non-iOS
tablets will not take off
for the next few years, a number of news organizations have launched one - size - fits - all
apps for Android
tablets to complement their multi-platform, «all access» subscription offerings, and a few have even
developed apps for RIM's QNX platform and Palm's webOS software.
Also unveiled today was a new Readium SDK project to
develop an EPUB ® 3 rendering engine optimized
for native
apps on
tablets and other devices.
Most are less expensive than Windows
tablets and iPads, but users often feel Android
apps are not as well
developed as those
for the iPad.
Many developers that are being courted to
develop for the beleaguered
tablet don't like the fact it is so easy to pirate
apps.
I've also
developed a proprietary
app for phones and
tablets.
After
developing the interface
for the
tablets, Queens Library set out to
develop an
app that could be used by all library customers to access the library's programs and services on their own devices.
Earlier this year the company
developed an
app with Griffin Technology that allowed kids to color with their fingers or with an optional iMarker stylus on
tablet devices, but that
app had a lot of competition from a multitude of free and paid drawing programs
for small hands.
The
App World
for the Playbook houses customized applications that were strictly
developed for the
tablet by developers.
Instead of paying the fees to
develop 3 or 4 different e-reading
apps for Android, Windows, Blackberry, MAC, or iOS, some companies are moving to working on a singular reading platform, that is able to be accessed on any smartphone,
tablet, or e-reader.
More and more sites are
developing the capability to launch fully interactive literature
for tablet PCs, smart phones, and other
app - enabled devices.
It also had a mini-USB (oddly not micro-USB) and a Toshiba
developed «Resolution +» technology
for scaling phone
apps and making them look decent on a
tablet.
The
apps are part of Adobe's new cloud based initiative, aptly termed «Adobe Creative Cloud,» which is being
developed as a means of accessing
apps relevant
for desktop and
tablet devices or
for finding essential creative services.
Adobe is working around the slower download times
for smartphones versus
tablets with the introduction of Background Downloading, which allows the publishers to identify which content needs to be focused on in the front - and - center of the download by flagging it when they
develop the
app, compared to content that can load at a more leisurely pace.
Hopefully, as more companies like Oceanhouse Media and iStoryTime continue to
develop interactive children's content
for tablets through downloadable
apps, the prices of some of the more popular children's book titles will come down.
This update helps developers easily work with the Native SDK beta version to
develop more
apps for the PlayBook, as also bring popular Android
apps to the
tablet, in the near future.
Country's government wants to
develop a constantly - growing ecosystem of education - related
apps for the budget
tablet aimed at students.
To make it easier
for developers to programme
apps for the new OS, QNX has created a virtualisation option that means they won't even need to own a
tablet to
develop for it.
Well, due to Google's announcement about Icecream Sandwich, developers have chosen to wait
for Icecream Sandwich SDK (
Apps developed can hence run on
tablets and Mobiles).
Lenovo has a number of
apps and games that have been
developed especially
for the
tablet - computer usage.
The gallery
app is
developed for the
tablet's size, as is the video player - both show the BRAVIA Engine 2 off at their best.
After Amazon's success
developing an iPad
app, they've now tailored
apps for Android and Windows
tablet platforms, doing the usual: giving access to 775,000 ebooks, which can be bought once and read on various platforms.
One of the problems with having a new operating system is the fact that there usually isn't an ecosystem of
apps developed for the
tablet when it launches.
Developers won't create Android
tablet apps without
tablets, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab is the first one you'd actually want to
develop something
for.
HD
apps exist in the market but what's needed is
for development teams to be looking at 200 million Android smartphones, tens of millions of Android
tablets and see that momentum as a sign to take Ice Cream Sandwich and
develop for Android first, not second.
The Motorola XOOM, while it isn't exactly the best
tablet in the market (far from it with its fair share of issues plaguing the device), has been quite the firm favorite in the homebrew community who not only
develop their own
apps for it, but have also decided to take more than just a peek underneath the hood to find out whether more performance can be tweaked from the device in order to push it to its limits — and beyond.
Seeded with a substantial donation of code from the Kobo e-reader, the Readium SDK project's goal is to
develop an open - source EPUB 3 rendering engine optimized
for use with
apps on
tablets, smartphones, and other mobile devices.
Samsung's marquee relationships in the book space include its deal with United States bookseller Barnes & Noble to produce Nook - branded
tablets and its collaboration with Marvel Comics — which offers its Marvel Unlimited
app free to use
for Samsung Galaxy Tab users and is
developing an immersive version of Tony «Iron Man» Stark's lab
for viewing on Samsung's new Gear VR 3D headgear («It is a totally immersive experience,» notes O'Neill).
Good to see some comments of people happy with it (the 5» is a little bit small
for the
tablet comics /
apps I'm
developing though).
BBX will also support applications
developed using any of the tools available today
for the BlackBerry PlayBook — including Native SDK, Adobe AIR / Flash and WebWorks / HTML5, as well as the BlackBerry Runtime
for Android
Apps — on future BBX - based
tablets and smartphones.
I can't say exactly what it is that is holding some of these
app developers back from
developing tablet apps for Android, but I have said it before and I will say it again: the Android
tablet app selection just can not compete in quantity or quality with the options available
for the iPad.
Android 4.0 marks a major shift in the way the operating system works as the goal is to minimize fragmentation across devices while also providing a universal approach to
app development, with
apps and hardware
developed around 4.0 expected to seamlessly scale from the current mobile phone and
tablet hardware templates into the goal of a universal platform that can allow
for apps to work across devices without the need to code
for specific devices.
The company recently announced on its blog that it will be
developing Metro - style
apps for Windows 8, so those of you who plan to pick a Windows 8
tablet won't have to worry about not having the Kobo reader on the device.
For that extra money you get higher - resolution cameras, a higher resolution screen and the promise of 4G further down the road, but at the cost of a less
developed OS, fewer
tablet - specific
apps, shorter battery life under general use and a generally less polished experience overall.
The DPT - CP1 features Bluetooth 4.2 and 802.11 ac Wi - Fi
for wireless sharing of documents between the
tablet and a smartphone running a newly -
developed companion
app (Credit: Sony)
Please note that the Google Body
app is specifically
developed for Android 2.3 Honeycomb running
tablets, older versions of Android OS.
A cheap
tablet is great but Amazon needs to make sure one or more irresistible
apps get
developed soon
for their shiny new device.
And as we've noted in the past, this is a problem both
for Google's Android
tablet strategy as well as smaller publishers that don't necessarily have the resources of USA Today to
develop apps for every platform.
Also, they
developed special
apps for this device and did not just splash stock
apps on the
tablet and see how it works.
This
app can help take your pet foster program to the next level Maddie's ® Pet Assistant (MPA) is a free
app for mobile phones and
tablets developed by Maddie's Fund ® to help animal shelters and rescue organizations provide support to, and communicate with, their foster families about the pets in their care.