Starting Your Own Mobile App Business

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Starting Your Own Mobile App Business

How-to and training tips, resources, and tools for starting your own mobile app business, including additonal information for the class How to Start Your Own Smartphone App Business.

Mobile App Development Tools: Conduit Mobile

Conduit Mobile is a hosted service for quickly developing mobile apps and sites using existing web content. Web developers and tech-savvy users might find this no-coding approach useful when they already have an existing web site with useful content. . . . keep reading

An Easy Way to do Market Research for Your Smartphone App Idea

You might have had a idea or concept for an app before you started reading this or taking one of my classes. Now it's time to determine more clearly what your app concept is and what your app does. . . . keep reading

Basic Steps for Running an App Business

An app business includes more than the application itself. To help introduce you to the steps involved, I've broken them down into three general categories, which are Planning, Production, and Delivery. . . . keep reading

4 Places To Learn Programming and Coding

I've found some useful Web sites that I wanted to pass along for people who want to learn more advanced technologies like programming and coding. If you're already a programmer, learning a new language can . . . keep reading

Tablet Market Share Update

Tablets are a very different market. Globally, this is essentially the iPad's market, which is showing no signs of slowing down. After an initial drop in market share in late 2011 and early 2012 from 70% to 58% . . . keep reading

Smartphone Market Update October 2012

In Q3 of 2012, Smartphones made up over 54% of all mobile phone sales in the United States according to Smartonline. In the US, Apple's iOS, Google's Android account for over 90% of the smartphone sales. . . . keep reading

appmakr announces new release and drops Windows mobile

appmakr, which is a no coding mobile app development tool, announced a new release with additional features and that they are dropping support of Windows. . . . keep reading

Facebook Launches the App Center Directory

Facebook introduced the App Center on their developer blog. The App Center will be the destination directory for Facebook users to find and install Facebook apps. . . . keep reading

Mobile iPhone, iPad, Android, and HTML5 eCommerce: MobiCart

With the launch this month of MobiCart's ecommerce platform for Android devices, MobiCart provides app developers and business owners with sufficient technical expertise the ability to develop and launch complete ecommerce solutions for iOS Apple devices and Android. . . . keep reading

How To Use eBooks, Kindles, Nooks, and iPads
Anthony Cohen

In May 2011, Amazon.com announced its digital book sales had overtaken its printed book sales. Since the launch of the first Kindle in 2007, . . . keep reading

Best Sources for App Artwork, iCons, and Logos

Finding artwork for apps can be time consuming, but there are a lot of resources available that can help you get your app to market faster. Using a distinctive App icon helps people understand what your App does at a glance, which can make the difference between an app selling well . . . keep reading

App Inventor for Building Android Apps
App Inventor, a free tool for developing Android apps, was discontinued by Google and will be managed by the MIT Center for Mobile Learning at App Inventor Edu. App Inventor is Web based educational tool that requires no programming expertise . . . keep reading

App Developers Prefer iOS over Android
Flurry, a site that works with app developers for marketing apps, reported in a blog post that mobile app developers starting new projects preferred iOS over Android 69% to 31%. This latest figure, . . . keep reading