Vision Mobile regularly surveys developers on mobile development trends. The infographic shows developers’ opinions of programming in Android and iOS respectively. Here are some other key findings. According to the report, which is sponsored by AT&T, Mozilla, and Nokia, 72% of developers are now developing for the Android platform, a 4 percentage point increase compared [...]

Learn how to create amazing and engaging Mobile Gov User Experiences during our webinar on Wednesday, February 27 at 1 p.m. EST! Anytime, anywhere government will be used in numerous contexts and requires developers to think about more than just content, security and privacy during implementation. In fact, Smashing magazine has listed 12 elements to consider [...]

With mobile use growing exponentially and federal agencies implementing customer-facing mobile services for the Digital Government Strategy, we decided to put together a Mobile Gov resource “cheat sheet” with concepts and information we think will be helpful for agencies implementing Mobile Gov in 2013. Here’s what Mobile Gov implementers need to know! APIs Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) [...]

According to Big Data/App Services company Flurry and illustrated by their chart posted here, people’s time spent consuming content on mobile apps is starting to chip away at their time spent consuming TV and web content. Specifically: This chart updates Flurry’s analysis comparing time spent in mobile apps on smartphones and tablets to time spent on [...]

Comscore just released data that shows the majority of people in the U.S. who own mobile devices, own smartphones. As of the last day of September, 234 million Americans used mobile devices. For the three month average period ending September 2012, 119.3 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones. That amounts to 51.0 percent of [...]

The USDA Animal and Plant Inspection Service released the Save Our Citrus iPhone App to allow people to report citrus disease when they see it.  The app is currently only available on the iOS platform. The USDA describes the app as such: The Save Our Citrus app is a free iPhone application from the United [...]

In order to serve it’s information users from anytime and anywhere, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) launched the GAO App to provide direct, simple mobile access to new reports, testimonies, videos, and podcasts. The GAO App is available on the iOS platform and has future plans to release it on the Android platform. GAO says [...]

The Mobile Platform Development Webinar Series will continue with Apple iOS on Wednesday at 2 p.m. EST. Before the session, we wanted to share some highlights from the first two sessions presented by Research in Motion(RIM)/Blackberry and Windows Phone. The series was developed to help government agencies learn how to deliver government content–information, data and services–anytime, [...]