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Trends on Tuesdays: What the Developers are Saying About Native Platforms
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 [...]
311 views | No commentsFeb 12th, 2013 | Filed under Case Study, Challenges, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Strategy, Research, Trends -
You’ll Have Them at Swipe: Making An Awesome Mobile User Experience Webinar
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 [...]
312 views | No commentsFeb 11th, 2013 | Filed under Case Study, Events, Gov News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy, Resources -
Mobile Gov Resources for 2013!
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) [...]
2,349 views | Comments OffDec 21st, 2012 | Filed under Case Study, Gov News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy, Research, ResourcesTags: AIDS.gov, APIs, apps, DHS, DOL, GSA, HHS, IRS, mobile first, mobile gov, mobile web, native apps, NIH, open content, TSA, USDA, web apps -
Trends on Tuesday: Mobile App vs. Mobile TV Consumption
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 [...]
570 views | Comments OffTags: apps, data, Dept of Labor, mobile gov, mobile products, native apps, trends on tuesday, TV, web apps -
Trends on Tuesday: Smartphone Ownership
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 [...]
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USDA’s Save Our Citrus
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 [...]
357 views | Comments OffOct 25th, 2012 | Filed under Case Study, Gov News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy, Resources -
GAO App
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 [...]
969 views | Comments OffMay 17th, 2012 | Filed under Case Study, Gov News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy -
The Mobile Platform Development Webinar Series Continues!
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, [...]
1,075 views | 1 commentMay 7th, 2012 | Filed under Gov News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy, Resources