Computers

¿Cuánto queda de cada euro al vender una app en Europa?

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Cuando me invitan a hablar sobre Android o sobre apps suelo siempre comentar algo de monetización y saco este gráfico:

vender_app_europa

Y como siempre genera bastante interés y es lo mas twitteado y a lo que mucha gente le saca fotos, voy a explicar de dónde salen estos datos.

Partiendo de que el usuario paga 1€ por la aplicación:

  • Primero se le quita el IVA, un 21% cuando se vende en Europa desde España. Si vendes fuera de Europa no se aplica IVA, por lo que el gráfico mejoraría un poco, pero sigamos con el caso de Europa.  Tenemos que 1€/1.21 = 0,8264€, por lo que 0,1735€ son de IVA. El IVA se quita antes que la comisión de la appstore.
  • Luego vienen Apple o Google y cogen su comisión, un 30% en ambos casos, por lo que el gráfico es válido para apps tanto Android como iOS. Entonces 0.8264€ x 0,3 = 0,2479€, y nos quedan 0,5785€
  • Y ahora están los pagos a la Seguridad Social y a la Agencia Tributaria. Variarán en función de la base de cotización y el volumen de facturación, pero estimando que anda sobre un 30%, es 0,5785€ x0,3 = 0,1735€
  • Entonces al desarrollador le queda 0,5785€ – 0,1735 = 0,4050€. Vamos, 40 céntimos, y aún habría que quitar inversión en equipos, alquiler de oficina, electricidad, etc.

Lo curioso es que pasa algo parecido si tienes un kiosco y vendes Chupa-Chups. Poca gente es consciente de los costes que conlleva vender o realizar cualquier actividad económica.

Para más temas fiscales sobre vender apps os recomiendo mi artículo Vender en Google Play desde España.

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¿Son las apps una chapuza temporal?

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mobile_appsSé que esto es tirar piedras contra mi propio tejado ya que yo me gano la vida gracias sobre todo a aplicaciones Android, pero no puedo dejar de pensar que el fenómeno de las apps móviles me recuerda a lo que pasaba hace 10 años en los ordenadores de escritorio, cuando teníamos que descargar una aplicación para Windows, otra para Mac… substitúyase esto por Android, iOS y Windows Phone… sí señor, aplicaciones de escritorio, ¿a que suena rancio?

¿Y por qué Google, que se supone tiene a los mayores expertos en web del mundo apoyó Android cuando tenía un sistema operativo basado en web como ChromeOS? Para mi la respuesta es que la web móvil no estaba preparada y los navegadores móviles no conseguían la suficiente potencia para simular una experiencia nativa. Y es que a día de hoy Android, mejor dicho, la máquina virtual java (JVM) Dalvik, sigue consiguiendo mejor rendimiento que los motores HTML5 móviles (que yo considero también máquinas virtuales), y aunque éstos mejoran día a día, debido a las limitaciones de Javascript (JS) es muy difícil que se aproximen al rendimiento de una JVM.

También podría ser que la mejora de las CPUs móviles haga que no importe el menor rendimiento de las aplicaciones web.

Y está el moviento extraño de Google con Dart. JS es malo, pero… ¿crearte un lenguaje nuevo tú sólo? ¿sin contar con ninguno de los otros actores? Google ya parece Microsoft en sus mejores tiempos ¿recordáis del malogrado VBScript para HTML? Puede ser que la gente de Google sí crea que el futuro está en la web, pero no con JavaScript.

Por otra parte estoy viendo decepcionado como Google se resiste a integrar la Chrome Webstore en Google Play, privándonos de poder publicar aplicaciones HTML5 para Android directamente (sin recurrir a chapuzas como PhoneGAP), también veo cómo Google y Apple siguen proporcionando WebViews del paleolítico capando APIs tan esenciales como WebGL ¿Y por qué? ¿Acaso abrir las puertas a las aplicaciones HTML5 es matar la gallina de los huevos de oro de las apps? Alguien en Cuppertino y en Mountain View debe pensar que sí.

Y aquí entra el, de momento fracasado, FirefoxOS. La gente de Mozilla sí ve claro el futuro en la web. FirefoxOS no es más que un Android al que le cambian la JVM Dalvik por el motor HTML5 Gecko. Tampoco me parece que FirefoxOS tenga mucho sentido ya que es más fácil instalar Firefox en cualquier dispositivo Android y se tiene igual acceso a todas las aplicaciones del Firefox Marketplace. Sin embargo, Firefox con su Marketplace es, en mi opinión, la mejor forma de distribuir y ejecutar aplicaciones HTML5 en un móvil. Pero Firefox está disponible sólo en Android, las políticas de Apple impiden explícitamente usar motores web que no sean el suyo, de nuevo… ¿miedo a las aplicaciones HTML5?

En los últimos 10 años hemos visto como las aplicaciones web substituían a muchas de las aplicaciones que usábamos cada día en nuestros equipos de escritorio, ¿sucederá esto con las apps móviles? Pues no lo sé, dejemos esto de adivinar el futuro para los programas nocturnos de las televisiones.

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My Gradle Tips and Tricks

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Are you a small business who has no online presence? You know that small business SEO promises great results, but even though you have an online presence, you haven’t paid much attention to it before. If you need to learn such tactics in order to improve your business, CEOs such as Andrew Defrancesco might be able to help. 

If you are overwhelmed by the task of ranking on Google and attracting new customers, search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a small business’s crisis marketing strategy. Better yet, you don’t need a budget and you don’t need to pay for ads, designers or marketing consultants to help you.

These small business SEO tips are a cost-effective tactic with long-term benefits that can boost visibility, drive traffic, connect you with new audiences and ultimately, generate leads and sales.

Here’s everything you need to know about small business SEO. No jargon, no fancy software, no experience needed–just beginner-friendly tips you can implement right now to rank on Google and reach more people.

Small Business SEO Basics

“What is all this hype about SEO?” you might wonder.

Think about it: how often do you go to the second page of Google’s search results? Very rarely, I’m guessing. That’s because you get what you want on the first page.

Business SEO starts with this:

Start by making small changes to your site so your domain (or specific pages within the website, like a blog post or landing page) appears on the first page and as close to #1 as possible.

According to this digital marketing agency Boston, the higher your website ranks, the better your chances that people will click-through and engage with your site–whether that means signing up for your mailing list or buying your product or service. Ranking high on Google also helps with your small business branding.

There are two kinds of traffic that come from Google that are at the core of business SEO::

  1. Paid: Google Ads that appear on the search result pages
  2. Organic: people clicking through from a Google search page on non-ad results

We’ll focus on organic traffic in this post.

And no, you don’t need to pay anyone to “place” your website on Google. If you add the right keywords in your website’s content, it will appear automatically–and I’ll show you how.

Six key factors that impact your small business SEO rankings:

  1. Ranking for relevant keywords
  2. Ranking for trending keywords
  3. Creating engaging and relevant content that matches searchers’ needs
  4. Building high-quality backlinks to your website pages
  5. Fast loading speed
  6. Having a mobile-friendly site

Let’s get started.

1. How to Find and Rank for Relevant Keywords

Keyword research forms the foundation of an effective business SEO strategy.

Let’s say you’re a furniture retailer and are creating blog posts about home office furniture. In order to get the right people reading these posts, you need to ensure your website appears in the top search results whenever someone searches for “home office furniture.”

Now, how do you identify which other keywords to rank for?

The first step is to brainstorm broad topics related to your company, product, or service. Think like your customer: what would your target audience search for that relates to your business?

What To Do: Easy Version

Open a new tab in your browser and start typing in a potential keyword. You’ll get keyword suggestions of what people are searching for.

google search example for a keyphrase

In the example above, a florist could enter “flower delivery” and you’ll get both seasonal (mother’s day), location based (NYC etc.) and general (service) keywords that you can either add to your existing pages or plan new content around.

Or, let’s take the home office furniture example.

google search example

I typed in “home office furniture” and now I have even more relevant keywords related to the topic such as “home office furniture sets” or “home office furniture ideas.”

For location, try typing in “home office furniture Toronto” (or whatever you location is) and see if it comes up.

Write down all the keyword ideas that apply to you.

What To Do: More Advanced

Chromium Embedded Framework

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chromiumHTML5 is a fantastic app framework, but there are many environments where you cannot rely on the features support of the browser (specially when dealing against Internet Explorer, old windows versions or environments where you cannot freely upgrade the browsers). Recently I found this problem trying to package Mobialia Chess 3D for Windows 8. Microsoft provides some tools to package HTML apps to native apps, but they will run with the Internet Explorer engine, lacking features like WebGL, WebRTC, etc.

Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) is a library that allows to embed a Chromium webview in your native Windows or Mac desktop application. So you can convert any HTML5 to a traditional desktop app (and I bet some users to try guessing if Mobialia Chess 3D is an HTML5 app). You can also create a Windows/Mac installer to  distribute the app (I used InnoSetup, but this is another story…).

Using CEF requires a small knowledge about Windows/Mac desktop app development. I created a Windows app using Visual Studio Express, it was not very difficult, because CEF includes a “cefclient” sample project that you can use as a template to start your project development.

The main problem that I found was the size, embedding CEF will add 45Mb size to your installed application. I also found other minor problems like the lack of mp3 sound support (due to license problems) solved converting the sound files to ogg.

CEF is already used by great desktop applications like Steam, Evernote or Spotify, so it’s a great option to consider in your developments.

Setting up the GoogleTV Emulator

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Many people has problems with the Google TV Emulator because it hangs up booting at the Google TV logo. The problem is that it only works with specific device configurations and resolutions.

First you need to install the “GoogleTV Emulation Addon” using the Android SDK Manager. Then, create a new “Device Definition” (notice the new “Device Definition” tab at the top of the Android Virtual Device Manager in the lasts Android SDKs).

When prompted for the device definition parameters you must enter:

googletv1

This setup is for a 720p resolution, for a 1080p you must change the resolution to 1920×1080 and the density from tvdpi to xhdpi. Once the device definition is created, the next step is to create a new Android Virtual Device using it:

googletv2

Et voilà, our Google Tv emulator is up and running:

googletv3

JavaScript as a Runtime

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The future is here, and JavaScript (JS) is everywhere, but JS development is so hard that many people prefer to develop in other languages and then compile their code to JS, using JS as a universal runtime. Here are the most interesting options:

GWT

GWT stand for Google Web Toolkit, but now it’s in hands of the community and extensively used in many corporations. GWT compiles Java into JS and it’s strongly optimized. I use it a lot, and I feel very productive using an advanced IDE like Eclipse with tools like code assist, refactor, etc.

https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/

CoffeeScript

A very compact language, inspired by Ruby and Python and that has become extremely popular in the last years. I’m not very familiar with the “Syntactic sugar” and I’m more productive with traditional languages (yes, I love curly backets! {}).

http://coffeescript.org/

Haxe

If you are an ActionScript developer (Adobe Flash), this is your language. It not only compiles to JS and ActionScript, also to PHP, C++, C#, etc. It’s becoming popular for the development of multi-platform mobile games with NME.

http://www.haxe.org/

Dart

This is a new language for the web pushed by Google. It tries to be a “modern and structured” language for the web that can be run directly into the browser, but to retain compatibility (and to run in other browsers that publicly rejected Dart), it can also be compiled to JS.

http://www.dartlang.org/

List of languages that compile to Js: http://altjs.org/

Google Chrome Frame

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Recently I’m hearing that Internet Explorer 10 (IE) is great, etc. but IE continues lacking some standards like WebGL. I’m working with WebGL in some HTML5 projects like:

and I couldn’t make the IEWebGL plugin work (it requires a different initialization). But Google has a great solution: the Chrome Frame, it’s an Internet Explorer plugin that runs an embedded Chrome, making possible for some advanced web apps to run into IE. Not great enough? It works with IE 6,7, 8 and 9!

Using it in a web page is extremely easy: Adding this header to your web page, IE will use Google Chrome Frame if installed:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1">

And you can also add this javascript code asking the user to install Chrome Frame if it isn’t available:

<!--[if IE]>
  <script type="text/javascript"
      src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/chrome-frame/1/CFInstall.min.js">
  </script>

  <div id="prompt">
  </div>

  <script>
    window.attachEvent("onload", function() {
    CFInstall.check({
      mode: "overlay",
      node: "prompt"
    });
  });
  </script>
<![endif]-->

More Google Chrome Frame resources:

DevFest-X BCN 2012

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For those who don’t follow me in the social networks, I’m now a co-organizator of the GDG Vigo (Google Developers Group), founded by Reinaldo Aguilera. In this group we are organizating a lot of interesting (and free!) Android and HTML5 activities (speechs, codelabs…) near Vigo, Galicia. Join to our Google Group and stay tuned!

This year I also went to the Barcelona DevFest, but as GDG Vigo we tried to help with the organization.

We participated in a Three.js codelab with Ricardo Cabello (Mr.Doob) showing how to make a very simple WebGL game in some simple steps. Slides are available at:

http://www.alonsoruibal.com/slides/codelab_three.js/

and source code is hosted in github: https://github.com/albertoruibal/codelab_three.js/

In another session I also told my experience migrating some Mobialia apps from Android to HTML5 with GWT, those slides are at http://www.alonsoruibal.com/slides/android2gwt/

Thanks Google, GDG Barcelona and GDG Tarrragona for the organization of such great event!

Java vs C# vs Javascript

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*** UPDATE: This article had a HUGE mistake in the Javascript part, read below ***

I’m a Java guy but I’m always opened to other programming languages. I heard great things about Mono and the .Net platform, among those things recently I saw a Xamarin article about Android being ported over Mono in a project called XobotOS (http://blog.xamarin.com/2012/05/01/android-in-c-sharp/) and they are getting a much better performance than with Dalvik.

They did it using Sharpen: an automated tool that can convert from Java source code to C#. I was hesitated and started to port my “Carballo” chess engine to C#. Sharpen runs as an eclipse plugin (but outside eclipse). The best tutorial that I found to install sharpen is here: http://www.pauldb.me/post/14916717048/a-guide-to-sharpen-a-great-tool-for-converting-java

The new Carballo Chess Engine with a C# version is now hosted at GitGub (https://github.com/albertoruibal/carballo). You can launch the conversion tool running “ant” on the “csharp/” folder. This C# version hasn’t a graphic interface yet, but is great to make some comparisons…

I use a lot the BT2630 chess test suite, with positions to find the best move, lets see how much time needs my chess engine in Java to find the solution for the first position:

r q . . r . k . 8
. . . . . p p . 7
p . . . . . . . 6
. . . . b N P . 5
. p . . P . . P 4
. . . . . Q . . 3
P P . . . . K . 2
. . . . . R . R 1
a b c d e f g h white move
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 1 score cp 170 nodes 176 time 42 nps 4093 pv f3b3
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 2 score cp 136 nodes 1044 time 123 nps 8419 pv f3b3 b8b7
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 3 score cp 131 nodes 4335 time 358 nps 12075 pv f1f2 b8b6 f3b3
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 4 score cp 111 nodes 14603 time 854 nps 17079 pv f1f2 b8b6 f3b3 e8e6
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 5 score cp 115 nodes 27593 time 1311 nps 21031 pv f1f2 b8b7 h1d1 a8d8 f2d2
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 6 score cp 119 nodes 50536 time 1450 nps 34828 pv f1f2 b8b7 h1d1 a8d8 f2d2 d8d2
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 7 score cp 117 nodes 110415 time 1693 nps 65180 pv f1f2 b8b7 h1d1 a8c8 f2d2 b7c6 b2b3
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 8 score cp 110 nodes 314754 time 2515 nps 125100 pv f1f2 b8b7 h1d1 a8d8 f2d2 d8d2 d1d2 b7c6 b2b3
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 9 score cp 112 nodes 564320 time 3580 nps 157587 pv f1f2 b8b7 h1d1 a8d8 f2d2 d8d2 d1d2 a6a5 b2b3 b7b6
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 10 score cp 129 nodes 1219488 time 6174 nps 197487 pv f1f2 b8c7 f3b3 c7b7 b3d5 b7d5 e4d5 a8d8 h1d1 e8e6 a2a4
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 11 score cp 241 nodes 2430413 time 11373 nps 213681 pv f5g7 e8f8 g7f5 a8a7 f5h6 g8g7 f1f2 b8b5 h6f5 g7g8 f3b3 a7d7 h1c1 d7d1

This is 11.373 seconds at 213.681 nodes per second, my java version is “Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_26-b03)”.

And with Mono? let’s see the result on the same machine:

DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 1 score mate 0 nodes 176 time 25 nps 6769 pv f3b3
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 2 score mate 0 nodes 1044 time 36 nps 28216 pv f3b3 b8b7
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 3 score mate 0 nodes 4335 time 58 nps 73474 pv f1f2 b8b6 f3b3
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 4 score mate 0 nodes 14603 time 136 nps 106591 pv f1f2 b8b6 f3b3 e8e6
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 5 score mate 0 nodes 27593 time 247 nps 111262 pv f1f2 b8b7 h1d1 a8d8 f2d2
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 6 score mate 0 nodes 50536 time 450 nps 112053 pv f1f2 b8b7 h1d1 a8d8 f2d2 d8d2
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 7 score mate 0 nodes 110415 time 813 nps 135644 pv f1f2 b8b7 h1d1 a8c8 f2d2 b7c6 b2b3
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 8 score mate 0 nodes 314754 time 2058 nps 152867 pv f1f2 b8b7 h1d1 a8d8 f2d2 d8d2 d1d2 b7c6 b2b3
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 9 score mate 0 nodes 564320 time 3693 nps 152766 pv f1f2 b8b7 h1d1 a8d8 f2d2 d8d2 d1d2 a6a5 b2b3 b7b6
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 10 score mate 0 nodes 1219488 time 7673 nps 158911 pv f1f2 b8c7 f3b3 c7b7 b3d5 b7d5 e4d5 a8d8 h1d1 e8e6 a2a4
DEBUG SearchEngine - depth 11 score mate 0 nodes 2430413 time 15490 nps 156891 pv f5g7 e8f8 g7f5 a8a7 f5h6 g8g7 f1f2 b8b5 h6f5 g7g8 f3b3 a7d7 h1c1 d7d1

That is 15.490 seconds at 156.891 nodes per second with the “Mono JIT compiler version 2.10.8.1 (Debian 2.10.8.1-3)”.

I didn’t found the Sharp and Mono magic, at least in my case Mono is about a 30% slower than Java. This may be as a result of the automated code conversion…

I tested the GWT part in the GWT Developer Mode. In this mode, the code is run in the server as Java (and not in JS). In recent tests I found that the Javascript version is much more slow, probably because of the GWT Javascript Long emulation (Js does not has 64bits integers).

Well and this chess engine also has a GWT version. GWT is another magical Google product that converts your java code to Javascript. Let’s see how fast runs this test on the browser:

[INFO] [org.vectomatic.libgwtsvgchess] - Main.info(depth 1 score cp 170 nodes 176 time 56 nps 3087 pv f3b3 )
[INFO] [org.vectomatic.libgwtsvgchess] - Main.info(depth 2 score cp 136 nodes 1044 time 186 nps 5582 pv f3b3 b8b7 )
[INFO] [org.vectomatic.libgwtsvgchess] - Main.info(depth 3 score cp 131 nodes 4335 time 483 nps 8956 pv f1f2 b8b6 f3b3 )
[INFO] [org.vectomatic.libgwtsvgchess] - Main.info(depth 4 score cp 111 nodes 14603 time 997 nps 14632 pv f1f2 b8b6 f3b3 e8e6 )
[INFO] [org.vectomatic.libgwtsvgchess] - Main.info(depth 5 score cp 115 nodes 27593 time 1123 nps 24548 pv f1f2 b8b7 h1d1 a8d8 f2d2 )
[INFO] [org.vectomatic.libgwtsvgchess] - Main.info(depth 6 score cp 119 nodes 50536 time 1251 nps 40364 pv f1f2 b8b7 h1d1 a8d8 f2d2 d8d2 )
[INFO] [org.vectomatic.libgwtsvgchess] - Main.info(depth 7 score cp 117 nodes 110415 time 1571 nps 70238 pv f1f2 b8b7 h1d1 a8c8 f2d2 b7c6 b2b3 )
[INFO] [org.vectomatic.libgwtsvgchess] - Main.info(depth 8 score cp 110 nodes 314754 time 2648 nps 118819 pv f1f2 b8b7 h1d1 a8d8 f2d2 d8d2 d1d2 b7c6 b2b3 )
[INFO] [org.vectomatic.libgwtsvgchess] - Main.info(depth 9 score cp 112 nodes 564320 time 4063 nps 138858 pv f1f2 b8b7 h1d1 a8d8 f2d2 d8d2 d1d2 a6a5 b2b3 b7b6 )
[INFO] [org.vectomatic.libgwtsvgchess] - Main.info(depth 10 score cp 129 nodes 1219488 time 7474 nps 163142 pv f1f2 b8c7 f3b3 c7b7 b3d5 b7d5 e4d5 a8d8 h1d1 e8e6 a2a4 )
[INFO] [org.vectomatic.libgwtsvgchess] - Main.info(depth 11 score cp 241 nodes 2430413 time 14216 nps 170951 pv f5g7 e8f8 g7f5 a8a7 f5h6 g8g7 f1f2 b8b5 h6f5 g7g8 f3b3 a7d7 h1c1 d7d1 )

I can’t believe my eyes : 14.216 seconds at 170.951 nodes per second with Google Chome Version 19.0.1084.52… and this is also an automated conversion process…

Yes, in my tests Javascript is faster than Sharpened Mono…

MobileCONGalicia 2011

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El viernes pasado, y gracias a la iniciativa de María Encinar (@encinar) y Martín Pérez (@mpermar), se llevó a cabo el primer evento para desarrolladores móviles en Galicia: MobileCONGalicia.

Las ponencias fueron de los más variado, tuvimos a:

  • Eugenio Estrada (@eugenioestrada) un crack de Windows Phone nos metió a todos el gusanillo de desarrollar en WP
  • Alberto Gimeno (@gimenete), desarrollador iOS nos habló de posibilidades de monetización de apps
  • Elena Pérez (@ilnuska) experta en interfaces de usuario en @SpartanBits, puso a caldo (con conocimiento de causa) al equipo de diseñadores de Android
  • Ricardo Varela (@phobeo), experimentado desarrollador curtido en 1000 batallas, habló de APIs móviles
  • Martín Pérez (@mpermar), nos habló de Tropo, Phono y otras APIs de telefonía dándonos grandes ideas de oportunidades de negocio
  • Hermes Piqué (@hpique) experimentado desarrollador Android e iOS que nos habló de Unit Testing
  • Jordi Bonet de Softonic explicó como han reinventado su negocio orientándolo hacia las descargas móviles
  • Finalmente, Nacho Sanchez nos contó su experiencia empresarial en @InqBarna desarrollando apps

Algunas de las presentaciones se pueden visualizar aquí

Yo participé con una ponencia sobre Android, y como la entrada al evento eran 25 euros (una ganga por cierto), hice una presentación con mis 25 consejos para los que comienzan a desarrollar; ya sabéis, a euro por consejo:

El evento terminó con un AppCircus del que fuí jurado junto con Miguel Sílva (@MSilvaConstenla de @Blusens, Elena (@Ilnuska) de @SpartanBits y Nacho de @INQBarna. Estas fueron las aplicaciones que se presentaron:

  • PictoDroid: Excelente aplicación Android para permitir a las aplicaciones con problemas de expresión comunicarse mediante pictogramas
  • Mussage: Aplicación IOS que permite enviar mensajes con canciones que están en la biblioteca del receptor
  • Chove: Completo radar de lluvia para españa en Android
  • Extremadura Rural: Guía offline de alojamientos rurales en Extremadura
  • ReallyLateBooking: Aplicación IOS y Android para buscar ofertas de hoteles en el mismo día
  • Binaurality: Método para aprender inglés basado en la escucha binaural para IOS y Android
  • Bits4Meetings: Iniciativa para proporcionar un sistema de creación de aplicaciones para eventos personalizadas (de los creadores de Ipoki!)
  • Berokyo: Aplicación iOS que permite organizar en estanterías documentos, contactos y medios digitales, sincronizándolos con DropBox
  • Obradoiros Abertos: Aplicación que ofrece información geolocalizada de talleres, tiendas y puntos de interés de artesanía gallega.
  • Absolute Defense: un shot’em up de gran calidad al más puro estilo R-Type

El nivel de las aplicaciones presentadas fué muy bueno. La app ganadora fue ReallyLateBooking, y la finalista Berokyo, esperamos haber sido justos. Mención especial me merece la presentación de Juan Porta de la aplicación Chove!, un tremendo showman más puro estilo gallego, que nos hizo pasar un momento estupendo, pena que no nos dejaran valorar la presentación.

Referencias en prensa/blogs:

Por si fuera poco y gracias a Blusens, tuvimos una fiesta del evento en una discoteca Santiaguesa, que se adentró en altas horas de la madrugada… Atención al detalle del gorro de Android de @IronSil, y curioso el efecto de “Ojos Blancos” de la cámara del Galaxy Nexus.