App development in the classroom #SecEd http://bit.ly/10g8N1o App development in the classroom #SecEd
With the new [UK] computing curriculum prioritising programming skills, Torsten Stauch argues that app development projects can help schools to inject creativity into the new programmes of study.
The UK government’s proposals to reform the national curriculum include the final draft of long-discussed plans for a new computing curriculum.
Under the new approach, schools will be encouraged to shape the curriculum to meet the aspirations and priorities of pupils.
The new programmes of study are designed to equip students with basic skills with a focus on designing and writing programmes and understanding programming language.
The ability to think without limits, to conceptualise without constraints, must be the cornerstone of any modern education system. It is this that warrants app development’s place in the new computing curriculum.
Cleverlize .. build your own App : online authoring tool http://www.cleverlize.com/ Cleverlize .. build your own App
Just enter your contents and create apps for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, etc. automatically and instantly.
No programming skills required
Just choose interaction formats, enter contents, set the app design and with one click generate your apps.
Multiple publishing platforms
Create your apps for users of Apples iOS, Googles Android, HTML5 and soon even more platforms.
Multiple interaction formats
You can choose several formats like tests, flashcards, video, audio, plain texts and more.
24/7 updates
Upload or change any contents and update them for your end users in real time. free(with advertising) & paid online app authoring tool
OpenMinds http://openminds.io/ OpenMinds instantly converts your worksheets (or the content you choose) into engaging quizzes, flashcards, puzzles and games for mobile devices and the web.
The OpenMinds platform is free to sign up, and a user account comes with free access to public content and basic analytics.
Are you an educational app developer? The OpenMinds platform allows third-party apps & games to pull in personalized educational content and leverage our adaptive learning technology.
TouchDevelop https://www.touchdevelop.com/ TouchDevelop is a programming environment that runs on iPad, iPhone, Android, PC, Mac, Windows Phone
You write scripts by tapping on the screen. You do not need a separate PC or keyboard. Scripts can perform various tasks similar to regular apps. Any TouchDevelop user can install, run, edit, and publish scripts. You can share your scripts with other people by publishing them to the TouchDevelop script bazaar, or by submitting them as an app to the Windows Store or Windows Phone Store.
You can turn any script your write in TouchDevelop into a real Windows Phone or Windows 8 app if certain conditions are met.
Apps for Good http://appsforgood.org/ Apps for Good
Where young people learn to create apps that change their world
Designers, developers, marketers and entrepreneurs in the tech industry are invited to share their skills and knowledge to support our 11 to 18 year old students. Join a one hour feedback session via Skype to provide industry insight and guidance to their app projects.
Apps for Good is no ordinary course. We don’t just “teach a subject”. We help young people ready themselves for employment, self-employment and entrepreneurship in the real world.
Join the movement to upskill the next generation using mobile digital technology
A Roadmap For Successful Edu App Development http://edudemic.com/2013/02/a-roadmap-for-successful-education-app-development/ A Roadmap For Successful Education App Development
Are you debating a venture into the world of education app development? More power to you. Seriously. It’s rough out there. Everyone and their brother has an education app these days and you need to have a novel idea to really stand out. Even then, that’s not enough to make it big. It’ll take several years of hard work, persistence, and being able to survive the cutthroat world of app marketing.
Making iPad, Android apps with Primary age students http://geekyteachers.com/2013/01/making-ipad-android-apps-primary-age-students/ Making iPad, Android apps with Primary age students
This workshop from the 2013 21CLHK Conference looks at the possibilities for visual coding with Primary age students to create their own mobile and desktop apps.
Apple and Google both provide a software developer kit (SDK) for creating apps. Getting started if you don’t come from a coding background is an extremely daunting task and needs you to learn to program in the languages of Objective C or Java before you could even hope to make something useful. Several tools now exist that hugely simplify the process and put the emphasis back from the coding to the design.
GinWiz - Optimize Your Website for Mobile Devices http://ginwiz.com GinWiz - Optimize Your Website for Mobile Devices .. so NOT actually an App
GinWiz by InfoGin offers a complete suite of tools and services to build an optimized mobile browsing experience for small to large businesses, agencies and publishers. We offer a Do It Yourself model or a complete tailor-made solution by GinWiz professional team.
Instamob http://www.instamob.co.uk/ Instamob
Get your mobile site up and running in a few simple steps. No need to re design or re write entire pages of content.
Our unique step by step wizard converts the hard work you have already put into your website into a dynamic and readable mobile format.
Xpress Web App Builder (Nokia) http://xpresswebapps.nokia.com/ Xpress Web App Builder (Nokia)
A set of easy-to-use tools for Series 40 developers.
These new tools make web app development easier than ever. With minimal effort, you can now create great apps for recent Series 40 devices, including the expanding range of Nokia Asha devices.
Conduit : build your own mobile web app for free http://mobile.conduit.com/ Conduit : build your own mobile web app for free
Conduit offers an easy do-it-yourself platform to create an HTML5-based mobile Web site and apps for the different platforms. "We're trying to give companies a tool to really go mobile," said Ori Lavie, vice president of product strategy at Conduit Mobile. "It's sometimes a difficult struggle." See review at cnet
Create your own App(s) at Yapp https://www.yapp.us/ Create your own App(s) at Yapp
How To Develop Android Apps http://bit.ly/OHnPoq How To Develop Android Apps
So, you want to become and Android Developer? Or you have this great idea for an app but don’t know where to start? Congratulations, you have come to the right place… I am going to show you how to develop Android apps!
How to Create Your Own Learning 'App' http://bit.ly/RCPnz1 How to Create Your Own Learning 'App'
Web guru Anthony Luscre believes "if you're not teaching over your head, you're not doing an effective job." He applies this principle particularly when encouraging teachers to develop and implement apps in their classrooms.
AppShed http://appshed.com/ Build your own iphone app or HTML5 mobile web app online no coding required. Easy iphone and ipad app development.
AppShed is intuitive flexible platform that enables anyone to build content-based web apps that work on any smartphone (FREE) and native multi-platform (iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Windows 7) apps online.
AppShed also provides an app-building service – this includes a design and up to four AppShed extension features.
An App in one hour
Mobile Site vs Mobile App http://blog.dudamobile.com/infographic-mobile-site-vs-mobile-app Mobile Site vs Mobile App
Just because “Apps” is the buzzword doesn’t necessarily mean that every business needs one. Often times, a mobile website does the trick. But, sometimes, a business needs both. An infographic featured on Mashable aims to answer the question: Which should you build first?
iBuildApp http://ibuildapp.com/ iBuildApp is an online service that provides a simple and inexpensive way to build, test, track and update a native iPhone/Android, web app or even iPad app that supports text, rss feeds, images, audio, and video, and much, much more.
Create a free app for your company, department, college or friends within minutes!
Creating your own app with iBuildApp takes only a few minutes and is absolutely FREE. Your followers will see your name and icon in the App Store. They can upload your app on their mobile device, while backstage you have a powerful content management system to update the app “on the fly”, any time, as often as you would like.
Designing Web Apps for the iPad http://sixrevisions.com/web-applications/designing-web-apps-for-the-ipad/ Designing Web Apps for the iPad
In this article, I will guide you through my creative process in which I developed a simple but useful iPad web app in just one weekend: BracketSlash.com.
I do not consider myself a professional iPad app developer, so if you feel a little apprehensive, let my experience be an inspiration to you.
Teacher Creates Own Apps to Help Students Study http://bit.ly/KqrvNA Teacher Creates Own Apps to Help Students Study
Feraco, who teaches multiple subjects at Columbia Secondary School for Science, Math, and Engineering in New York City, recently released a series of educational apps dedicated to helping students prepare for the New York State Regents exams, the state's subject-based tests that high school students are required to pass for graduation.
Out of the 12 apps he has developed so far, eight are specific to the Regents exams, covering subjects like biology, algebra, and U.S. history.
Though digital devices are prohibited at his own school, Feraco loves the idea of schools going BYOD.
Chupa http://www.chupamobile.com Chupa is the world’s first online marketplace where developers buy and sell, from each other, cutting edge source code packages and components for a variety of Mobile development languages and frameworks.
School App Kit http://schoolappkit.appspot.com/schoolappkit School App Kit is a one-stop app, mobile and web communication platform. It enables teachers to publish from anywhere to everywhere, putting vital school information where it is needed - at parents’ and students’ fingertips.
School is closed? Won the championship? Need to remind a class of their revision schedule? Put it online and on mobile instantly.
Schools around the world are using School App Kit to improve communication to parents, to make publishing content easier for teachers and to engage students with mobile technology.
In less than 10mins, you can be up and running. No technical knowledge needed, no payment details required and no payment necessary for 30 days.
Sketch Nation Studio http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sketch-nation-studio/id506337826?mt=8 Sketch Nation Studio
an amazing free app where users create and play their own games or download games from other users.
With Sketch Nation Studio, you can even have the chance to sell your game on the App Store for money! We will PUBLISH AND ADVERTISE it for you!
Creating a game is super simple: Just draw the in game objects, play around with the customization options and before you can say "Sketch Nation Studio," you will be enjoying your own self-created game!
Game Salad http://gamesalad.com/ Game Salad
Game Salad is a logic based game developer for Android, iOS, iPad, iPhone, HTML 5 without having to know how to code. It has a built in Marketplace to buy graphics, audio and templates. The free version allows you to create and web publish, the Pro version $299USD a year.
iBuildApp http://www.ibuildapp.com/ iBuildApp is an online service that provides a simple and inexpensive way to build, test, track and update a native iPhone/Android, web app or even iPad app that supports text, rss feeds, images, audio, and video, and much, much more.
Create a free app for your company, department, college or friends within minutes!
We designed iBuildApp so you can benefit from using easy-to-understand and convenient tools when building or updating your app. Your customers will benefit from simplicity and quick load time.
Creating your own app with iBuildApp takes only a few minutes and is absolutely FREE. Your followers will see your name and icon in the App Store. They can upload your app on their mobile device, while backstage you have a powerful content management system to update the app “on the fly”, any time, as often as you would like.
MIT App Inventor http://www.appinventor.mit.edu/ MIT App Inventor
Creating an App Inventor app begins in your browser, where you design how the app will look. Then, like fitting together puzzle pieces, you set your app's behavior. All the while, through a live connection between your computer and your phone, your app appears on your phone.
You can build many different types of apps with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like MoleMash or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend's faces. You can even make use of the phone's sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone.
But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate. You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android's text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have the phone ask the questions aloud.
Socialize http://www.getsocialize.com/ Socialize allows mobile developers to instantly add social features to their apps
Socialize lets users share your content to other users within the app, as well as in top social networks, greatly increasing app discoverability.
MIT App Inventor [Android] http://appinventor.mit.edu/ MIT App Inventor
Creating an App Inventor app begins in your browser, where you design how the app will look. Then, like fitting together puzzle pieces, you set your app's behavior. All the while, through a live connection between your computer and your phone, your app appears on your phone.
You can build many different types of apps with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like MoleMash or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend's faces. You can even make use of the phone's sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone.
But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate.
To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a professional developer. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior.
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WebMobi http://www.webmobi.com/ WebMobi is a cloud based Mobile Web Application creation and publishing platform that allows for rapid creation and distribution of mobile web apps and hybrid apps for smartphone and tablets.
With WebMobi, developers can build up an engaging mobile web app or hybrid app that customers can access on their iPhone, Android and other smart phones.
The mobile app or hybrid app can feature a blog or feed, YouTube, Twitter, ads, polls, custom pages , modules for progressive enhancement and more.
WebMobi also provides advanced tools for creating differentiated mobile applications.
iStencyl : Make Your Own Game App http://www.stencyl.com Design once. Deploy everywhere.
Create your game once. Export to iOS, Flash, and soon, Android and HTML5.
No Coding (unless you want to)
Our block builder makes game creation a snap - literally. Prefer to use code? We fully support coding in Objective-C.
iStencyl has no restrictions for subscribers, collects no royalties, and adds no watermarks.
You have full control, and your creativity is the only limitation.
Test your game in seconds on the iOS Simulator or on your personal iOS devices.
App Data Room http://appdataroom.com/ App Data Room is the easy and affordable way to build, manage and distribute an iPad app to your staff.
The App Data Room allows you to quickly and easily deploy content to everyone in your organization via tablet devices like the iPad. Through the easy-to-use web interface, you can create the content categories and add associated documents, video, audio or image files. When a user installs the app, it automatically syncs your materials for on and offline browsing.
GoMo Learning http://www.gomolearning.com GoMo Learning is a mobile learning authoring tool, allowing you to create your own high-quality mobile training applications quickly and cost-effectively.
Cross-platform support for iPhone, iPad, Android and PC compatible app deliveries.
BiznessApps http://www.biznessapps.com/ BiznessApps ... fast and easy way
for small businesses to create mobile apps.
$39 a month - iPhone application
ViziApps http://www.viziapps.com/ ViziApps
Used to be called Mobiflex
a self-service portal that lets you create smartphone custom apps in a
few hours without coding and then lets you download the apps to run on your
smartphone in a few seconds. The apps can use native resources such as GPS and
the camera and can access back-end data. MobiFlex supports the iPhone and
Android, and Blackberry.
Includes support direct phone access to Google Docs Spreadsheets. Users now have a quick and free online database with MobiFlex apps that works on both iPhones and Android phones. You design the data interface
between your phone and Google spreadsheets using a simple graphical tool. And if
you know Excel, there is nothing new to learn.
The portal service is free for 30 days for
designing and testing your apps. When your apps are deployed in production, it
costs $3.99 per end-user per app per month, with a $499 monthly cap per app for
use by any number of end-users.
AppMakr http://www.appmakr.com/ AppMakr
Appmakr is a browser-based platform designed to make creating your own iPhone app quick and easy.
Using existing content and social networking feeds, AppMakr is a user-friendly system allowing for the creation of native iPhone applications.
AppMakr can be used by anyone with existing content and fans or customers to reach; bloggers/writers, business owners, website owners, musicians, sports figures….
Red Foundry http://www.redfoundry.com/ Red Foundry is a complete solution for building and managing mobile apps.
Without coding, our unified platform enables everything from stunning content based mobile apps to powerful enterprise solutions, while reducing the mobile app development cycle from months to days.
Start building your own mobile apps today for FREE.
No credit card, no commitment.
APP NET http://app.net/ App.net consists of a suite of tools mobile developers can use to create an attractive, social media-optimized and SEO-friendly web presence — including landing pages, third-party integrations and download widgets — for their applications.
Google App Inventor http://appinventorbeta.com Google App Inventor
As a result of the [Summer 2011] changes to Google Labs and App Inventor, effective immediately, the URL for App Inventor will change from appinventor.googlelabs.com to appinventorbeta.com. This URL change WILL NOT have an impact on your projects stored in App Inventor. All data that you see in your appinventor.googlelabs.com account, as well as documentation and email forums will be available at appinventorbeta.com.
In order to ensure the future success of App Inventor, Google has funded the establishment of a Center for Mobile Learning at the MIT Media Lab, where MIT will be actively engaged in studying and extending App Inventor. This transition will happen at the end of 2011.
Dudamobile : Create a mobile version of your website http://www.dudamobile.com Create a mobile version of your website .. not an app.
Duda makes websites mobile by optimizing your existing website for smartphones. We keep your mobile site in sync with your regular website and offer mobile analytics for free! With Duda, you can have a mobile-friendly website in just minutes.
Developer Tools (Apple iOS) http://developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/xcode.html Xcode IDE | Interface Builder | iOS Simulator | Objective-C 2 | Organizer |
Xcode is the hub of your development experience. Tightly integrated with the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks for building Mac OS X and iOS apps, Xcode is an incredibly productive integrated development platform.
Xcode is as a complete, full-featured IDE built around a smooth workflow that integrates the editing of source code, with the build and compile steps, through to a graphical debugging experience - all without leaving the view of your source code.
Google App Inventor http://mashable.com/2010/07/12/google-app-inventor/ Google App Inventor: Now Anyone Can Create an Android App
App Inventor for Android : Create apps for your phone!
Creating an App Inventor app begins in your browser, where you design how the app will look. Then, like fitting together puzzle pieces, you set your app's behavior. All the while, through a live connection between your computer and your phone, your app appears on your phone. appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/
Create your App for Nokia Ovi http://appwizard.ovi.com/web_nokia/signIn.jsp Create your App for Nokia Ovi
In just a few minutes, you can bundle web content into a convenient and accessible mobile application to extend your brand to new markets, build market share, and even monetize your content.
Ovi app wizard takes you through the process step-by-step, and makes app creation easy. No programming skills are needed, and no registration fees are required.
5 Pitfalls to Avoid When Developing a Mobile App http://mashable.com/2010/12/06/mobile-app-development-pitfalls 5 Pitfalls to Avoid When Developing a Successful Mobile App
Simplicity is the key to a successful app, and if it all seems to be getting too complicated, chances are you’re doing it wrong.
Getting overly complex in your app development is not only costly in development resource, it’s also asking for problems in the end product. Complexity increases the likelihood of bugs sneaking through and often negatively impacts the performance on the end user’s handset.