Posts Tagged ‘mippin’

Mippin knocks out Android client in 3 days

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Have a read of this one if you’re thinking about creating an Android application.� I keep on telling folk that if you’re a half decent programmer, knocking out an Android app is a piece of simplicity.� People don’t believe me.� They seem to think it’ll cost 50k before they can get something like.

Not the case.

I refer you to this piece written by Richard Hyndman, Head of Development for Mippin.� Richard is a decent programmer and after 3 days of playing was able to deliver a Mippin Android app, thus:

The result of my time spent on the Android SDK is the Mippin app, which is now in the Android Market Store. That’s right I finished the first version of the app yesterday evening and within 10 minutes I’d signed up, paid my $25 to become a registered Android developer and published the app into the Market place, seconds later it was live for download. That was a great experience, so simple, I spent the evening checking my phone every half hour to see how many downloads the app had and to see the comments coming in. In the first 12 hours there were over 3000 downloads – not bad.

I’ll need to grab Mippin when I’m next on the G1.� Excellent work Richard!

Scott Beaumont of Mippin on the arrival of Android

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Scott Beaumont, Mippin CEO, knocked me over this perspective this morning:

Android helps to bring standardization to a vital sector of the market, enabling Mippin to produce even higher quality services for smartphones. The launch of Android offers Mippin yet another opportunity to showcase our flexibility and scalability within a rapidly changing marketplace. We have already optimised Mippin for the new G-Phone on Android and it works like a dream; in fact we have already seen this device visit Mippin ahead of its production release!

Android provides yet another timely boost to data and content consumption, which is great for all the industry. Moreover, at Mippin we are huge advocates of open source development, and Mippin was developed using the same open source techniques that Google advocates too. Mippin’s core product philosophy is about supplying the best and broadest range of content with the best user experience possible on every mobile device. We therefore applaud any move that helps to dissipate lingering concerns over the quality of mobile content.

Bring it on! By the way, you can keep up to speed in on Android news on your mobile through Mippin on http://mippin.com/androidstream.

Another QR code story…

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

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To follow-up on Dan’s mention of QR codes, the City AM free paper in London had a prominent QR code on it’s Friday edition linking to a Mippin-ised version of their website.  Kudos to them for including it (and good instructions on how to use it) and to Mippin for being the ‘website mobiliser’ of choice.

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