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Android Arrives


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Android Attacks
A look at the meteoric rise of the Android platform in recent months

Android man

With the pre-release of LiveCode for Android deployment pack available to purchase now, Mark Taoilinn, RunRev marketing and communications analyst, examines the meteoric rise of Android and shows you why it's so important to get behind it.

Android’s recent momentum has captivated the mobile industry; worrying competitors, fascinating analysts and inspiring developers. Taking a quick look at the statistics it’s easy to see why: Android is now available on over 170 devices, through 169 carriers in 69 countries worldwide. Google Chairman Eric Schmidt announced at the Mobile World Conference last week that they are seeing more than 300,000 new activations per day. It's easy to get lost in figures like these so let me illustrate by giving an example: assuming Android were to launch on Christmas day as a completely new platform and given those daily sales, every high-school kid in America would have a brand new phone or device, powered by Android, in time to text their sweetheart on Valentine's day.

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Hands on LiveCode Android

Get the low down on what you can do with LiveCode Android. Read about the feature set, and work through the installation and Hello World example.

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RunRevLive.11

We are of course delighted that we have launched the first release of Android in time for our RunRevLive.11 conference in April. This means that our Day Zero beginners course will now incorporate instructions to deploy to Android as well as iOS.

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Reports that Steal the Show - Part 2

In this second article of the series, William Moseid gives a detailed overview of FusionCharts and the scripts used to power output of beautiful charts and reporting.

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