I have accumulated lots of links that serve as resources for understanding, building, and launching mobile apps and services. Every so often I will share a data point or an insight I gleaned from these resources and somebody will ask me for the link – I then go digging. To reduce the amount of digging I do and provide a better way to share these mobile resources I will start to organize them by topic here. If you would like to add something to this small directory please add them in the comments.
Mobile Design
- iPhone 3.0 GUI Photoshop Templates
- iPhone 4.0 GUI Photoshop Templates
- iPhone icons
- Android GUI Photoshop Templates
- Android Device Display/Screen Sizes
- Windows Phone 7 UI Design and Interaction Guide
- Windows Phone 7 GUI Photoshop Templates
- Windows Phone 7 Application Bar Icons
- Better Mobile Web Forms
- Mobile Touch Target Sizes
- Android Human Interface Guidelines
Mobile Development
- Android SDK from an iPhone Developer’s perspective
- Lessons Learned Developing Flickr Site for Mobile
- jQuery Plugin for Mobile Web Development
- HTML5 Web App Tutorial for iPhone Safari
- Sencha Touch Framework (HTML5 toolkit)
Mobile Technologies
- Location Technologies 101 (Wifi triangulation, GPS, Assisted GPS, etc.)
- How Accelerometers Work (opens pdf file)
- How Projected Capacitive Touch Technology Works (i.e. touch screen)
New Forms of Mobile Search & Discovery
- Gesture based Search (Yahoo! Sketch-a-Search)
- Image Recognition based Search (Google Goggles)
- Augmented Reality (Yelp: “Monocle”)
- Audio Search for Music (Shazam and SoundHound)
App Store and App Marketing
- App Store Metrics: Free vs. Paid, Growth, # of Apps, by App Store (Apple, Android, etc.)
- App Store Economy
- How to Launch an App on the App Store: Charting the App Store
- The Two App Stores: The Premium vs. Cheap App Store (deals with App Store pricing strategy)
- Building a Screencast for iPhone Apps
Mobile Monetization
- How Much Does Google Make on Each Android Device
- Performance of In-App Purchases
- Microsoft guarantees Verizon $400 for default search position
Web Businesses Adapting to the Mobile Era
- Kayak: 5% of Kayak’s Traffic Comes from Apps
- OpenTable: 3M Diners Sat Through OpenTable Mobile Apps (Worth $150M)
- Amazon: Mobile revenues 2009: $600M, 2010 on track to do $1.5B
- eBay: 11M downloads of eBay app, $1.5B in revenues from mobile channel
Mobile Strategy
- The Two Faces of Android: The Open vs. Commercial version
- Mobile Fragmentation is Forever
- Are People Willing to Pay for Digital Goods on Mobile Devices?
- What is Strategic for Google?
- The Very Personal Computer Era, Beyond PC
- Mobile Internet will Overtake PC (Mary Meeker presentation at Web 2.0 conference)