Keynote: Developing Mobile Applications for Multiple Platforms

Developing software for mobile devices requires special attention, and it still requires more large effort compared to software development for desktop computers and servers. With the introduction and popularity of wireless devices, the diversity of the platforms has also been increased. There are different platforms and tools from different vendors such as Microsoft, Sun, Nokia, SonyEricsson and many more. Because of the relatively low-level programming interface, software development (e.g. for Symbian) platform is a tiresome and error prone task, whereas Android and Windows Mobile contains higher level structures. This keynote 1