Announcing Special edition Mobile DevClub.lv

At Special edition Mobile DevClub.lv we together with C.T.Co invite you to enjoy following presentations:

• Aivars Ritovs from NFC team will talk about "How to start-up"
  (Language – Latvian)
  Stories and main points for IT guys: How to start-up your thought? Best latvian and world stories, NFC team and Aivar’s individual experience about products, platforms, team and start-ups development.
  Tags: Start-up, apps, solutions, NFC, NFC team, MyNfcteam

  Aivars Ritovs is the team leader for a Baltic start-up company „NFC team” that is out to build a world’s first NFC infrastructure for business and consumer solutions. His previous experience with NFC includes working solution with international cleaning service based on Nokia Phones and consulting several big operators on their NFC-enabled services. Currently, the NFC team is the partner for major consumer Electronics Company in launching the word’s first low-cost NFC phone. NFC team has several NFC products and platforms for B2B market.

• Gusts Linkevičs from If P&C Insurance AS will talk about "Live tiles and Lock screen on Windows Phone 8"
  (Language – Latvian)
  Live tiles and Lock screen are one of the biggest advantages of WP8. You will learn what types of Live tiles exist and how to work with them from your application to achieve fantastic customization. Have you ever wanted customizable Lock screen with data you want? It is possible on WP8 and I will show you how.
  Tags: Windows Phone 8, Live Tiles, Lock Screen, ScheduledTasks, Background Agents

  Gusts Linkevičs is member of dotnet user group, Microsoft Student Partner and is passionate about WP8.

• Aleksandrs Pliska from DPA will talk about "Mobile application development"
  (Language – Latvian)
  Nowadays the usage and development of mobile applications is fast growing and important part of whole IT market. Implementation of mobile applications in different business areas and solutions is becoming more and more integrant. This talk will be about DPA experience of mobile applications development in Android, iOS and Windows Phone environments. During the presentation I will introduce three DPA developed mobile applications (one from each environment) and will speak about the development process, key challenges and lessons learnt.
  Tags: Mobile Applications, Development, Android, iOS, Windows Phone

  Aleksandrs Pliska is project manager assistant at DPA Solutions Department. He has experience in mobile applications analysis and testing in DPA projects.

• Dmitry Ivanov from C.T.Co will talk about "Difference in Cross-platform mobile development – native vs hybrid vs HTML5"
  (Language – Russian)
  Every developer thinking about doing something for mobile platforms, wants to maximize potential reach and cover as many platforms as possible. Cross-platform development seems to be an answer and HTML5 is the de-facto standard for that approach. What are the potential caveats of going cross-platform with HTML5? Why Facebook decided to go native with its apps for iOS and Android after trying HTML5 first?
  Tags: Mobile Development, HTML5, cross-platform

  Dmitry Ivanov is the Lead Mobile Developer in C.T.Co interested in various aspects of cross platform development with experience in a number of platforms, including iOS, Android and Windows Phone.

• Lottery of iPad mini provided by C.T.Co

Please pay attention – this time we start at 17:00 and event will take place at Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (RTU), 2nd floor, Mazā zāle, Kaļķu iela 1.

We would also like to thank our sponsors: Devtraining and C.T.Co.