This is the slide deck that KMS's Director of Technology presented at Can Tho University on Saturday, September 28th, 2013

1. BECOMING A MOBILE DEVELOPER
– WHAT MATTERS TO YOU?
Phong Bui – Director of Technology @ KMS Technology
http://vn.linkedin.com/in/phongbui
http://facebook.com/aphongbui
phongbui@kms-technology.com

2. MOBILE DEVELOPMENT
– WHAT MATTERS TO YOU?
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Mobile
Apps
Common
Myths

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MOBILE APPS

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The #1 technology in 4 megatrends
The fastest technology adoption in history, ever!
Over 1.7 million apps with 65 billion
download times
15B in 2011 and 19B in 2012
High demand job nowadays
WHY MOBILE?

5. PLATFORM FRAGMENTS
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Android: Market Share iOS: Financial Success
Windows Phone: Struggling; BlackBerry: Old-fashioned
Others: Sinking

6. TECHNOLOGY DIVERSE
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Native
Web
Hybrid
Objective-C,
Java, C#, C++
HTML, CSS,
JavaScript
-Web View
-Native Wrapper
-Open GL

7. YOUR LUGGAGE
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RESTful, SOAP Web services
JSON, XML
Server-side technology
Java/C#/Ruby/PHP, …
Objective-C/Java
Android
HTML5,CSS,
JavaScript
Cross-platform
frameworks
C#(WP),C++
(BB),J2ME,…

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COMMON MYTHS

9. MYTH #1
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Reality:
- Get your app visible to end users among
1million other apps is really challenged.
Marketing innovation is usually more value
than your app innovation.
- Mobile app is usually has shorter lifecycle
than desktop app. Succeeded apps have
updated version every week
Create your own app is an easy way to make money

10. MYTH #2
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Idea is the most worthy and guarantee a success
Reality:
- You’re very rarely to be the 1st one who has
implemented the idea so you need to build
the best app to be dominant among existing
apps

11. MYTH #3
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Reality:
- UI/UX design is combination
of researches, knowledge,
skills, and art
- It’s always easy said than
done.
I’ll provide a better user experience

12. MYTH #4
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Full trust on marketing media
Reality:
- Marketers always introduce
attracting messages by addressing
differentiates but you need your
clever judgments.

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TAKE AWAY

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THANK YOU