Windows Phone Marketplace Officially open to Mango App/Game Submissions!
Todd Brix, Senior Director of Windows Phone Division, posted in the Windows Phone Developer Blog that the Marketplace is now accepting and certifying Mango apps!
These apps can take advantage of new Mango features such as fast app switching, background audio, multiple and double sided Live Tiles, better Search integration and more. WP7 currently has over 30,000 apps (in less than a year since the OS was launched) and developers can now optimize their apps to truly take advantage of Mango.
Todd Brix does mention that although this does not signify an early release of RTM mango, it does mean that anyone running a beta version of Mango will be able to see and use these apps. Check out some awesome features developers can now utilize:
*The WP SDK 7.1 RC (Release Candidate) tools, available in English and Japanese, include the ‘Go Live’ license that lets developers publish their apps to Windows Phone Marketplace
*Developers should submit their apps now to become a part of the must-have app selection in time for the new wave of Mango phones coming this Fall
*Game developers can now submit games to the 19 new Mango markets announced in in July, including: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, India, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden and Taiwan
*The new WP SDK 7.1 RC accelerates app time to market:
*The WP SDK 7.1 RC includes the completed Marketplace Test Kit that allows developers to test their apps for certification requirements before submitting to Marketplace, ultimately speeding up the app certification process and the time it takes an app to hit Marketplace
*Developers can easily cross submit games and ratings information to multiple markets via App Hub
*For those developers interested in making money with in-app advertising, the Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone is now installed as part of the WP SDK 7.1 RC tools, making it easier for devs to get started monetizing their apps
We put out an article yesterday going over Brandon Watson's efforts to capture WebOS developers and his general attitude towards welcoming all developers with open arms ready to help in any way he can. Armed with these tools and with seemingly endless resources from Microsoft, developing for WP7 sounds like a great idea (I'm sure MS would agree).
So what are you waiting for? Start developing Mango apps!
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So we can have more feature phone apps?
- 2 Bunny
@2 Bunny, Damn dude I’m really getting tired of u and ur senseless bashing. wp7 is not like how it was at launch with this mango update and it is far from being a feature phone but of course ur gonna be too high strung and stuck in ur own delusional ways to even try it. now SCRAM!
@eric12341,
Me iz really getting tired of o and yur grouching.
If MS has “changed” Windows Mobile 7 so much from launch to this “mango update” thing, tell me – what functionality has it gained? Is it actually able to tether internet or run applications from the internet or look at a different Today screen or listen to GrooveShark or actually see the whole “app” that it’s running at once or actually even sync with a computer or play music or put more than six buttons on a screen at a time or control your computer or be an FTP server or FTP client or function as a USB storage drive or give you easy control of your data connection and WiFi or run Manila or transfer files over bluetooth or download music or run Opera Mobile 10 or send an MMS or let me tweak what the buttons and shortcuts do or connect a VPN or back up contacts and tasks right on the device or even listen to a live radio station (streaming or FM) or start an EvDo connection or customize the startup splash or even do something as simple as multitask?
And that’s just the tip of the Iceberg. Android can do not all, but many of those things. Most feature phones are capable of a few, but Windows Mobile 7 is capable of none of those.
That is why I say what I say. My intention was never to make you grouchy, it was to shed light on something that is useless and way overhyped. Thank you for your understanding.
- 2 Bunny
@2 Bunny, multitask yes, run html5 apps=yes I’ve been able to listen to FM radio since NoDo, I can send MMS, I dont have a need for opera because IE works much better than any opera on WM. I can download music right from the main music player. I can back up contacts with my windows live and other email accounts. as for the FTPs manila and start up screen changes who really cares about those? I used to hate it when custom roms changed the start up screen m
@2 Bunny, Mango brings “socket” support to the table, so I would suspect that yes FTP clients are more than likely possible now. It already has apps that allow it to remote control your PC, and official remote desktop apps are coming with Mango.
Yes, I can manage my connections just fine, thank you very much. Yes, I do, in fact, have two “home” screens… my “lock” screen with my wallpaper, notifications, calendar appointments and clock… plus my launch screen with my live tiles. Yes, I can multitask with Mango.
I don’t see how having Opera available would improve the platform, but Microsoft has not declined to let allow them to be published. I don’t see how having alternate home screens would benefit the platform (much the same way other OS developers including ALL of the ones you listed EXCEPT Android) have agreed.
Admittedly, I think tethering would be a welcome addition, and I’m sure it’s coming.
But you’re saying Android can’t do all those things either. So that must make it a “feature” phone too, because it’s not really unlimited. Oh wait, smartphones are actually devices that can contain a subset of features built-in and then can be enhanced by the addition of third-party applications. Feature phones can’t do that last part. But that means WP is a smartphone, not a feature phone. Which makes you wrong.
@2 Bunny, you don’t spread FUD u don’t get grouched on.
I don’t understand what the “feature phone” thing means. What is that and how is it insulting?
@orangekid,
“Feature phone” is not a bad thing. If your phone doesn’t run Windows Mobile (5,6), Android, Blackberry, or whatever OS Palm makes/made, it is not a smartphone and is a feature phone because it just runs the proprietary OS from the manufacturer and carrier that can’t do much.
If you’re not looking to do much above emails, text messages, voice, and some primitive “apps”, a feature phone is a great choice because they are fast at the few things that they can do.
- 2 Bunny
@2 Bunny, So you’re telling me that BlackBerry OS and WebOS can do more than iOS and WP7?
That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. Features-wise WP7 and iOS are right up there with Android, I would know since I own all 3 operating system devices. BlackBerry sales are going down faster than a dropped anvil for lack of features. WebOS had so many features that HP discontinued all their products right after a dual-core tablet was launched (or course that was poor marketing as well). I can’t think of many things Android can do that iOS and WP7 can’t (with Mango update). I really don’t see where you’re basing this “feature phone” semantic. Remember that WP7 is less than a year old and has already grown so much as a smart phone which amazes even me.
I also notice that every article online I see calls iOS and WP7 devices “smart phone.”
Don’t get me wrong. Out of every mobile OS out there, I still personally prefer Android, but there is no objective reason why ANY mobile OS is flat out “better” or deserves some other categorization than others, and certainly putting BlackBerry and WebOS above iOS and WP7, I don’t know about that.
Is there any kind of article or categorization by anyone else that I missed that goes over this more?
@orangekid, I couldn’t have put it any better myself.