Interested in getting your Android app more play? On February 7-8, 2012, the BlackBerry Developer  Conference will be coming to Amsterdam. This event will be the place where the developer community in Europe will come together to understand how to work with the latest innovations and breakthroughs for the BlackBerry® platform. Learn how to quickly get your app up and running on the BlackBerry Playbook and how best to generate revenue from this new market. Attendees will also receive a free BlackBerry PlayBook! Register at http://www.blackberrydevcon.com/ with discount code:DSTPN3 before December 23rd for 50% off the early bird rate of €250. See you there!

During droidconNL there will be free wifi access for all. This has been made possible by Eurofiber, Signet and TradeDoubler. Eurofiber is a specialist provider of managed dark fibre-optic connections, optical transmission services over DWDM and Ethernet services from 10 Mbps based on a finely meshed fibre-optic network. Signet is the Internet Service Provider for businesses and offers the largest network coverage in the Netherlands. Finally TradeDoubler is an international performance-based digital marketing company. Founded in Sweden in 1999, they have successfully expanded their business over the past 12 years and today offer an integrated digital marketing portfolio.

HTC is a global leader in mobile innovation and design. Its developer programme, HTCdev , is designed to support developers worldwide by providing them with resources to facilitate the development of ideas and applications – as well as making it easy to connect with each other and tap into the global community for advice and information.

Great applications can exponentially improve the mobile experience, irrespective of platform and hardware specification. HTCdev is your place to go to for inspiration as you set out to maximize the potential of HTC devices. HTCdev is starting to get a real presence in Europe after sponsoring droidconUK they are now joining the show in Amsterdam and sponsoring the Androidworld app of the Year award. To join the community, please visit http://www.htcdev.com/.’

MEDION has joined the Android ecosystem, very recently they disclosed their Android offerings at IFA 2011 and now they will be at droidcon Amsterdam.

In the areas of PC-Multimedia, Consumer Electronics, Telecommunications and Digital Services, MEDION is one of big names in Europe. They recently announced their first Android tablet, the NVIDIA Tegra 2 powered Medion LifeTab, which should be available in-time for the holiday season. It seems MEDION has plans to let Android play an important role in their product lineup, because they are looking for both Android System Engineers and Android Application Engineers in their company HQ in Essen, Germany.

Do read more at:

http://medion.easycruit.com/vacancy/628411/59129?iso=de

http://medion.easycruit.com/vacancy/628395/59129?iso=de

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Our Golden Sponsor Blackberry has amazed the audience at the recent DevCon Americas with their
Android Player. The idea of the Android player is to run existing Android apps on the Playbook, and subsequently on BBX devices. During DevCon RIM reps were manning booths that helped developers do exactly that – take their Android .apk files and show them how to transform them into Playbook apps.

RIM engineers have done an incredible job there. Even though the player was in beta all it took for an Android app to be repackaged as a Playbook app was a command line incantation – and that’s it. No code change required whatsoever and we heard it ran beautifully without a glitch. The Android player runs as a background system process so running Android apps on the Playbook is entirely transparent to the user – there is no need to manually start the player. Read more »