The emergence of mobile platforms has brought about the proliferation of a tremendous number of mobile applications. Still applications running in a standalone mode are popular, while the number of software as a service (SaaS) applications is not insignificant.
What is the definition of “service” in the context of a service oriented application?
It may differ depending on the situation. However, we refer to those retrieving, processing, and delivering well-tailored information specifically as users want.
Samsung bada is committed to be a service oriented platform. In other words, bada is the one that talks to various services, not the applications. Developers are free from having to learn how to bind services with their applications in service-specific manner. What you need to do as a developer is to simply use the services in the bada API, then bada automagically does all the work on behalf of you. Moreover, our bada development team has optimized service-to-bada platform connections, thereby ensuring a better user-experience in terms of performance and reliability.
Especially we are focusing on social network features with our global SNS partners: Facebook, My Space, and Twitter*. Local SNSs are also important to us and we are looking for prospective partner companies.
Such ready-to-use service integration is enabled by the bada server cloud in the back end. Samsung has invested extensive resources in building the servers. We also have prepared a rich, developer-friendly environment and support system for bada developers. In brief, bada aims to be a pioneering service oriented platform giving better user-experiences to customers, simplifying the development process for developers, and increasing the revenue of the service providers.
More interesting service features that bada provides are to be introduced soon. * Listed in alphabetical order.
Currently, the bada Development Team is hosting bada Developer Day around the world. Starting from Italy, up to now, events have been held in 9 European and Asian cities. We’ve presented both technical sessions as well as business sessions, which included the process for registering a bada application at SamsungApps.com and the certification policy for bada applications. Technical sessions included concrete information on practical topics, such as how to write a bada application. Some application demos on Wave, the first bada smartphone, received very positive responses from bada Developer Day attendees.
The bada Developer Day is seeing 100~200 visitors at each event, with fantastic feedback from enthusiastic attendees fueling the bada Development Team. You can get more information about bada Developer Day at bada Developers. Event details are posted on the bada Developers Blog, where the bada Developer Day presentation materials can also be downloaded. Due to the excitement the bada Developer day is generating about bada, more events in cities around the world are under discussion. By signing up at bada Developers, you can receive information on events at your nearest city by email when we host bada Developer Day for basic developers.
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Many bada applications are being demonstrated at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain. We are committed to supporting cool and useful applications for our customers. We thank all of our partners who came out at MWC to showcase their applications at the Samsung booth and we hope more partners and developers will join us in the new era of smartphone democratization.
