EVE Technology Lab

I have found "Aura" for android to be a great app.

There really isn't anything decent for the Windows Phone. There were a couple good ones before CCP changed the API keys but they've not been updated. Here is what I'm currently using.

EveLet - Simple character monitor. Not much to speak of but it works.
Eve Ship Browser - Browse the ships of the game and view stats. Some of the models are even in 3D so you can ship spin on your phone!

The Apple and Microsoft business models aren't really conducive to free apps and CCP isn't going to like you charging $$ for apps on these phones. Does CCP have that $99 fee if you want to charge for apps? If so you are looking at $200 a year to put something on iPhone or WP7. You'd be hard pressed to create an app for Eve that you could break even on. WP7 now has side-loading for hobby apps but you have to be pretty technical to make that work; further reducing your audience. Android is really the best place for free/hobby apps. I'm hoping WP8 changes things for us.

Something that sent push notifications when Eve sends notifications or mail to any of my characters would be the most useful for me. I've got EveMon for monitoring most everything and I'm usually on a PC at least once a day so character monitors on the phone aren't that useful. Knowing immediately when a tower is under attack however would be priceless.

Something similar to the Xbox Live / Windows Live App, should be fairly simple to do that.

Strange....most of the interviews I have seen from larger dev companies building top 100 Android/iOS apps say that WP is much better to develop for.

WP7 has 7 of top 10 phones rated on Amazon for a reason.

Really, before you open your mouth, go try to develop for it.

If you can access Bluetooth, let me know because I can make you VERY VERY rich :) because there is an entire INDUSTRY out there sidelined by MSFT that you can sell to and make TRILLIONS.

I have, I am, and WP is a terrible developer story for "real world" applications.

I worked at MSFT for a decade, I had to recommend Android for the reason of lack of API access to critical funcationality that they needed, that is why droid is the number one platform for mobile device interaction and pretty much EVERYWHERE on EVERY DEVICE imaginable.

Droid access to NFC, Bluetooth, Sql database, side loading etc etc... WP cannot do that, at least not on public API's.

WinCE was the last really programmable mobile from MSFT, Windows Mobile was killed off, WinCE is end of life, Windows Phone is the new API, Windows RT is comming, Windows 8, sometime, MS is currently forcing developers of "real world" field/embedded apps to go to Windows Embedded (overkill for field apps that are just data acquisition and sending back to base over the air) and WP is not recommended for such applications and no other platform is available.

I am currently developing a field capture application, its using Bluetooth, REST, JSON and Sql db on the client, WP cannot do those basic things for developers. I am also focusing on deliverying augmented interfaces using wearable devices, again WP cannot do that either, Android CAN, when you have something to deliver in say 3 months time, you can't wait around for Balmer to get of his fat behind and say "make it so". MSFT lost the mobile media device market (Zune), they lost the mobile market (Windows Mobile, Windows Phone etc), they are now trying to turn the desktop into a mobile market (Metro). Spare me the fanboy talk, I talk reality, I have had this discussion many times with fanboy MS current employees whom I worked with :) It is too easy to cut through their fanboy Facebook pages of "look at me I'm a good corporate citizen" rubbish being "visible" to their managers on their facebook streams :) I just put out there the FACTS. Google and Apple won he mobile race, Microsoft lost, keep also in mind they have tried a few times, (CE, Zune, Windows Mobile and now Windows Phone and in future the WinRT core). They have lost it, they are probably at least 3 years behind the rest, due to their "reorganisations" and "realignements". balmer is not the right person to run the mobile team, he took direct control of it, and we all know (even inside MS) that he is one bitter, vengful person and that is blinding him, he has NO CLUE about the mobile market at all and especially the field/embedded market, never mind the future wearables.

MS employees had a Windows mobile phone free, it was god aweful, we only cared about the free phone calls :) In fact a lot of employee's just used droid or iOS. If you walk around the MS offices you will see a LOT of droids, iPods, iPads, iPhones. That again speaks volumes.

Do you think employees of MS care? hell no, (I know, I was there for a decade), all they care about is getting their "level" in their CSP (career stage profile), this is pretty much mandatory to follow the promotion "curve" and get your level. That is the NUMBER ONE THING on a Microsoft's employees mind, and rightly so, if you want to work there, you have to level up. And that is what is destroying the company, along with Balmers ignorance, arrogance, vengfulness and bitterness and it shows in his running of the mobile team (and in fact the company as a whole). Then again he doesn't care, as long as he gets his millions of shares each year and expense account.

Thanks for the info.

Are there living bricks ?

Actually had this phone for a few hours now and I like it very much. I have found some great apps that do pretty much all I want and more. I was bit worried about browsing the net via windows phone due to adds and the likes but windows explorer on the phone has a built in ad-block which is ace. Not seen a single advert once while browsing. I don't know why all browsers do not have this as standard now a days instead of having to download 3rd party ad blockers.

Anyway I will be up for downloading any free EVE apps for the windows phone. SO feel free to message me if you have any.

WP has the potential to be much more then it is, but the devs are being stunted. I love my phone, but untill they make the devs happy and alow the platform to foster ingenuity like android does we will not get the app base.

We will see with win phone 8, I'm sitting back with cautious optimism

I'm using EveLet, its simple app that lets you add pilots and follow skilling/isk/market orders + displays eve news.