Dear Developer,

The mobile apps business is still in its infant stage, but it's growing at a rate beyond anybody's expectations. More and more developers and entrepreneurs are jumping on the bandwagon literally by the days. But inspite of that, even some of the top investors believe that the mobile business is still underhyped. And you've must heard the news of the acquisition of Instagram by Facebook for a handsome $1B deal. Not to mention, the enterprise market is virtually unexplored yet.

We're heading into a BOOM and you don't want to MISS it!

But with so many apps now in the market, how can you keep your apps above the fray? The answer is very simple.

QUALITY.

People loves Quality product. If you develop high quality app that solve people's problems, they will always pick you among your competitions. But developing high quality apps has it's own challenges: it takes more time, it requires high developers' productivity, it needs thorough testing, and it can become costly, which in the end can affect your bottomline.

So what's your option to develop a high-quality app and at the same time:

• Improve developer productivity
• Save development time and speed-up the Time-To-Market
• Cut cost, save money, and maximize revenues
• Not reinvent the wheel

The answer is not new. It's the same solution that make the software business exploded for the desktop and other platforms.

HIGH-QUALITY COMPONENTS.

Using high-quality components effectively to build your apps will definitely boost the quality, robustness, and performance of your apps, without having to reinvent the wheel which means easier development, faster delivery, less maintenance, and in the end: HAPPY users.

More and more developers understand and make use of the advantages of using high-quality components to build their apps. As a result, the number of mobile component marketplace, where developers can buy and sell components, is also growing.

DroidUX is the leading component provider for the Android platform. The DroidUX(tm) UI Component Library offers you a set of more than 50 top-end high-quality components, and the number keeps growing, to help developers deliver high-quality apps. We're proud to have helped our customers deliver high-end mobile experience to their users.

We have dedicated our time and efforts to innovate and keeps improving our components so that more high-quality, high-performing and highly responsive apps can be created, especially for the Android platform. And with the coming major version upgrade, we're forced to restructure our product offerings and pricing plan (we're not hyping, just stating the facts :-)

However, since we've promised you that we'll offer a discount to our products, we're now very pleased to announce the Limited Offer of 10% discount for our Professional Pack Subscription before we introduce our new pricing plan and product offering.

This might well be your ONLY chance to get the BEST PRICE to receive our BEST product offering, ie. the Professional Pack Subscription. With the Pro Pack, you'll get our complete set of components and you'll get access to our Portal for support and access to beta and other premium content.

If you're serious in developing high-quality apps and delivering high-end mobile experience for your users, you really DON'T WANT to MISS this GREAT offer.

DON'T DELAY, ACT NOW!

The offer ends on 05/20/2012.

This might be your ONLY chance to get the BEST PRICE!

Happy developing!!

Kind regards,

DroidUX Team.

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the latest release of DroidUX UI component library version 1.5.

Thanks for all the feedback that we've received, requesting features that you'd like to see the most to be added into our products.  We really value our customers feedbacks.

In this release we introduce two new categories of widgets, and some other new widget and excellent features.

The first category of widgets is the Lists widgets.  We have so many requests for this type of widgets, and understandably so, considering that the list widget is one of the most used type of widget in mobile applications.  The Android SDK comes with a powerful ListView widget, however it misses some of the features that are becoming more common in the modern and connected apps, such as the simplicity to work with web images, the built-in capability to load data on-demand, and other powerful design pattern, such as the "pull-to-refresh" feature, popularised by great apps such as the Twitter, Pulse, and others.  The new DuxListView makes it extremely easy to implement those features with just few lines of codes. And this is just a start.  We are actively and continuously innovating and will add exciting new widgets and features for the Lists in the future releases.

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the latest release of DroidUX UI component library version 1.3.

In this release we're focusing on adding componets that help developers to design for responsiveness.  One of the most used UI controls/widgets to increase the perceived responsiveness of applications are the progress widgets.  This type of UI controls keep the users informed while the app is working hard on the background, thereby increasing the users' patience in waiting for the results, which have the effects of improving the app perceived responsiveness.  In addition to that, research has shown  that some visual tricks/illusions can further increase the perceived speed/responsiveness of the application without changing/increasing the actual performance/respond time of the app.  

Therefore we've added new category of widgets in the library: the Progress widgets.

Just like about any other Android enthusiasts, we are very excited with the just released long-awaited upgrade to the Android OS, the Ice Cream Sandwich.  And if you haven't read the well-written piece by Joshua Topolsky of the interview with Android’s Head of User Experience Matias Duarte, in which he described the evolving design philosophy of Android user experience, we certainly recommend that you take the time to read it.  It's well worth your time.

Now that the latest SDK has been released, we have tested the DroidUX components for compatibility with the Ice Cream Sandwich.  Mind you that we tested only on emulator since we don't have access to the real device yet.

We are very happy to report that all of our components are fully compatible with the latest version of the Android OS, with only one very minor issue.  We have fixed the issue and will be included in the upcoming release of the DroidUX library.