Do you want to win bada developers challenge? Do you want to sell your app in Samsung’s app store? If your answer is yes, I will tell you the what kind of app you need to build to achieve this. To make you bada app popular, you have to the need of the user. It is the user that makes an app popular. Hence choosing to build right kind of app gives you an extra edge in bada developer challenge. When you feed the hunger of the customers, your app will become popular and be in demand.

The success of a bada developer is not only in creating bug-free apps, but it is also in choosing the right apps. This is why a successful bada  developer should be aware of apps market. According to a recent survey conducted in Europe, 54% of those people willing to download apps would pay money for downloading them. This present a very unique market for developers to earn money. Hence it is necessary to build apps that people would like to download.

According to the research, travel and navigation apps topped the list with 34% of people to use them. The photography (12%), work (11%) and shopping (9%) apps followed the list. Another interesting find from the survey is that women were found to be highly attracted to certain types of applications. Gaming applications are more ranked more popular among women than men, with 705 of women surveyed saying that they use them as opposed to 57% of men. Better think twice before creating a war game. Photography apps were also in high demand by women with nearly half  (49%) saying they use them daily. As a developer this finding opens a good opportunity. Nearly 6 out of 10 women (57%) said they use apps to enrich their family life, which was surprisingly taken over by ..
…social networking apps. So family does come first before friends.

Among the apps that users want to see developed, educational apps topped the list with 18% wanting to see it developed. Work and travel related apps followed the list with 17% and 13% respectively. The reason consumers want to see them developed is since they feel there are still no right app in these categories. This is were we need to use our skill as a good developer. If you could develop a good app that would satisfy users, you will be a winner.

This post is dedicated to the newcomers of Samsung Bada development. This post will explain the basics of being a bada developer.

Ever since Samsung introduced bada developers challenge which involves the announcement of various prizes, there has been an excitement to be a bada developer. Many people even with zero development knowledge want to lay their hands on this. It is for them this post is intended to be.

The first to being a bada developer is to join bada developer site. When you first join the site you will given the necessary tools for being a developer. Samsung provides bada SDK to develop bada. Samsung releases new SDK from time to time. So its necessary to keep update with that.

It is important to understand some basic terms in software developing before entering this arena. So I am going to explain the basics.
To begin with lets look into what SDK and IDE are. We hear from time to time Samsung releasing new SDK for bada. So what it SDK? It is Software Development Kit intended to provide the necessary environment to develop the software. It may consists of API or sophisticated hardware to meet the required conditions. In bada doesn’t involve hardware. API or Application Programming Interface provides the necessary to communicate with different software programs. It may consist of some files for necessary files to provide the necessary interface. Still confused? It means that it provides you a better environment to build the software without the entire knowledge of the machine language.

After learning SDK, hopefully we have managed to develop a software. Now its time to move on to test and debug the software. This is where IDE comes in. IDE or Integrated Development Environment helps the developer to debug the software in various testing environments. With IDE it is possible to determine any problems in the developed software before submitting it. With the developed software and testing with IDE hopefully we can manage to develop a bada app. All the best to every one who try. Samsung has 300 Wave phones to give out to top developers in simulation round. So don’t just sit there go and make a bada app.

After understanding what bada is we have to look into the need for bada developers. Samsung bada being a newbie, requires a lot of work to make it more user friendly and to have a nice user interface(UI). Samsung bada includes a new UI framework that supports the next generation Samsung touch UI. The main UI delivers simplicity and ease, without decreasing usage efficiency. The UI framework introduces an open-ended evolutionary innovation from the current touch UI to leverage better user experiences.There is the need of bada developers. Bada developers promises to make bada the best smartphone OS. It is a bada developer who prepares apps, games etc for bada OS. Besides Samsung has announced prizes worth $ 2,700,000 (USD) to the best developers. So why not try it?

 
Who can be a Bada Developer?
Anyone can be a bada developer, at least in theory. For those with at least a slight developing history, it is a good place to be in.

But if you have no idea how to develop a software,you need to do some homework before entering this arena. First you need to know how to develop a software. So you need to know what SDK and IDE stands for. SDK means software development kit. According to Wikipedia, it is typically a set of development tools that allows for the creation of applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, or similar platform. For starters, it means that it has the required files to develop the software. So now what is IDE? It is integrated development environment. It is required to debug and test the developed software. So now you know what SDK and IDE is, the obvious question is where to get it. This part is easy since you can get from bada developers site ( http://developers.bada.com). But first you need to join the site, which is free. There are two modes, basic and partner. You are automatically logged to basic when you first register. You can download the development tools from the site. To find out each step in the developing after getting your hands on the tools, you can refer to the tutorials given in the site. You must know that the information given here are basic and to know more you should need to do the practicals. After developing your app, you can test in simulation. Then you can send it to the simulation test and hopefully win that Wave phone.So why not try being a bada developer?