Think you’ve made a smart app? Today is your last chance to optimize your app using the Application Resource Optimizer (ARO) and enter the Smarter App Challenge. In this mobile app challenge, the GSMA has partnered with AT&T and other carriers to offer a fantastic prize to three developers that make apps that aren’t just innovative, but efficient as well.

Want to find out more about what happened at the Miami Mobile App Hackathon? 

Whether you are a business/marketing person or a developer you need to come to the next AT&T Mobile App Hackathon. These events are excellent opportunities to gain insight into the minds of developers, network with your potential future team members as well as land your future job. How you ask?

Have an app idea or need an app built for your business?

This weekend's AT&T Mobile App Hackathon in Miami is being produced by the AT&T Developer Program and Apigee. Attendees (technical and nontechnical) will build apps/mobile apps, get fed, compete for prizes across different categories, and, most importantly, meet new people and scout for teammates to work on new or current projects. Our hackathon will introduce the latest cutting-edge tools to help deploy your own app with a website backend, fully hosted in the cloud.

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Interested in finding out what happened at the AT&T and Facebook Mobile App Hackathon in Palo Alto this last weekend?

We’re incredibly excited to announce that we have nearly a dozen events and contests scheduled for the next two months! Everything from epic hackathons with over $20K in prizes to webcasts where we’ll walk you through using our new Speech API. We’ll also be attending several conferences including CTIA and Uplinq.

If you haven’t yet been to one of our hackathons, we really encourage you to check one out. They’re a great way to meet new people and learn about the latest cutting edge tools. Winning cash and prizes isn’t bad either!

The AT&T Developer Program is constantly looking for new ways to help developers improve their apps. Today we wanted to let you know about a set of guidelines recently created by GSMA that documents some possible improvements that can increase an app’s efficiency and ultimately improve user experience.

The upcoming Mobile App Hackathon in Palo Alto has completely sold out!

This special Mobile App Hackathon, produced by the AT&T Developer Program, Facebook, and WAC is designed for attendees (technical & non-technical) to learn more about HTML5, build HTML5 mobile apps, get fed, and compete for some jaw dropping prizes. Prizes include $20,000 for the best overall app and a special prize provided by Facebook for the team with the best social app. To help you build a winning app we will introduce you to the latest cutting edge tools so that you can easily deploy your own HTML5 app with a website backend, fully hosted in the cloud.

Even if you are new to HTML5, we will have live developer support from local senior developers as well as from AT&T and Facebook to help you code like a pro.

Interested in attending a Mobile App Hackathon? Check our event page for a full list of upcoming events.

Follow @ATTDeveloper and @MobileHackathon on Twitter for updates and info about future hackathons.

Simply share your challenges and victories on our forum and you’ll be entered to win a device! We would also like to hear from you if you have feedback and/or suggestions about how we can make the tool better.

First time hearing about the Application Resource Optimizer (ARO)? ARO is a free diagnostic tool for all members of the AT&T Developer Program (sign in or join now). It analyzes the performance of your mobile applications and can help your app run faster and smarter by providing recommendations to help optimize your mobile application's performance, speed, network impact and ultimately battery utilization.

Register today for this free webcast on Thursday, April 26th about how optimized mobile JavaScript libraries give your HTML5 hybrid apps native performance, across platforms and enter to win an AT&T Smartphone!

Join us for this free webcast to learn how to get results for your hybrid application fast using the jqMobi framework. We will discuss how you can benefit from a small, lightweight JavaScript framework, and explore the jqMobi selector tools, the jqMobi User Interface, and the plug-ins available to extend the jqMobi framework.

All actual attendees can enter to win an AT&T Smartphone. The winner will be notified via email after the Webcast.

When: Thursday, April 26, 10:00—11:00 AM Pacific Time

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