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Developing mobile applications for location based services (LBS) is a challenge.
If developing for Android or BlackBerry you have a great IDE (Eclipse), but there are many traps you can tap in developing LBS Applications.

I'll give you some hints what you have to watch:

* GPS or Geolocation
* valid Coordinates
* Waypoints, Tracks and Routes
* mastering KML at mobile device
* providing KML Services via OSGi and JAK at server

short demo how EclipseRT (Equinox, Jetty) are used as an easy to setup server to provide LBS services to different mobile platforms

Q&A

If you're developing Business Applications in many cases you have requirements to push data to mobile devices.

You're in luck: most mobile platforms (Android, iOS, WP7, BlackBerry) provide Push Service SDK's and you can use Eclipse PlugIns to develop for Android or BlackBerry using Eclipse.

Unfortunately all Push Service SDK's have different API, Features, Quality of Service (QoS)

I'll explain the differences in detail and what this means for your workflows. I'll also tell you (and demonstrate live) how Eclipse Projects and OSGi can be used to simplify this.

Lately there has been a flurry of model-based approaches to mobile-app development, including projects based on Eclipse. Like Itemis' impressive "Applause" DSL, most of these aim for cross-platform support. Many build GUIs using the native UI components for the "real feel".

But when it comes to the details, there is no way around actually diving into Objective-C and the Cocoa Touch frameworks. Details are important, especially so on the iOS platform. Users expect the best possible user experience. If subtle animations help usability, there is no reason not to use them. Or say you need a catchy interactive GUI element like a wheel of fortune; it surely should rattle and decelerate realistically. This is where model-based, one-size-fits-all approaches invariantly arrive at their limit; some earlier, others later – but eventually they all do.

This talk gives you an idea of how developing for the iOS platform is different from the Eclipse development we all know and love. Different, but not bad, or worse, or scary. Words like dynamic typing and monkey-patching can sound intimidating, but in the end it's really no less scary than "abstract public static void ViewPortAdvisorFactoryManager"…

Getting started with Android is simple. This session presents the basic architecture of Android, demonstrates the Android Development Tools (ADT) for Eclipse, and guides the audience through the base concepts like Activities, Services, Broadcast Receiver and ContentProvider.

During this presentation an Android application is live developed. This application demonstrates the creation of a simple drawing program and how to track the current device position via incoming calls.

After this session the audience should feel comfortable to start developing own Android Applications.