Our 10th anniversary survey officially launched as of yesterday 15/10/2015. The National Trends Survey is completely updated – with newer questions concerning cloud, IoT, mobile, and desktop trends for the last 6 months. We’ve added free prize categories like the Developer Benchmarks & Country Scorecards – making the survey process that more enjoyable for all our participants. These are designed to help developers a) compare themselves with other devs from their country/region and b) see how their country compares to other parts of the world.   New surveys come with new goals, that’s why the VisionMobile team is pushing for even wider reach this time around – specifically 15,000+ developers. We want to make sure that the free report we give to the developer community contains the freshest of insights. Bear in mind that the survey duration is 6 weeks. If you’re a developer, help yourself and contribute to this research . Thinking of promoting? Please  get in touch with us .

Our Senior Business Analyst Stijn Schuermans , flies to Thesaloniki on September 10th for Greece’s first-ever droidcon. Stijn, who has been extensively researching IoT since 2012, is ready to share all his latest insights on the Internet of Things and the world of wearables. Droidcon Greece is a two-day event consisting of many Android leaders, presentations, hands-on hackathons, tech expos, and much more. For more info on how to get a ticket and special purchasing opportunities, click here . It’s your chance to see the droid eco-system from up close. Questions or comments? Email me.

We just recently partnered with mobile-markter Celltick to produce our latest free report – Global Trends in Android Use. Our collaboration with Celltick taps into Android handset usage data from around the world. The report’s data shows how handsets from different manufacturers are used differently, and how regional variations in Android deployments are impacting the success of both software and services. This report examines how often users glance at their Android screens, which applications they have installed, and what networks they’re using to keep them connected. Click here to download Global Trends in Android Use.

We recently published our new report “Cloud and Desktop Developer Landscape”. We extracted data from our 9th edition Developer Economics survey, which reached over 13,500 respondents from 149+ countries, tracking developer experiences across platforms, revenues, apps, languages, tools, APIs, segments and regions. Find out more about what applications cloud and desktop developers are creating and how they are creating them.

VisionMobile’s CEO, Andreas Constantinou will be speaking at the Webit.Festival in Sofia on April 20. He’ll be discussing “The Era of Developers as Business Model Extenders” Digital incumbents from Amazon to Xiaomi are redefining globalisation using ecosystems, business models, and products that break industry boundaries. Andreas Constantinou will explain how these incumbents rely on developers to extend products and business models across industries, from communications to insurance.

Wondering what 8,000 developers and 185,000 applications reveal about the future of the CPT market? The recently published “Cross-Platform Tools 2015” examines the pros and cons of top cross-platform tools such as Cordova, Xamarin, and Unity. Get an understanding of which tools are winning, what developers are using these tools for, and why they choose them to begin with. This is a close-up into developer attitudes and a sneak-peak of what’s to come in cross-platform development. Find out more:  https://www.visionmobile.com/product/cross-platform-tools-2015/

Open Source in the Internet of Things is our new report and part of IoT report series. 3,700 Internet of Things developers answered questions regarding this issue in our 10th edition Developer Economics survey : How mainstream is open source in the Internet of Things? Is it just for hobbyists and idealists, or is there more to it than that? Which developer demographics use it and why? How can I make sense of the hundreds of open source, open hardware, and open data licenses that are out there? Should your project be open or closed? How can you use open source to achieve commercial success? The report provides developer program managers with objective data-backed insights on the use of open source technology by IoT developers and helps them to manage its use in their projects. Find out more about the key questions that this report answers.

What are developers expecting from Developer Programs these days, and which companies are successfully delivering? Our recent Developer Programs Benchmarking Report answers both of these questions + thoroughly compares what top players like Twitter, Facebook & Amazon are doing to stand out.  Data has been gathered from over 13,500 developers and across 149 countries.  Find out who is succeeding and who is failing with Developer Programs Benchmarking 2015. More info here.