Friday, January 14, 2011

Get Sri Lankan Postal Codes to your Etisalat Mobile Phone

Now you can get any Sri Lankan Postal Code (Zip Code) to your Etisalat mobile phone by sending a SMS to 4499 as follows.
POSTCODE<space><CityName>
Example: POSTCODE Kandy
Will Give: Kandy | Postal Code 20000 | Kandy District | Central Province.

Application Developer: Priyantha Weerabadu

Visit : http://apps.appzone.lk/ for more applications

Monday, January 3, 2011

Awaiting the results! Sign-ups are currently frozen. Its time for you to start promoting your applications

Hey Guys!! 


As you all know that submitting your apps for the Intra University Competition has already hit the deadline! Now its time for you to promote your applications and get the highest usage. The winners will be selected on the revenue that they generate for their applications regardless of the app type (on demand/ subscription based). 

Those who have their apps on the site and the USSD menu hurry up and start promoting!! Others please respond to the e-mails that have been sent to you by the AppZone Team and get your applications on the AppZone App Store as soon as possible. Remember, sooner you get your app on live, more the time you get to promote your app and generate revenue!!

Monday, December 27, 2010

Sathathara Gurunnanse of Facebook is now on AppZone!


We Hirantha Weerarthna, Sachith Senarath and Aloka Munasinghe are 3rd year undergraduates of UCSC. We are pleased to go live on AppZone with our second app "Saththara". This is the mobile version of well known "Saththara Gurunnanse" of facebook. Therefore we would like to take this opportunity to thank the developer of the application "Saththara Gurunnanse" on Facebook who is a 1st year student of UCSC.

As Saththara Gurunnanse brought a smile to every one who asked saththara from him we thought that we can reach his fans via mobile. Through this app users can ask saththara from Saththara Gurunnanse and get funny predictions from him. We update our database once a month and we hope to entertain our customers  with this application. 
Users can ask "saththara" by sending <sat><space><CustomerName> to 4499.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

"mCrazies" will be soon on AppZone to cater the needs of all movie crazies out there!


We, Malitha VIraj Mathugama and Madusanka Prasad Mathugama are 4th year undergraduates in University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC). "mCrazies" is the first application we developed as a team based application.


This application provides information about on going movies in famous theaters. In some urgent situations browsing through the internet to get information on the on going movies in theaters becomes so irritative. But getting those information by sending a simple SMS sounds more easier. You don't have to spend time surfing the internet or calling friends to get these information anymore! Just type 

mcraz<space><name of theater 1><space><name of theater 2> and send to 4499 from your Etisalat phone.

Here, name of theater 2 is optional. If user wants to get details of on going movies in more than one theater, then it is possible to type several theater names by leaving a <space> in between each theater name. User will get a SMS in return with the corresponding results for his SMS.

Buy developing these applications we gain knowledge and experiences on new technologies. Any developer would like to feel the excitement when there applications are being used by the general public. Not only that, the recognition and the revenue you get will make you an well known entrepreneur among the other developers. There are untouched problems which we all need a solution to make our lives easier. Its only a matter of thinking about those unsolved problems and coming up with an easy way to solve them. Developers have been provided with all the required materials such as APIs, sample applications, guide lines and support by the AppZone Team. We have the knowledge on programming languages. So what is needed is to put these two together to develop a well demanded application which has a good business logic behind it. That's how both of us came up with the idea about "mCrazies" app which is also a very simple solution to cater the people who are  always on alert about the movies.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

MyMed comes to AppZone from an undergraduate of UCSC


I am Malith VIraj Mathugama, currently a 4th year undergraduate in University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC). 

My application "MyMed"on AppZone is to obtain details about well known doctors private consultation. The application provides relevant information about a particular doctor's private visiting hospital name, time, relevant hospital's hotline number and the charge for the doctor. 


To get the service type mymed<space><1st doctor's name><space><2nd doctor's name> and send to 4499

The 2nd doctor's name is optional, user can type one or many doctors names in single message and retrieve details according to the message sent.

By developing this application I gained experience of working with 3rd party software platforms and integration of individual application to a 3rd party simulator. Not only that but I also gathered an extension knowledge about execution and data structural hierarchy in server side. AppZone team provided me all the guidelines to overcome challenges I had to face during the time I was implementing my application. They provided me contact numbers to share my problems and get involve relavent authorized persons to slove them in an efficient manner. Finally they always kept asking the status of the application and that really motivated me to complete this app. The guidance they provided made me easier to reach my destination.



The way the apps on AppZone are being promoted and the prizes they are ready to give out for the best applications of the competition made me focus on this development. 

Currently there are many good applications on the AppZone Appstore. In my point of view, the idea or the concept is the most significant here rather than the development process, because these apps are basically based on business aspect. It is very important to have the attractiveness and a demand for your app. In order to gain an user satisfaction, application must address a simple solution for a existing unsolved (may be solved partially but not in an efficient way for many mobile users). Such kind of concepts are out there. You only have to think a bit in the user's perspective. 


As a user and a developer I'm very glad to see such apps are available on AppZone and they are ready to make the, available. My app is also a very simple solution for e-chanelling since e-chanelling concept needs internet access. This provides a solution for those who do not have access to the internet. Mobile world always make things possible in the easiest way. Be a part of those who provides a solution and a better service for the mobile users. 

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Who's on their way to win the iPad?? Check out the latest stats....



We have almost reached the competition deadline....01st of January 2011.
Hurry up guys....Get on board and try to make your university be proud of you! 

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