“Women With Android Apps” Series: Silicon Sisters

In the last post in this series, we met Mélanie of Second Gear Games. Now, we will meet the ladies with “the first female owned and run video game studio in Canada” – Silicon Sisters Interactive! They have developed a game for young teens called School26, which you can learn more about in this interview. What is School26 and how did you come up with the idea for it? Brenda Gershkovitch, CEO, Silicon Sisters: May 6 2010. I was at the Vancouver Video Game conference listening...

“Women With Android Apps” Series: Mélanie

In our last post in this series, we met Jennifer Wong of Alt-12 games. Today, we meet another game developer, Mélanie Dompierre of Second Gear Games, makers of “Bubble Defense Free”, “Tropical Fish Shop”, and “Shopper’s Paradise”, to name a few. Hi Mélanie! I see you have many successful apps in the Android Market, but for this interview, let’s focus on one you just updated in the market in November of this year, “Shopper’s Paradise...

“Women With Android Apps” Series: Jennifer

Earlier this week, we published an interview with Dora, creator of the JellyPlanner app. Today, we introduce Jennifer Wong from Alt-12 Apps. I thought it was interesting to learn from her website that Alt-12 was named after the keystrokes (Alt+1,2) used to create the female symbol: ♀ Alt-12 has been publishing apps for women since 2009, and now you can learn all about the creation of their app Pink Pad from Jennifer, who designed it! Hi, Jennifer! Can you tell us about the Pink Pad app and...

“Women With Android Apps” Series: Dora

You may remember back when we featured Diana Luckevich, developer of TextDooDad as one of the few female Android developers at the time. Well, luckily since the Android Market has grown, so have the number of women that develop apps for our devices. We have a special series this week in which we’ll introduce you to several of them. First up is Dora, a European developer who started CheerApps and just released her first app, “Jelly Planner” to the Android Market in November....

Developer Interview: TextDooDad

Diana Luckevich is the developer of “TextDooDad“, an Android app that provides data and analysis of your text messages and some additional capabilities. Don’t miss Ellie’s unbiased review of TextDooDad here. I sent Diana some questions, and she was nice enough to tell us all about her experience with programming and releasing an Android app, which you can read below. This is our first in what I hope will become a long series of profiles of female Android developers. If...

Celebrity “Women With Droids” – Gina Trapani

I hope to eventually invite some well-known women with droids to guest-post on this blog, but until we’re all up and running smoothly, I’ll just link to other blog posts by/about them! First up, tech-guru Gina Trapani’s interview with “Android and Me” blog. Enjoy! Bonus: Tweets from Gina Trapani about Android and Blog Posts by Gina Trapani about Android Thumbnail photo by bre pettis on...