It's always nice to be recognized for one's achievements. Seven Austrian app developers were honored today by receiving the Mobile Award Austria (MAwA) in different topical categories from Commerce to Tourism or Health. Amongst them is a also a Creating Apps member, you might have read about here before.

Our Wiki has got a new tutorial today, explaining you how to get the Android phone's location - either via GPS or via WiFi. Read on to learn about LocationManager, LocationListener and more.

Have you checked our Wiki recently? We have added a new Android tutorial guiding you through properly using the SlidingDrawer widget. That particular widget is not used very often, although popular apps like the one of Facebook do.

We have two Nokia Lumia 800 to give away. As we somehow had to decide whom to give it to, we have asked you to send us development problems you encountered and solutions you have found for them. Now we have decided on our two winners and bring to you the best development stories of the participants. Definitely worth reading!

Creating Apps aims to offer developers an additional benefit by providing you opportunities for app contracts. Today, we bring to you a new bid inviation. iOS developers can send in their bid for a new iPhone & iPad app.

Are you learning how to develop for Android? If yes, you might want to check out our Wiki. Our newest tutorials describe how to create an iPhone-like TabBar at the bottom of the screen as well as how to unzip files from the SD card.

You've gotta be quick if you want to get one of the two brand new Nokia Lumia 800 devices Creating Apps is giving away. Deadline is December 6th. What you have to do to get it? Well, the first step is to click here.

Our Wiki just got two additions for (beginning) Android developers. The tutorials show you how to list the files on the SD card in your Android devices as well as how to let your user know that there is some work in progress by displaying a progress bar with AsyncTask.

Want to start Android developing? We have added two new tutorials to our wiki, targeting beginning Android developers. The tutorials will show you how to develop a simple app displaying text („Hello World") as well as how to create custom buttons.

Creating Apps is giving away two brand new Nokia Lumia 800 devices. Participate in our lottery and be the first to hold the first Nokia Windows Phone device ever in your hands before the rest of the world. Just participate in our giveaway and get the chance to win one of two Nokia Lumia 800 devices.

As you remember from last month, we had the Smart Phone app as our monthly featured application. Its maker, 19-year-old Dominic Bartl was nice enough to give us an insight into his work and came up with a tutorial about ListViews in Android.

We would like to learn more about the working reality of developers. So here's a question to those developers amongst you who do contract work: How many contracts did you acquire in the last 12 months?

Creating Apps is happy to let you know that we will post bid invitations for app creation by external companies from now on. Interested in a new customer? Then have a look at our first bid invitation to create a comprehensive mobile app for a large logistics company.

My infocenter is the hub for all your account related actions. Here you can edit your account details and invite friends to Creating Apps. You will also find the latest news and announcements about the platform.

10 members of Creating Apps won an Xperia PLAY, the world's first PlayStation® certified smartphone - which can be officially and easily bootloader-unlocked by the way. Wanna know who won? Oh, and as one of the winners was right around the corner, we brought him the device in person and talked to him about his AR app SOLight. Check out the video.