Resco spol. s r.o. is an IT company with headquarters in Bratislava

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, Slovakia

Slovakia

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 that was founded in 1999 by Radomir Vozar, Eduard Kirchner and Marcel Saffa. Resco operates in the mobile IT industry with its main focus on mobile application development

Mobile application development

Mobile application development is the process by which application software is developed for small low-power handheld devices such as personal digital assistants, enterprise digital assistants or mobile phones...

 tools, applications and games. As of 28/02/2011 the company serves customers from 99 countries.

Developer division

Resco Developer Division specializes in development of user interface controls, libraries and developer tools dedicated to mobile application development

Mobile application development

Mobile application development is the process by which application software is developed for small low-power handheld devices such as personal digital assistants, enterprise digital assistants or mobile phones...

. All products are integrated into Microsoft

Microsoft

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 Visual Studio and allow the cross-platform development of mobile client applications. The company provides technical support for all products.

Applications division

The applications division develops system utilities, multimedia applications and games.

History and development

The applications department is Resco’s eldest division dating to 1999. The developers previously focused on platforms such as Palm OS, Pocket Pc (Standard) and Pocket PC (Professional) known today as Windows Mobile. Blackberry’s RIM OS was not yet included. Applications included Resco Explorer, Resco Photo Viewer, Resco Radio and Resco Audio Recorder, which received awards from PDA journals such as Pocket PC Magazine . In 2004 Resco published their first application for Nokia’s Symbian OS (Resco Photo Viewer for Symbian). The genesis and growing popularity of new mobile platforms in 2009 and 2010 has become a motivation for Resco to completely change the company's heading and strategy. The development on four former mobile platforms was stopped and at the end of the year 2010 Resco introduced their first application for Android and Windows Phone 7 (Resco Radio). All of the Resco’s applications for Windows Mobile, Symbian OS and Palm OS are still being sold.

Current focus

Currently, Resco’s application division focuses on two main smartphone mobile platforms: Android OS & Windows Phone 7.

Applications

Resco Explorer is the company's primary application. It works as a file explorer, task manager, network browser, ftp explorer, zipper and viewer with limited support for social networks. The first version was released in 2001. Now it is owned by more than 100,000 mobile users worldwide. The last update is dated on September 7, 2010. Resco Explorer is available for Windows Mobile and Palm OS only.

Photo Manager (formerly Photo Viewer) is the company's second application first released in 2003. The application works on Windows Mobile, Symbian and Palm OS devices.

Resco Radio was first released in 2006 for Windows Mobile. At the end of 2010 the Resco team released versions for Android and Windows Phone 7. The application can play internet radio streams, record, and display lyrics.

Resco Keyboard Pro is available only for Windows Mobile and replaces the device�s built-in keyboard. The application is being sold mainly for companies whose employers use Windows Mobile devices for work.

See also

• Mobile application development
  Mobile application development
  Mobile application development is the process by which application software is developed for small low-power handheld devices such as personal digital assistants, enterprise digital assistants or mobile phones...
  
  
• .NET Compact Framework
  .NET Compact Framework
  The Microsoft .NET Compact Framework is a version of the .NET Framework that is designed to run on resource constrained mobile/embedded devices such as personal digital assistants , mobile phones, factory controllers, set-top boxes, etc...
  
  
• .NET Compact Framework controls
  .NET Compact Framework controls
  -Overview:The Microsoft .NET Compact Framework is a sub-library of .NET framework. It simplifies the mobile application development of smart devices. These are to a large extent limited by the screen size, CPU performance or memory capacity. .NET compact framework takes some of the controls and...
  
  
• Mono (software)
  Mono (software)
  Mono, pronounced , is a free and open source project led by Xamarin to create an Ecma standard compliant .NET-compatible set of tools including, among others, a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime....