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How to make testing apps easier using HeadSpin

Application Testing

How to make testing apps easier using HeadSpin


  • Tuesday, January 8, 2019
  • By Richard Harris

It's a daunting task just keeping up with mobile operating system updates and making sure your apps test successfully on the new platform. HeadSpin is aiming to make that easier for developers, and with a recent raise of $20M, app developers should t...


Finding bugs in code through better QA

Application Testing

Finding bugs in code through better QA


  • Monday, January 7, 2019
  • By Derek Choy

Finding the bugs in your app code can be tricky. That's why businesses are investing more than a quarter of their IT budgets to QA. Good QA metrics is critical to retaining users, and without it, you’re making these investment decisions in the dark. ...


Unity releases gameplay frequency report

Game Development

Unity releases gameplay frequency report


  • Saturday, January 5, 2019
  • By Richard Harris

From Unity developers who opted to share their analytics, a final report of Unity games' player statistics nationwide has been released, showing the most popular games, as well as how many millions of hours were spent playing Unity games....


Implementing AI technology while overcoming legacy systems

Artificial Intelligence

Implementing AI technology while overcoming legacy systems


  • Friday, January 4, 2019
  • By Jason Cottrell

Tackling artificial intelligence systems in your business can be tricky when there is legacy software to overcome. Here is some advice on implementing AI carefully without totally unraveling your old systems....


Commercial vs open source for app monitoring

Analytics

Commercial vs open source for app monitoring


  • Wednesday, January 2, 2019
  • By Richard Harris

In a conversation with Stela Udovicic, we chat about the importance of performing analytics early in an application's development cycle, as well as the pros and cons in choosing commercial or open source monitoring techniques within your cloud-native...


What game developers can learn from Fortnite's rise

Game Development

What game developers can learn from Fortnite's rise


  • Friday, December 28, 2018
  • By Richard Harris

Has Fortnite peaked? And why is it that hefty software updates can contribute to decreased gamer loyalty? That's what we seek to find out through a recent conversation with Adrian Wilkins of Limelight Networks. We talk about the challenges that game ...


App localization done right

Business of Apps

App localization done right


  • Thursday, December 27, 2018
  • By Neal Thoms

The decision to localize for a particular market will come down to cold, hard numbers: you research the market as well as you can, and if the return on investment justifies the effort, you go for it....


Transforming industries with photo-enabled apps

VR

Transforming industries with photo-enabled apps


  • Monday, December 24, 2018
  • By Jindou Lee

Though often thought of as consumer technologies, the potential applications of AR and VR in professional settings are diverse. VR is already being used to help train surgeons and pilots, provide virtual tours of listed homes, and create virtual walk...


Cloud technology survey reveals a hybrid cloud future

Cloud Services

Cloud technology survey reveals a hybrid cloud future


  • Sunday, December 23, 2018
  • By Richard Harris

LogicMonitor survey reveals that most organizations are far from a single public cloud, instead engaging with multi-cloud, hybrid and innovative new cloud environments; One third predict hybrid cloud will last for 6 or more years with one in five pre...


Mobile app ad spending predicted to hit $64B by 2020

Marketing & Promotion

Mobile app ad spending predicted to hit $64B by 2020


  • Thursday, December 20, 2018
  • By Richard Harris

The app advertising market is poised to grow at a rapid pace over the coming years, surging 136% from $27.1 billion in 2017 to $64.1 billion in 2020, according to a new market research study by AppsFlyer....


Header bidding is fake news according to app advertising expert

Marketing & Promotion

Header bidding is fake news according to app advertising expert


  • Wednesday, December 19, 2018
  • By Richard Harris

Freddy Friedman from Smaato offers up some explanation on why the companies in the mobile industry are saying they have an in-app header bidding solution, when in fact, they may just be fronting nothing more than mediated auctions....


Gamification can transform your software security program

Security

Gamification can transform your software security program


  • Tuesday, December 18, 2018
  • By Pieter Danhieux

With security often seen as an obstacle in the path of innovation, adhering to project delivery deadlines and staying agile, it can be something of a dirty word in the software industry. However, the cost of a data breach is too great to ignore. Fort...


Open source, Kubernetes, and developers, according to Abby Kearns

Open Source

Open source, Kubernetes, and developers, according to Abby Kearns


  • Monday, December 17, 2018
  • By Richard Harris

As Executive Director of Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby Kearns helms the ecosystem of developers, users, and applications running on Cloud Foundry, and works to drive the Foundation’s vision and grow the open source project. We sat down with Abby to ...


Best gifts for programmers, developers, and nerds 2018

Marketing & Promotion

Best gifts for programmers, developers, and nerds 2018


  • Friday, December 14, 2018
  • By Richard Harris

The best gift ideas for programmers, app developers, designers, and nerds in your circles that are hard to buy for. These suggestions are written by a group of app developers that know what we want!...


Java vs. Kotlin: The raging debate

Android

Java vs. Kotlin: The raging debate


  • Thursday, December 13, 2018
  • By Ashish Parmar

Deciding if you should use Java vs. Kotlin for Android development is a debate that is still fresh with pros and cons on either side. But despite the argument, Kotlin marches on with a strong developer force behind it, replacing regular Java as it st...


Software architecture in 2019

Enterprise

Software architecture in 2019


  • Wednesday, December 12, 2018
  • By Richard Harris

In a recent conversation with Neal Ford, we talk about the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference happening in 2019, and why developers often find themselves as accidental architects, making decisions that span the lifetime of a software project, ...


Good AI starts with good data

Artificial Intelligence

Good AI starts with good data


  • Monday, December 10, 2018
  • By Heather Ames Versace

Creating powerful AI solutions requires that developers must use the right kind of data in order to train the algorithm effectively....


Join us for a free mobile app security threats webinar on Tuesday

Security

Join us for a free mobile app security threats webinar on Tuesday


  • Friday, December 7, 2018
  • By Richard Harris

App Developer Magazine hosts a free webinar on mobile app security with expert Samual Bakken from OneSpan to help developers protect their apps from malware attacks, reverse-engineering, and more....


Key insights into app performance and competition from Adjust

Marketing & Promotion

Key insights into app performance and competition from Adjust


  • Wednesday, December 5, 2018
  • By Richard Harris

Find out how your mobile marketing measures up by using the new Global Benchmarks 2.0 tool from Adjust. Gain insight into how much it typically costs to acquire a user, average CTRs, cost per clicks, and more....


How Pycom wants to help IoT developers

IoT

How Pycom wants to help IoT developers


  • Tuesday, December 4, 2018
  • By Richard Harris

Fred de Haro from Pycom talks about the evolution of IoT development and how his company is helping developers bring their products to the market faster....


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