GPS tracker app celebrates 10 years in the app store with a new update
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
When it comes to the world of GPS tracking, the Chirp GPS app stands out for its user-friendliness. It has ranked highly in the app store since 2011, and has consistently consistently set the bar higher for GPS tracking apps. They've just rolled out a new update that simplifies the process of tracking friends, belongings, and shared adventures even further.
GPS T...
Nintendo Switch error monitoring from Bugsnag
Wednesday, December 28, 2022 by Richard Harris
SmartBear announced that its error monitoring and app stability tool Bugsnag now supports the Nintendo Switch system, giving gaming studios visibility across platforms and devices. With Bugsnag, developer teams can achieve better collaboration, faster deployments, and more stable applications to ensure every end-user has a next-level experience. Earlier this year, Smart...
Why an App is Teslas CX weapon
Monday, May 17, 2021 by Richard Harris
Recently General Motors announced that the company wants to end production of all diesel and gasoline-powered cars, trucks, and SUVs by 2035 and shift its entire new fleet to electric vehicles. Now, with GM trying to be as green as Tesla, eyeing the automotive maker as a key competitor, what will it take to win out? A superior app, explains Subrah Iyar, former founder o...
Best practices to avoid being removed from the Apple App Store
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 by Richard Harris
For any app developer, developing a top-ranking app on Apple’s App Store would be a career highlight. Yet thanks to Apple doubling down on user privacy, even popular apps like Facebook have been taken offline. For developers, it’s increasingly important to stay abreast of rapidly-changing privacy, compliance and policy changes to avoid a similar fate -the dr...
To make a progressive web app or not
Thursday, September 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
Mobile users are spending 80 to 94 percent of their mobile use time in apps, so you’d think the mobile web would be a thing of the past right? But the average mobile user also visits 100 different websites each month, and only half of all mobile users don’t download any new apps during that same period.
In order to achieve the speed and ease of use p...
App naming best practices
Friday, January 26, 2018 by Grant Polachek
Choosing an intriguing and sticky name for your app at times can be the hardest part of the whole development process. You want it to call out to potential users, be unique, yet timeless. When someone is looking in your category for an app, you want it to standout as the best app name amongst the rest. Here are a few recommended dos and don'ts when naming your...
Lucktastic launches the Total Eclipse Showdown on their app
Friday, August 18, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Lucktastic, a pure play, free app and entertainment destination that is reimagining winning experiences, rewards, and discovery has today announced an exciting new in-app event in honor of the upcoming solar eclipse. The "Total Eclipse Showdown" event starts Friday, August 18th and will run until the end of the eclipse. The ‘Showdown” culminates with a dramatic Facebook...
New Pictionary app lets users sketch on the go
Thursday, April 27, 2017 by Richard Harris
Etermax, the creator of Trivia Crack and Aworded Crack, announced the launch of the digital app version of Pictionary, based on the classic draw-n-guess board game, in partnership with Mattel. The mobile app will launch on April 27, surprising users with an all new way to play.The new Pictionary app will include features inspired by the classic top selling draw-n-guess ...
Gamifying an app can help it stand out along with these ideas
Thursday, February 23, 2017 by Richard Harris
Editors note: Guest submission by Hunter Jensen, Founder and CEO of Barefoot SolutionsWith more than 4.2 million smartphone apps in the Apple App and Google Play stores, there’s a lot of software that will never pick up the steam needed to become the next Angry Birds, YouTube, or Snapchat. There is good news, though. If you’re considering building an app from scratch or...
Travelport Hotelzon app gets a facelift with new features
Sunday, February 19, 2017 by Richard Harris
Travelport Hotelzon has upgraded its hotel booking app with the addition of numerous new features and additional content. Designed to meet the increasing consumer-driven demands of the ever-connected corporate traveler, the updated mobile app version of the Hotelzon site enables travelers to easily search, book, amend and cancel hotels whilst on the move and within thei...
HYPR Launches App Blaster Programmatic App Marketing Platform
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 by Richard Harris
HYPR has announced the launch of the App Blaster app marketing platform. The new programmatic influencer marketing solution is designed to help push apps up the download charts by engaging multiple social media accounts concurrently, to post recommendations to download the app.App Blaster leverages HYPR’s Influencer Audience Demographic Engine to identify which social m...
A Recipe for a Best Selling App
Monday, May 16, 2016 by Jim Hansen
The introduction of the smartphone and app stores sparked a revolution for developers, giving them a new platform to provide entertainment, education, tools and so much more to the masses, right at their fingertips. Millions of apps are available today and thousands of new products pop up daily. However, rapid adoption leads to market saturation - how can a consume...
How WildTangent is Shaking Up the Android CPI Market
Monday, September 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
We recently visited with WildTangent’s Sean Vanderdasson to discuss how the company’s platform helps developers achieve Android app installs.The WildTangent network is facilitated by distribution partnerships with many of the world’s top devices manufacturers (OEMs) and mobile operators. The WildTangent network provides the ability for users to choose in one click which...
Amazon Updates Web App Starter Kit for Fire TV
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
Amazon’s Web App Starter Kit for Fire TV is an open source project intended to help developers get up to speed on creating simple media-oriented apps for the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. The Starter Kit provides a basic media app template that is designed for the 10-foot user experience and includes UI controls, support for the Fire TV remote, sample UI compon...
The Best Day to Launch or Market Your iOS App
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 by Richard Harris
So what day is the best day to launch your iOS app or to gain downloads? You have seven chances to get the answer right. And the answer is (drumroll please) … it depends on your type of app. The iOS app download and revenue analysis covered here was derived from a recent research study conducted by Sensor Tower, an app marketing intelligence company. According to a...
Appboy Launches Conversion Tracking to Measure and Improve App Marketing
Friday, January 23, 2015 by Richard Harris
Appboy, which offers a marketing automation platform for app publishers, has recently launched conversion tracking, providing the opportunity to access a more comprehensive view of campaign effectiveness. Conversion tracking provides the ability to set custom campaign goals and monitor the actions users take after receiving a message. The AppBoy platform provide to...
How to Use Personalized Push Notifications to Drive App Usage and Conversions
Wednesday, December 24, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The holiday season is now upon us and all those shiny new devices will soon be unwrapped and activated. You’ve updated your app and are ready for the potential onslaught of new users and those that will revisit your app, now that they have a new device.But are you truly ready? If you’re trying to grow a mobile app, getting new users to download your app isn't enough - y...
Finding a Mobile App Monetization Strategy That Fits Your Business Model
Thursday, December 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Have you ever bought a pair of those socks that say “fits foot sizes 6 – 12”? Really - one sock fits all those sizes? My nephew’s foot size is a 12, mine is an 8, no way is one sock size going to work for both of us.So if it doesn’t work for something as simple as your feet, why do so many app publishers think that “one size fits all” works for monetizing their mobile a...
Avocarrot's New Tool Set Aims to Help Developer's Revenue with Native Advertising
Monday, December 15, 2014 by Richard Harris
Avocarrot recently unveiled its launch of a tool-set for developers that allows the same native ad type of displays (including in-stream ads) that companies like Twitter and Facebook are using for their apps.The product is a technologically advanced tool for mobile native advertising. The product offers premium eCPMs and users get $2 eCPM on average and up to ...
Boom of the healthcare apps
Thursday, December 4, 2014 by Richard Harris
If we take a look at different business verticals that go mobile, healthcare is one that you read a lot about these days. Many companies develop apps to track human body parameters or to allow virtual doctor-patient communication. There are a plethora of apps related to healthcare. But why is this booming industry among the leaders in the mobile ecosystem?
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App Game Kit for Steam Details
Monday, November 24, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
App Game Kit 2 has been released on STEAM. A special promotion by The Game Creators is also being offered where the App Game Kit 2 is available for 33 percent off through November 28th.The Game Creators has launched its App Game Kit (AGK) version 2 allowing anyone to build apps and code quickly using cross platforms. SGK2 was funded by Kickstarter in...
App Previews Will Become More Important Than Screenshots In App Marketing For iOS
Thursday, September 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
iOS 8 is out and along with the plethora of changes for consumers there is a new level of commitment each app developer with an app published should consider. That is creating an App Preview for your app. Hint: These will become the staple of marketing an iOS app very soon.What exactly an "App Preview"? It's essentially a short video presenting a demo of your app to the...
Marmalade to Offer Developers $80,000 in Prizes for Apps Deployed to the Amazon Appstore
Monday, July 21, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Marmalade Technologies is hosting a new weekly promotion with a total prize value of over $80,000. To enter the contest developers can use any Marmalade license, including the free license, to deploy to the Amazon Appstore and enter into the weekly prize draw to win Marmalade and Amazon prizes.Every Marmalade app that is successfully submitted to the Amazon Ap...
LG Launches New webOS TV SDK Developer Site
Monday, July 14, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
LG has launched a new webOS TV Developer Site to provide a one-stop resource center for all developer requirements for webOS TV applications. Developers can learn how to plan, design, develop and publish webOS application for the LG Smart+ TV.About the New WebsiteDevelopers can download and install the webOS TV SDK and set up the development environment. The S...
MediSafe Becomes the First Mobile Health App Android for Wear Smartwatches
Thursday, July 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
MediSafe has become the first mobile health app on Google’s just-announced suite of Android Wear smartwatches. The app offers users the ability to automatically receive two-way sync medication reminders and provides the ability to record medication doses.Users wearing either the LG Android Wear, Samsung Gear Live or Moto 360 smartwatches, who also have the MediSafe...
Conduit Mobile Rebrands App Generating Platform as Como
Monday, May 19, 2014 by Richard Harris
Conduit Mobile is rebranding its mobile app generation platform to the new name Como, which offers a non coding environment to create apps for all major mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, Android, Amazon Kindle Fire, and HTML5).Along with a new name, logo, website, blog, etc, the company is also introducing the Como Console, an all-in-one platform for creating, editing,...
New Report Shows Enterprises Are Concerned With Mobile App Security
Thursday, May 8, 2014 by Richard Harris
Good Technology has released its Q1 2014 Good Mobility Index Report which, among its findings, has identified a trend in the significant increase in activations of complex secure enterprise apps, most notably secure browsing.The report surveys more than 5,000 Good Technology customers including the following sectors: Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturi...
Bit6 Offers Beta Cloud Based Communication Platform for Mobile App Development
Monday, May 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
Bit6 is offering in beta its real-time, cloud-based communications-as-a-service platform that allows developers to add voice/video calling, texting, and multimedia messaging capabilities as a feature to their apps.In addition, Bit6 also provides a suite of application integration modules including Identity Management, Social Map, and Virtual Wallet to help int...
Amazon’s Developer Promotions Console (DPC) Now Offers Discounting Opportunities Across Markets to Drive App Promotions
Monday, May 5, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Amazon’s Developer Promotions Console (DPC) now provides the ability to specify when a developer can discount an app or in-app items.The DPC provides the ability to discount the list price of apps and in-app items to promote an update, take advantage of a holiday or special event, or conduct price elasticity tests. Developers can specify in the DPC when and where these ...
Single Login for Amazon Kindle Fire Will be a Soon for App Developers
Thursday, April 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
No more specific user login credentials! Developers will definitely appreciate this announcement by Amazon that their apps and games that use Login with Amazon on Kindle Fire devices will no longer need to ask users to sign in each time the app is run. Instead, the first time the app is run Login with Amazon will automatically use the account registered to the Kind...
CDW Launches App Marketplace to Connect Enterprises with App Developers
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 by Richard Harris
CDW has launched its new App Marketplace as part of its Total Mobility Management portfolio of services. The CDW App Marketplace is a single, online destination that connects organizations with vetted, proven developers of mobile apps for key business functions such as sales support, customer relationship management, human resources systems and more ...
App Marketing, Stop Throwing Your Money at the Problem
Monday, March 3, 2014 by Inbar Chap
The value of marketing for app developers is undeniable. So
why do so many app developers find it tough to get on board the marketing train
early? It’s natural for the development process to take precedence, but as
competition between apps is strikingly high (Gartner says that 102 billion apps
were downloaded globally in 2013), developers should be fighting harder a...
Orasi to Host Three Webinars for Enterprise App Development
Monday, February 24, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Orasi is hosting three webinars in March designed to help enterprise’s better integrate a mobile strategy. The webinars are free and open to Orasi customers and other organizations who simply would like to learn more about mobile best practices.Best Practices to Ensure Mobile App Success - 3/6/2014Webinar Abstract: Mobile testing is complex. Organizations must embr...
Will New App Monetization Opportunities Arise for Developers from Affectiva’s New Affdex SDK
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Ever since the introduction of the smartphone/smartdevice, one of the most powerful aspects of this technology has been its capability to recognize and react to the environment surrounding it. The inclusion of GPS, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Magnetometer, Proximity Sensor, Camera and more gee whiz tech makes these ubiquitous devices truly worthy of their Star Trek tech r...
App Development Industry 2013: Winners and Losers (And Somewhere in Between)
Sunday, December 29, 2013 by Richard Harris
One of the reasons we launched App Developer Magazine was to help bring some clarity to the big picture of the mobile industry as it relates to app development. And while we feel that we have provided many valuable insights in our first year of publishing, it’s been a lot to wrap our heads around and we plan on doing a better job in 2014. So looking at the big pic...
