Fake app reviews impact developers more than you think
Thursday, June 29, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
Developers are well aware that a significant portion of online reviews for products and services, including those on popular platforms like Amazon, eBay, and TripAdvisor, are in fact fake. The issue of fake app reviews has become an increasingly pressing concern. These deceptive reviews have wide effects on both developers and consumers alike, significantly impacting th...
No code mobile app developer lands from Pocketfied
Thursday, January 20, 2022 by Richard Harris
Welcome to the seamless new world of mobile app development. Pocketfied is live, offering no-code mobile app development in record time, just one day.
Pocketfied is not a standard mobile app builder. It creates your app quickly with a flawless design and offers full integration with Shopify’s online stores and it handles AppStore and Google Play registrati...
Next generation low code platforms snub citizen developers
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 by Sumit Sarkar
Analysts have touted the growth of high productivity application development platforms which are attractive to many enterprises unable to find the necessary digital talent. These evolving platforms, also described as no or low code, focus on increasing productivity over traditional software development by expanding the pool of talent that can deliver apps. Many professi...
$100M in app developer funds available to build Cloudflare apps
Friday, June 30, 2017 by Richard Harris
Cloudflare, an Internet performance and security company, is introducing the all-new Cloudflare Apps, a free platform that enables developers to build applications that leverage their global infrastructure and distribute them to the more than six million users on their network. As part of this new platform, the company is announcing the $100 million Cloudflare Developer...
The growing gap between the speed of business and the pace of software development
Monday, October 17, 2016 by Richard Harris
The rapid pace of business today is only increasing, which means companies need quick access to effective, flexible and scalable technology in order to succeed. IT organizations are simply struggling to keep up with this growing demand for business applications, which can’t be developed fast enough, updated often enough, or maintained well enough. It’s a com...
Predictions for the World of Gaming in 2016
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 by Nikola Cavic
To understand the top opportunities for mobile gaming for 2016, we turned to Nikola Čavić, Head of Business Development at Nordeus, an award-winning European games and technology company and publisher of Top Eleven, one of the most popular social sports video game in the world. Here are his predictions for 2016.Google’s return to China will see potential opportunity for...
Mapping the Mobile App Platform RFP
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 by Cathal McGloin
Besides an organizational course-correction towards mobile-first strategies, we are seeing the mobile enterprise shift to agile and open technologies. As organizations mature from developing one-off tactical apps, they continue to evolve their mobile strategies to drive new revenue streams and business models.The increasing volume of apps, the complexity of connec...
Esri’s ArcGIS Runtime SDK Offers Online and Offline Mapping Functions for the Microsoft .NET Framework
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 by Richard Harris
Esri has announced the release of its first commercial version of ArcGIS Runtime SDK for the Microsoft .NET Framework. This software development kit joins Esri's line of runtime products, including iOS, Mac OS X, Android, Java, Qt, and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET has been built as a new, shared API across native app platforms ...
Report Shows Mobile Developers Are Still Struggling Monetizing Apps
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 by Richard Harris
Vision Mobile’s 7th Developer Economics surveyed more than 10,000 developers on the app economy, tracking developer experiences across platforms, revenues, apps, tools, APIs, segments and regions.Highlights from the report Include:Platform Wars- On a global level the platform wars are ending with iOS claiming the majority of the high-end device market and Andr...
App Promotion Via Podcasts
Monday, July 21, 2014 by Artyom Dogtiev
It was the summer of 2005 when Apple introduced iTunes version 4.9 to support a new phenomena of that day - Podcasts. The novelty of Podcasts gave people an entirely new channel to listen to. It covered various topics in order to satisfy their hobby of recorded radio broadcasts without having to listen to them at a specific time.Suddenly, people could subscribe to a spe...
How to Make Business Apps Without the Need to Code
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 by Alex Bakman
Today over 90% of Americans who own a smartphone while close to half own a tablet. These mobile devices have become the de facto standard devices used in virtually all aspects of our lives today displacing our dependence on laptop and desktop computers. There is, however, a major dilemma taking place in this transition which we have witnessed before. When the IBM ...
Guide: Using Facebook To Get App Installs
Friday, April 4, 2014 by Artyom Dogtiev
Writing a
marketing plan is a crucial step in app development. There are several types of
advertising/influence making that go into a good marketing mix - media buying,
a strong press release, traffic generation, media coverage and social media
exposure.
Facebook has
become the platform that allows a single solution, combining social media
marketing and tr...
Liferay Releases SDK to Speed Up Custom Mobile App Development
Thursday, April 3, 2014 by Richard Harris
New developer toolkit helps Liferay’s customers develop and manage sophisticated mobile appsLiferay, Inc., which makes open source portal software, has released a mobile software development kit. The Mobile SDK is part of Liferay’s commitment to being a mobile-ready platform, which began with making responsive design work out of the box in Liferay Portal 6.2. The M...
Smart TV App Market: Fragmentation Rules
Monday, January 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
This is the time of year where TV manufacturers, console manufacturers and others with a vested interest in the consumer TV industry launch and announce new products and services. This is the result of the domination of CES, where anything and everything in consumer technology is rolled out for the year.And you might have noticed a recent flurry of news relating to the ...
The Future of PhoneGap
Saturday, December 28, 2013 by Marko Lehtimaki
Adobe, the
current owner of the popular HTML5 hybrid app framework PhoneGap, has
traditionally focused on the creation of multimedia and creativity software
products. In more recent years, Adobe has been betting heavily on HTML5. It
remains that creative professionals are Adobe’s bread and butter, and this
focus sometimes requires product decisions which might not ...
App Developers to See Another Fractionalized Market for Smart Wearable Apps
Thursday, December 26, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Here we go again @#$!4! Another market, another plethora of operating systems, SDKs, app markets, and more. Of course, you’ve read our headline and know we are talking about the smart wearables market, specifically the smart watch market, which is rapidly becoming much more mainstream that current glasses options.We recently posted an article commenting on a recent Koru...
App Developers Conference Survey Finds Piracy and Discoverability are Big Problems
Monday, September 30, 2013 by Richard Harris
Piracy and discoverability are the top issues facing app developers today, according to new research conducted by the organizers of the inaugural App Developers Conference (ADC). In order to paint a picture of the app development landscape as it stands right before ADC, more than 250 app creators were surveyed on topics ranging from targeted platforms and app stores to...
Tough gig making a living as an app developer
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 by Richard Harris
ROSEDALE, Md. — Shawn and Stephanie Grimes spent much of the last two years pursuing their dream of doing research and development for Apple, the world’s most successful corporation.THE iECONOMYA series examining challenges posed by increasingly globalized high-tech industries.More in This Series »GraphicJob Prospects for App WritersRelatedWhat It Takes to Be an Ap...
