Telerik and Kendo UI R3 updates from Progress
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 by Richard Harris
Progress the provider of application development and infrastructure software, recently announced the R3 2023 release of Progress Telerik and Progress Kendo UI, the
most powerful .NET and JavaScript UI libraries and tools for application development. From modernizing legacy projects to building new applications, this new release equips developers with the tool...
NET MAUI and the end of IE
Thursday, August 4, 2022 by Richard Harris
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced the general availability of .NET MAUI, enabling developers to build cross-platform applications from a single codebase, saving costs, and eliminating the need to maintain multiple codebases.
According to Microsoft, the primary goal of .NET MAUI is to enable developers "to deliver the best app experience as designed speciall...
Infragistics Ultimate 21.1 builds on enhancements for developers
Monday, June 21, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Infragistics announced the release of Infragistics Ultimate 21.1. The newest release breaks new ground in app design and developer collaboration with the world’s only digital product design platform, Indigo.Design, that lets teams build apps up to 10x faster.
Infragistics Ultimate 21.1 builds on three key themes:
Hyper-productivity enhancements for develo...
Webinar: What is low code and why should I care
Tuesday, April 7, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Ashwood Computer and BlueFinity International are jointly hosting a free webinar to demonstrate the many benefits of using low code app development tools to create state of the art, professional mobile apps and to introduce BlueFinity’s low code development platform, Evoke.
Research last year from Gartner[i] predicted that by 2024, about two-thirds of applicati...
.NET Core 3.0 is here
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Core 3.0. It includes many improvements, including adding Windows Forms and WPF, adding new JSON APIs, support for ARM64 and improving performance across the board. C# 8 is also part of this release, which includes nullable, async streams, and more patterns. F# 4.7 is included and focused on relaxing syntax and targeting .NET ...
Glance announces mobile app sharing for omnichannel visual engagement
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Glance has announced the general availability of Glance Mobile App Sharing, rounding out the industry’s only true omnichannel visual engagement platform. The announcement was made at the Gartner Customer Experience & Technologies Summit in London. “For the past two years, TurboTax has used Glance’s cobrowse, screen share and agent video to help power TurboTax o...
Mobile website or mobile app, the changing tides
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
Programming with native mobile languages has been the keystone way of producing a rock-solid mobile app since the beginning of the mobile app stores, and there’s good reason. After-all, programming as close to the hardware layer as possible is usually your safest bet, and using the language the manufacture fully supports will get that job done with less headaches.But in...
The HTML5 killer you may not know about
Thursday, September 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
For years HTML has been the universal language for website construction, and it has been impressively resilient in the face of competing languages thus far. It’s been known to have the best combination of speed, security, responsiveness and compatibility of all programming languages on the market. However, the world is expanding beyond the internet browser to mobile and...
Why runtime application selfprotection is critical for app security
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 by David Strom
Today most of us go about implementing security from the outside in. The common practice is to start by defining a perimeter and trying to defend it with various security tools. Even though perimeters have been porous for more than a decade, we still can’t give up this notion that if we build a better wall we can keep our enterprises safer.Certainly that is where most e...
Sencha opens up about SenchaCon, developer challenges, and platform updates
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
Sencha, a company that provides developers with frameworks, tools and services to help them build cross-platform web application experiences, recently held its sixth user conference SenchaCon, the largest universal application event in the world. We caught up with Sencha’s CEO Art Landro to learn more about two announcements the company made at SenchaCon: an enhanc...
Autodesk Adds New APIs and SDKs to Forge Cloud Development Platform
Friday, June 17, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Autodesk has announced new functionality to its Forge platform, including new cloud application development tools and services cloud developers. The Forge platform offers a set of cloud services that connects design, engineering, visualization, collaboration, production and operations workflows. Application programming interfaces (APIs) and software developmen...
Omnis Studio 8.0 Platform Adds 64 bit and Cocoa API Support
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 by Richard Harris
Omnis has released Omnis Studio 8.0, which allows developers to create enterprise, web and mobile applications for Windows, Linux, and OS X systems and mobile devices. Version 8.0 allows developers to build desktop and mobile apps one time, then launch across all the major platforms. The newest version provides assistance and tips throughout the development process...
Using Virtual Mobile Infrastructure to Protect Corporate Data
Saturday, March 5, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
We chatted with Avast Vice President Sinan Eren to talk BYOD mobile security and how the Avast VMP solution provides companies with the ability to create a virtual mobile infrastructure (VMI) that streams mobile apps to any device. Sinan is a cybersecurity expert, who has extensive knowledge in both the engineering and business aspects of security. ADM: What is the...
Creating Mac Desktop Apps Using Corona SDK Now In Public Beta
Thursday, July 23, 2015 by Richard Harris
Corona is bringing Mac App and Win32 App support to the Corona platform and has announced it is moving from a private to a public beta to allow developers the opportunity to experiment using the platform to build desktop apps.To build desktop apps with the beta, developers can build apps directly from Corona Simulator, just like as they would for iOS or Android with no ...
Top Five Ways to Get Your Apps Ready for Windows 10
Friday, July 10, 2015 by Brian Alexakis
With the full release of Windows 10 right around the corner, now’s the time to ensure your app is ready for Microsoft’s biggest release ever. And here’s how you can do it.Expect Big Consumer Adoption Rates for Windows 10Microsoft expects that Windows 10 will see huge adoption rates by its millions of worldwide customers, from home users to small business and large enter...
Embarcadero Releases New App Analytics Platform for Connected Devices and IoT
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Embarcadero Technologies has launched Embarcadero AppAnalytics, a hosted backend service to provide application developers with detailed information on how users are interacting with desktop, mobile, and wearable applications built with RAD Studio XE8. The component enables developers to create better apps by tracking anonymous user events within existing VCL Windo...
How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Poor Localization
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 by Françoise Henderson
The appetite for mobile and desktop apps is just as strong internationally as it is in the United States, as consumers and businesses rely on software for both work and play. Data from the mobile analytics firm Flurry found that mobile web users in 2014 spent up to 86 percent of their time on apps – an increase from 80 percent the year before.Of course, that only covers...
Lookback User Feedback System Is Now Available for Android and Mac Developers Too
Thursday, March 19, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Lookback, a company that offers feedback recording tools for apps, has announced the acquisition of Reissued Ltd, and its QuickCast platform which provides a screen recording app for OS X with more than 500,000 screencasts on its platform.The Lookback platform facilitates feedback for user testing enabling software companies to record user feedback, experiences and bug ...
CA Study Shows Load Times, Functionality and Security Most Important to App Users
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 by Richard Harris
CA Technologies has released the results of a global study that reveals that mobile and desktop apps are struggling with brand loyalty. One of the main findings in the report shows that businesses delivering a sub-par application experience risk losing 27 percent of their customers.The study titled “Software: the New Battleground for Brand Loyalty” surveyed 6,770 consum...
Reddo Leverages HTML5 to Allow Developers to Create New Mobile Front ends to Existing Windows Desktop Apps
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Reddo software platform, currently in beta, provides an opportunity for enterprise IT organizations to extend their existing application delivery infrastructure to enable new mobile front-ends to their existing Windows Desktop apps. The platform consists of three components:- Reddo UX Connector: Intercepts UI related communication between running application an...
What App Developers Really Think of the IoT and Connectivity Opportunity
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
If I hear or see the word “disruptive” describing a company’s product one more time I think I’m going to scream. In this industry, we come up with a term and then bang the heck out of it. Apple’s introduction of the iPhone, iPad and App Store was disruptive; they changed our society in less than a generation. Uber? Someone’s going to give me a ride, maybe nicer than a c...
Embarcadero Technologies RAD Studio XE7 for Cross Platform Development
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Embarcadero Technologies has launched Embarcadero RAD Studio XE7, a solution to build connected apps for Windows, Android, iOS, OS X, gadgets, and wearables. The new XE7 version of RAD Studio enables Delphi/Object Pascal and C++ developers to extend existing Windows applications and build apps that connect desktop and mobile devices with gadgets, cloud services, and ent...
Facebook Now Allows Direct News Feed Sales of Virtual Goods for Desktop Games
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
Facebook has updated its desktop app ads to now allow game developers to sell virtual goods directly from an ad in the news feed or the right-hand column. A developer with a desktop game on Facebook can now promote the sale of a virtual good outside of the app and gamers can purchase the virtual good directly from the ad and start playing the game.As part...
US App Development Firm Sourcebits Acquired by Globo
Friday, July 4, 2014 by Richard Harris
Globo, a provider of enterprise mobility solutions and Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”), today announced the acquisition of San Francisco, California based Sourcebits, a designer and developer of mobile applications for enterprise customers.The acquisition of the services division of Sourcebits strengthens Globo’s mobile application development capabilities and enhances i...
HTML5 App Development With Sencha’s Recently Released Ext JS 5
Thursday, June 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
Sencha’s recent release of Ext JS 5 is the “most comprehensive update to the framework since our inception” according to the company. The product provides an HTML5 development for desktop and mobile apps providing the ability to deliver desktop apps on touch-enabled devices using a single codebase.So Whats New?Unified Events Across Desktops and Touch-screen DevicesExt J...
Microsoft Announces New App Developer Opportunities at Build, Along With Windows Phone 8.1
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft continues to woo the app development community and announced several new new developer opportunities at Build 2014. The emphasis was on the Windows platform as a common platform across devices, a single toolset, a common infrastructure across the Windows and Windows Phone stores, and a clear commitment to interoperability. The company also annou...
Good Technology Equips Developers to Provide More Seamless Business User Experience
Friday, March 28, 2014 by Richard Harris
Good Technology™ has introduced new capabilities in the Good Dynamics® Secure Mobility Platform, enabling developers to more easily mobilize legacy app functions and simplify provisioning of multiple Good-secured apps. These patent-pending features, server-based services and easy activation from the Good Dynamics Platform, help developers deliver apps with a great user ...
Gizmox Launches Visual WebGui Version 7 to Develop HTML5 Apps
Monday, December 23, 2013 by Richard Harris
Gizmox has announced the availability of Visual WebGui Version 7 which includes a new mobile feature set, an assessment tool for analyzing legacy desktop apps, and integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2013. Visual WebGui allows Visual Studio developers to create HTML5 apps using only C# and visual designers, with no need to learn new programming languages.
V...
Over 100 Demos Now Available for Sencha Ext JS JavaScript Framework for Desktop App Development
Friday, November 15, 2013 by Richard Harris
Developers looking to quickly develop comprehensive desktop apps now have access to over 100 demos demonstrating the Sencha Ext JS desktop application development platform which provides cross-browser compatibility, advanced MVC architecture, plugin-free charting, and modern UI widgets.
Developers interested in Ext JS can now access more than 100 demo examples, 1000 AP...
Intel App Innovation Contest (AIC) 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Intel, in partnership with Lenovo, has announced the launch a global app development competition to encourage the creation of Windows 8 tablet and All-in-One desktop apps.
The Intel App Innovation Contest (AIC) 2013 is open to app developers in 20 countries including the US, Russia, China, Japan, and Israel. There are six categories - Education, Entertainment, Finance,...
Everything.me, can it really bridge HTML5 and Native apps
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 by Richard Harris
Native apps are stealing the show when it comes to usage and functionality on mobile devices these days, but a lot of companies continue to hold out hope that more open HTML5-based mobile web services will ultimately win the day. In the meantime, those who can straddle the two worlds beautifully and effectively may end up the winners.One example comes in the form of Eve...
