Google appeal rejected in Epic Games app store antitrust case
Tuesday, August 19, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
https://appdevelopermagazine.com/epic-games-sues-google-for-blocking-app-distribution/Alphabet Inc.'s Google was unsuccessful in its attempt to overturn a federal court ruling that ordered the company to reform its Android app store practices. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a unanimous decision rejecting Google’s claims that the trial j...
Apple iOS regains a lead in North America
Thursday, April 3, 2025 by Richard Harris
While Android powers the largest chunk of mobile web traffic, three times more than iOS, Apple has always been the largest player in North America, home to the largest number of iPhone and iPad users. However, the recent competition between iOS and Android in this region has been closer than ever, resulting in their smallest market share difference of only 1.1% in Decem...
Privacy Sandbox on Android launched by AppsFlyer and Unity Ads
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 by Austin Harris
AppsFlyer announced the phased global launch of its Privacy Sandbox on Android integration. Developed with close engagement from the Android Sandbox team at Google, AppsFlyer's Sandbox Attribution Reporting API dashboard is among the first of its kind to reach the market, offering marketers comprehensive, privacy-compliant analytics. The integration and pioneering t...
Huawei and Samsung see drop in market shares
Tuesday, February 21, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
A popular mobile operating system, Android, has over 2.8 billion active users, and most prefer Samsung devices. Although the South Korean smartphone manufacturer remains an absolute leader in the market, both in terms of revenue and users, there have been changes in the market shares of top Android players.
According to data presented by CasinosEnLigne.com, Samsung, ...
Mobile game spending is dominated by women says Liftoff
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 by Austin Harris
Liftoff released a data report exploring the booming world of mobile gaming. Since last year, Liftoff has detected a golden age of mobile game marketing with acquisition costs at all stages of the funnel decreasing and post-install conversion rates increasing. And as multi-platform gaming sensations like Fortnite bring high-quality play experiences to smartphones, more ...
The Android screen notch guide for developers
Monday, August 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
The screen notch on the iPhone X screen was unavoidable with the inclusion of the edge-to-edge OLED screen because the camera and sensors get in the way. So manufactures have to contour the screen around the sensors and camera area, which created the somewhat odd, but always funny “screen notch”.
Until now iOS developers were the only ones that&...
Avoid mobile cybersecurity threats by checking the source
Thursday, July 5, 2018 by Sam Bakken
Earlier this month IT news organizations around the globe reported that Epic Games’ popular Fortnite game was being counterfeited and malicious actors were, in fact, lacing the imposter apps with malware.
We’re only human, and people unwittingly let their guard down in anticipation of something they're passionate about, or when they think they might b...
Alternative Google Play app stores to consider
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 by Alex Makarevich
Android is open source, and because of that -app developers can build and deploy an APK file anywhere! There are obvious advantages to deploying into the known Android app stores such as Google Play, and Amazon - mostly in the potential number of impressions and installs your app can receive, because Google play comes as the default app store on most Android devices. Pl...
It's getting cheaper to buy installs but users don't stick around says Fiksu
Wednesday, March 1, 2017 by Richard Harris
January indexes from Fiksu DSP have revealed decreasing costs to drive installs across both iOS and Android devices, and increasing costs to acquire a user that makes a purchase. The data from Fiksu DSP tracks more than 38 trillion marketing events including impressions, clicks, downloads, registrations, purchases and other loyal user actions across 4.1 billion devices....
Mobbo released a new report on the state of mobile SDK's
Thursday, December 15, 2016 by Austin Harris
Mobbo just released its Power Index, which offers app publishers and marketers robust benchmarks of mobile app SDK components, helping them to make informed decisions about the best technology stacks. The report sheds light on the scale and performance of popular SDK components and tracks the movers and shakers in the mobile industry. Key Findings in the report:- 80% of...
New Report Shows Companies Are Increasingly Adopting Custom Apps
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
Good Powered by BlackBerry (formally Good Technology, which was purchased by BlackBerry in November) has released its thirteenth Good Mobility Index Report, showing that organizations are increasingly building custom secure apps. The Q3 report offers a snapshot of the activities of Good customers. In addition to an increase towards custom apps, the report showed a ...
New Strain of Malware Continues to Spread Through Chinese Android Market
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AdaptiveMobile has released new insight into the continuing emergence of a new strain of Android Malware. AdaptiveMobile has been monitoring the development of the program as it has spread through multiple variants across the Chinese Android market. The threat vector begins from an infected phone, where an SMS is sent to an uninfected device, informing the user tha...
Apps that Stick: A 29 Step Plan for a Killer Launch
Thursday, June 18, 2015 by Matthew Cordasco
Hey while you’re chugging that beer Friday back you may want to think about this head-spinning number: To date App Store developers have earned a cumulative $25 billion from the sale of apps and games.That a big pie, do you have what it takes to get your proper slice?Also, there’s a science to coding an app and there is definitely a science to marketing apps. Finding yo...
Report Shows Enterprises Are Emphasizing Secure Mobile Browsing
Monday, March 2, 2015 by Richard Harris
Good Technology has released its latest version of its quarterly Mobility Index Report, which includes findings which indicates that enterprises are accelerated activations of secure mobile apps, which grew 65 percent during the fourth quarter and 300 percent during the year.The quarterly Good Mobility Index Report leverages data collected from Good’s customer base, the...
Smartphone Market Grows 25 percent While Samsung Loses Grip on Android Market
Monday, November 3, 2014 by Richard Harris
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker for the third quarter of 2014, increased emphasis on emerging market smartphone releases drove global smartphone shipments above 300 million units for the second consecutive quarter. According to preliminary data, vendors shipped a total of 327.6 million units during the ...
WiMi5 HTML5 Gaming App Development Platform Launches Public Beta
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 by Richard Harris
WiMi5 is a cloud based platform to create, publish and monetize HTML5 casual games. The company has been in private beta and is now in public beta.The company seeks to become the next iOS and Android marketplace by using HTML5. Users of the platform will be able to create casual games, launch them in WiMi5’s in-house app marketplace and monetize through a F2P share...
Fortumo Launches Direct Carrier Billing in Pakistan
Thursday, July 3, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Mobile payments company Fortumo and mobile operator Telenor Pakistan are launching direct carrier billing in Pakistan that will provide the ability for app developers and publishers to receive payments from more than 35 million subscribers of Telenor Pakistan. These Telenor customers now able to make online payments by charging purchases to their phone bill. Fortumo wil...
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