Study finds Android outperforms iOS in user reaction time for push alerts
Monday, June 26, 2017 by Richard Harris
Accengage, a push notification technology company for Mobile Apps, Websites and Facebook Messenger, is has released the 2017 Edition of their annual Push Notification Benchmark. In addition to updating Push Notification opt-in and reaction rates for Mobile Apps on iOS & Android overall, by industry and country, the study reveals for the very first time: mobile app r...
Google Releases Google Cast SDK for Android and iOS
Friday, July 1, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
At Google I/O, The new Google Cast SDK was announced at Google I/O this year with the stated goal of making development for Google Cast quicker, more reliable, and easier to maintain. Included was the introduction of full state management that helps developers implement the right abstraction between an app and Google Cast. Google has now announced it has released t...
New App Marketing Report Show Big Difference Between Android and iOS App Users
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 by Richard Harris
In its recent State of App Marketing – H2 2015 Appsflyer analyzed more than 1.1 billion non-organic app installs and 5 billion app opens to learn when users in different parts of the world install apps and when they use them. Interestingly, there were several marked differences between Android and iOS users.Take App installs for example. While both OS versions were typi...
Debenu Quick PDF Library SDK Now Available for Android and iOS Apps
Thursday, July 9, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Debenu has released an updated version of its Quick PDF Library developer product with new iOS and Android support. This latest version also adds new functions, fixes several bugs and features a range of enhancements to existing functionality. With the new release Debenu now supports its PDF development SDK for generating and manipulating PDF files on Windows, Mac, iOS ...
Fungus OS Lets You Run iOS on Android Devices and Android on iOS Devices
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
There are many iOS users who also own an Android device and similarly there are Android users who own an iOS device. Each platform has its own strengths and weaknesses but now users can finally run iOS and Android together on the same device thanks to a neat solution from Moonbeam Development. Moonbeam has opened the doors to enjoying both iOS and Android on the sa...
Video Experts Group Releases Mobile Media SDK for Android and iOS
Monday, January 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
Video Experts Group has released the VXG Mobile Media SDK for Android and iOS which provides app publishers with the ability to incorporate their own mobile media player into their mobile solution.The SDK encapsulates all video and streaming related protocols and formats providing developers with the ability to develop low latency video applications such as IPTV, RTSP, ...
Foxit Updates PDF Software Development Kit for Android and iOS
Saturday, August 30, 2014 by Richard Harris
Foxit Software has launched Foxit PDF Software Development Kit (SDK) 4.1. The updated SDK is targeted to application developers whose applications need to leverage standard-compliant PDF technology and allow users to interact with PDF documents and forms across server, desktop, and mobile platforms.Developers are challenged to write code for their application front ends...
IDC: Android and iOS Devices Dominate Shipments of Smartphones
Monday, August 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
According to data from the International Data Corporation (IDC), the worldwide smartphone market reached a new milestone in the second quarter of 2014. For the first time in history over 300 million phones were shipped in a quarter. According to the IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 301.3 million smartphones worldwide, up 25.3% w...
Digia to Offer Training Sessions for the Qt Framework for Android and iOS App Development
Friday, February 14, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Digia has announced a series of Qt Mobile Roadshows that will run in the US, UK and Germany during February and March. The full-day events will feature technical training and developer presentations focused on how the Qt cross-platform application and user interface (UI) development framework can be used to enhance, simplify and accelerate development for the leadi...
Windows App Store Debuts Where's My App to Help Users Find Popular Android or iOS Apps
Thursday, July 25, 2013 by Richard Harris
New Windows phone owners looking for a specific app can use Microsoft's newly announced "Where's My App" app to see if the app they are looking for is available in the Windows Store. If the user does not find the app, "Where's My App" will provide potential alternatives with similar characteristics. The app will also allow users to send a request to developers to port t...
Unity goes free on Android and iOS
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 by Richard Harris
Unity CEO David Helgason has taken to the stage during the firm's Unite Nordic conference in Malmo to announce that the engine is now free on Android and iOS.License fees for the basic version of the engine have been scrapped, with the company claiming it is looking to push the "democratisation of game development further than ever before."The move, which is being broug...
Digia releases Qt 5.1 with Android and iOS support
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 by Richard Harris
Qt (makers of KDE for Linux) have added preliminary support for Android and iOS to Qt 5.1. This release is fully usable on both platforms and you can begin to develop for both OSs immediately. All of qtbase (Qt Core, Gui, Network etc.) is implemented. Qt Quick works very nicely on Android and most sensors are supported.That means Qt can now be used to build native, smoo...
iOS vs. Android developers, iOS still on top
Thursday, November 1, 2012 by Richard Harris
Study finds that iOS's lopsided developer revenue and Android fragmentation contribute to the disparity.
(Credit: Flurry Analytics)Despite Android's greater share of the smartphone market, Apple's iOS continues to attract greater support from app developers.Nearly seven of every 10 apps being created in the first quarter of 2012 were for the iOS platform, with...
