Apps will soon have to be compatible with over 100 devices
Friday, February 24, 2017 by Richard Harris
The Mobile World Congress 2017 has prompted AppFutura to release a report with keys to create a mobile app with the collaboration of development companies worldwide. Main conclusions show that apps will have to be more dynamic and adapt to the increasing number of devices and technologies available, still far from the mobile market full potential.Mobile applications hav...
How to Create an Effective App Startup Pitch Deck
Tuesday, June 14, 2016 by Richard Harris
ROKO Labs has created a new infographic, How to Create an Effective Pitch Deck for Startups, that provides an informal roadmap showing the path to app pitching success for entrepreneurs.The infographic is the result of the company’s participation in the App Idea Awards where company representatives helped review 600 pitch decks that were submitted. The company...
Four Ways for Developers To Open Source Their Next Big Idea
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 by Mihai Pohontu
Whether it was the printing press, steam engine, or the assembly line, history has been defined by pivotal advances in technology. We are now in the age of a new wave of advances – from the smartphone to virtual reality – that have again revolutionized how we interact with the world and access information. The growing app economy to support this technology (which c...
App Idea Awards Announce Finalists
Thursday, April 21, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The App Idea Award is a contest that lets app entrepreneurs compete for the chance to get their app created for free. The awards have released the names of the six finalists who will compete for $70,000 in app design and development costs. The winner will be announced on at the May 3 in New York, where the six finalists will pitch judges from leading venture capita...
Protecting Your Mobile App from Imposters
Thursday, March 3, 2016 by AJ Tibbetts
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but in an app context it will lead to lost users and ad imprints. This may seriously impact a bottom line and may even affect exit strategies such as prospects for acquisition. Worse, copying of mobile apps is widespread, to the point that Apple has introduced a web interface for reporting duplicates in an effort to clean...
Google's Project Tango Virtual Reality Platform Featured on New Lenovo Smartphone
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Lenovo has announced the upcoming release of the first consumer-ready smartphone with available with Google’s Project Tango technology which gives an Android powered mobile device the ability to navigate the physical world with a new kind of spatial perception by adding advanced computer vision, image processing, and special vision sensors.Available in summer 2016, the ...
Study Shows Companies Want Apps to Directly Impact Their Bottom Line
Tuesday, December 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Mark Lorion, Chief Marketing Officer & Head of Product at Apperian, about the ramifications of the results of Apperian’s recently published the 2015 Enterprise Mobile App Trend Report, which analyzed nearly two million app deployments across hundreds of thousands of enterprise users.Lorion is the CMO and Head of Product, whose responsibility...
Reflection's Beta Platform Provide New Option for Market Analytics of App Categories
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
New Startup Reflection has released its app market intelligence platform in beta to help developers understand what apps to make, where to market, and identify the strategies and revenue models that achieve the best results. Reflection provides access to daily data for the top 200 apps in all available countries, stores and categories.Reflection’s leaderboard platform p...
Google Creates Tech Entrepreneur Nanodegree to Help Indies Learn to Scale
Monday, November 9, 2015 by Richard Harris
Google has partnered with Udacity to create a new Tech Entrepreneur Nanodegree which is designed to help indie app publishers learn what it takes to design, validate, prototype, monetize, and market app ideas from the ground up and grow them into a scalable business.The program takes 4-7 months to complete and offers access to industry app veterans to provide students w...
AppGyver Updates UI and UX for its HTML5 Hybrid App Builder
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
AppGyver’s Composer platform offers the ability for developers to bootstrap HTML5 hybrid apps. In its Composer 2 release, the company has provided updates to its UI and UX to improve how the Composer 2 admin interface looks and how the UX flow works.Composer 2 is AppGyver’s visual bootstrapping tool that allows developers to quickly finish hashing out a new app idea the...
A Guide to Become a Successful Appreneur
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 by Ann Lewis
Mobile app development is a lucrative field. The tremendous success of numerous apps on the market adds to its appeal and this has led to a situation, where app entrepreneurs or appreneurs earn truckloads of money from creating and marketing their apps. This write-up traces the steps of successful appreneurs, which will help you follow suit. Know Your Target Audien...
The Business Case for Developing Connected Car Apps
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 by Narayan Sainaney
Smartphone, smart home, smart car: all buzzwords that indicate the Internet of Things is becoming a mainstream topic as people strive to simplify their lives and seamlessly connect to the information, places and people that matter to them most. The average American owns 1.35 sim-card enabled mobile devices. Yet, the car is lagging behind when it comes to being able...
How the Apple App Store is Changing Computer Science Curriculums
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 by Ashu Desai
I was a sophomore in high school when Apple launched the App Store. Excited by the idea of building software for a shiny new device, I tried my hand at building apps. My second game - Helicopter - sold 50,000 copies and jumpstarted my career in software development. Although the algorithmic challenges of programming appealed to me, I truly discovered my passion for comp...
Firefox Smartphone OS is Now Available in 24 Countries
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 by Richard Harris
Mozilla has announced that the Firefox OS is now available on three continents with 12 smartphones offered by 13 operators in 24 countries. Mozilla has been pushing its Firefox OS as an opportunity to use Web as a platform, outside the proprietary mobile operating systems.Three new smartphones have been launched in India and one in Bangladesh over the last few weeks as ...
App developer research tools
Friday, September 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
Six years after the mobile era's inception back in 2008, there are more than 2 million mobile apps. This includes iOS and Android combined and a significant amount of Windows Mobile apps. The challenge is finding that great idea for a new app. To take on this challenge you need tools for information digging and researching.
The starting point is defin...
Win One of Two $10k Prizes in the Esri Global Disaster Resistance App Challenge
Sunday, August 24, 2014 by Richard Harris
Esri is hosting the Global Disaster Resistance App Challenge, which was created to show how mobile technology can impact the design of programs for the sustainable use of energy and natural resources as well as mitigate the impact of natural disasters.The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) launched the Making Cities Resilient Campaign to improve ...
Appowr Launches The Powering App Ideas Competition
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 by Richard Harris
As
the app landscape is evolving, app designers and developers are looking for
inspiration and innovation. And innovation seeks new challenges. To challenge
every designer, Appowr has organized the Powering App Ideas competition. It’s
your opportunity to explore your design skills and discover their potential.
And what will follow this unique process...
Too Many App Ideas and Not Enough Time
Friday, January 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
I keep a running list of all ofthe app ideas I think of on myown. Some good, some really good, some horrible - but whenever inspiration strikes I whip out my iPhone and title the app and give it a rough description, enough so that at some other point in the future it can be developed.The other day I opened my list and found hundreds of entries! I tried to go back throug...
A Working App Prototype in Less Than 10 Minutes
Thursday, November 7, 2013 by Richard Harris
Introduction to AppGyver Prototyper
When it
comes to effective prototyping nothing counts more than how accurately you can
represent your idea. For app prototyping specifically, that means delivering a
sense of look, touch and responsiveness. We’ve all been put in the position
where we’ve found ourselves defending a great idea just because it...
What the US Government Can Learn From App Developers
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 by Richard Harris
As of this morning the US Government is in a "shutdown". This essentially means any federally funded National park is closed, some federal workers are off until further notice, gun permits might be delayed, business loans are halted, and a many other things that will likely effect you during your daily routine. But ironically, the IRS still collects taxes, the new...
CodeProject Announces The Intel App Innovation Contest
Thursday, August 1, 2013 by Richard Harris
Intel App Innovation Contest Challenges Developers to Get Creative to Win Over $100,000 in Cash Prizes Global competition pits developers against each other in the ultimate Windows 8 App challenge August 1, 2013 - TORONTO, Canada CodeProject has announced its newest contest, the Intel App Innovation Contest (AIC) 2013, with over $100,000 in cash prizes. The global ...
Epson Wants Developers to Help Build Apps for Wearable Devices
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 by Richard Harris
The future of mobile could be in devices you wear like a pair of glasses, and Epson is putting some guns behind their efforts to bringing new devices, apps, ideas, ad networks, and developers together to create "something awesome"Epson launched version 1.0 of a device (Moverio BT-1000) last year with WiFi connectivity and smart navigation that makes images pop in the re...
Telerik and Nokia to Host First Annual Boston Hackathon
Sunday, April 7, 2013 by Richard Harris
Close to 300 developers will gather to learn about the latest in Windows Phone application developmentWaltham, MA – April 3, 2013 – Telerik, the end-to-end provider of software development, lifecycle and content management tools and solutions, is announcing today the first-annual Boston Hackathon, taking place April 13-14, held by Telerik and sponsored by Noki...
Get Feedback for your App before it's Published
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 by Richard Harris
Have you ever wished that there was some way that you could promote your app to a bunch of people before actually publishing it? Enter a new site called PreApps.A good way to market an app (without really marketing it) is to build excitement for it prior to it's release. It's also a great way to get people interested in what you are doing, and give you feedback wh...
Day one at AppsWorld North America 2013
Thursday, February 7, 2013 by Richard Harris
A HUGE thank you to Kate Williams of AppsWorld for the invitation to cover the event. It has been nothing short of amazing, and has been great to meet everyone in person, and tell them all about our new magazine. Here is a condensed rundown of our day:SendDroid talked to us about their app monetization network offered to Android developers that is offering high CPMs and...
Make an app promo video to help market your app
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 by Richard Harris
Going from app idea, to development, to marketing are pretty large steps overall. And while you may completely understand your app concept yourself just fine, explaining it to anyone else on the other end of the screen (aka your users) may prove to be difficult. It's standard practice to create instruction screens and how-to guides and embed them, but a more involved ...
Need some app ideas here is some for ya!
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 by Richard Harris
Our friends over at CoronaGeek have published some good app ideas to get your creative juices flowing. Usually app developers covet their ideas so this is a bit of a rarity but Corona Geek pointed out a good philosophy , "Ideas don’t make you money. IMPLEMENTING ideas makes you money."...
How to not waste time on bad app ideas
Monday, December 17, 2012 by Richard Harris
Sometimes when a new app idea comes to us, the stroke of genius tends to override some rational thinking. We tend to rush out and tell somebody we trust all about our new idea, then we go ahead and register the app, and domain name before anyone else gets it (this makes it feel official somehow), and we even sometimes go as far as storyboarding the app idea, and writing...
Going back in time for app ideas and gaming structure
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 by Richard Harris
Sometimes reinventing the wheel can be exhausting, so when you need inspiration or are stuck on a certain part of your app design – go back in history and look at how early game developers did things.Sometimes the simplest of things tend to be the best choice when deciding on mechanics and innovative features to put into your app. This article explains how going back to...
Apple Developers can no longer use the word memory in app titles
Monday, December 10, 2012 by Richard Harris
The next big app idea you might have better not contain the word "memory" in the app title so says Apple.Believe it or not the word memory as relating to a game is copywritten by a company out of Germany. This seems a bit crazy to me since you shouldn't be able to copyright such a common word, but Apple says it's a valid claim and is backing them up on it.Even if ...
Hot tips from a big app developer
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 by Richard Harris
What would you call a successful app? Would 20 million downloads worldwide do it, we thought so too! A recent New York Times article said that very few app developers (only 4%) make over a million dollars, the rest of them are all clawing for an audience and making somewhere between $200 and $30,000. The curious thing here is that even with statistics like thi...
