How to make testing apps easier using HeadSpin
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 by Richard Harris
New device launches are exciting for consumers, but a lot happens behind the scenes. New devices mean new device-OS configurations. App developers have to scramble to understand how their apps will perform under new circumstances. This cannot be taken for granted, because a few seconds of additional app load time means millions of lost revenue. New device launches put a...
Preventing bad app reviews according to Poq
Tuesday, October 16, 2018 by Richard Harris
Poq has released information to developers to help them understand the impacts of negative app reviews, and how to handle them, through a new white paper titled "The Ultimate Guide to Preventing Bad App Reviews". While it's aimed more towards retail-based apps, there is insightful information any developer can use inside the paper.
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Why your app is getting uninstalled and how to prevent it
Wednesday, November 22, 2017 by Simon Spaull
App developers have a tough job managing the marketing life cycle. Before an app is released, app developers must have plans for user acquisition and they must be agile enough to adapt in those first hectic weeks. But as you gain traction and grow comfortable with how your app is doing, there is a huge worry that looms over you: what if users stop using your app and uni...
PacketZoom Increasing the network performance for apps in Asia
Thursday, November 16, 2017 by Richard Harris
PacketZoom, the company re-defining mobile application performance through in-app mobile networking technology, announced today that several mobile applications in Asia have used its app acceleration technology to significantly increase app performance. Apps from Sephora, Inshorts and Netmeds reported speed increases of up to 2x and disconnection rate decreases of over ...
Slow apps and websites can ruin your reputation
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 by Richard Harris
App and web users are growing more demanding and less forgiving, according to the results of a consumer survey from Apica. In a clear call to action for organizations around the world, Apica's survey found that three quarters of respondents expect websites and apps to perform faster than they did three years ago. Apica conducted the survey among internet users in the UK...
Amos Ben Yaacov hired as PacketZoom's General Manager EMEA
Tuesday, July 18, 2017 by Richard Harris
PacketZoom, a leader in mobile application acceleration, announced today that it has expanded to Europe to help accelerate mobile app performance in the region. The company has hired industry veteran Amos Ben Yaacov as its new General Manager EMEA to oversee growth throughout Europe and bring PacketZoom’s proprietary app analytics, controls and acceleration technology t...
OpenShift Online lets developers deploy and scale public cloudnative apps
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Red Hat, Inc. has introduced the next generation of Red Hat OpenShift Online, their open source, container-native, multi-tenant cloud platform. Based on the same Linux container- and Kubernetes-based foundation as the OpenShift Container Platform, OpenShift Online gives developers the ability to quickly and easily build, deploy and scale cloud-native applications in a p...
Why you should make your gameplay fast (or game over!)
Monday, June 12, 2017 by Shlomi Gian
Countless mobile game publishers have tried to formulate the winning recipe for successful mobile games. Some of them seem universal and straightforward, while others are controversial or genre-specific. Not surprisingly, the indisputable ingredient that is both fundamental and critical to a mobile game’s success is simply performance. It affects every stage and each co...
Apteligent and Twin Prime Wants to Help You Speed up Your Apps
Thursday, August 11, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Apteligent is working with Twin Prime to utilize its mobile app acceleration technology that provides the ability to provide a faster, more effective mobile experience. The Twin Prime platform offers capabilities to analyze network performance and establish alternate content delivery strategies to combat network latency, which is often a cause of app slowness and source...
Apteligent Releases New SDK for App Crash and Latency Reporting
Monday, July 18, 2016 by Richard Harris
Apteligent (formerly Crittercism) has released a new upgraded Standard Edition SDK which provides crash and latency reporting tools that allow mobile developers to troubleshoot, prioritize, and resolve issues that damage a users’ app experience. It provides analytics and metrics that provide detailed, real-time information to find and resolve crashes, freezes, and issue...
TEE Provides Safe Environment for Secure Android App Development
Monday, March 23, 2015 by Allen Storey
Despite powering the majority of the world’s smart devices, Android has long been seen as the weak link in terms of mobile security. The open nature of the platform offers versatility and flexibility to app developers and the result is an incredibly diverse range of apps. However, it does mean that applications and their associated content are vulnerable to malware, man...
Why Just Monitoring Your Server Is Not Enough
Monday, February 16, 2015 by Trevor Parsons
Server monitoring tools have traditionally been one of the first building blocks in any IT infrastructure. Viewed as the control panel for infrastructure effectiveness, much like the speedometer and temperature gauges on your car, these tools capture resource usage information from your OS performance API or performance counters such as CPU, Disk, Memory, Network at a s...
MediSafe Becomes the First Mobile Health App Android for Wear Smartwatches
Thursday, July 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
MediSafe has become the first mobile health app on Google’s just-announced suite of Android Wear smartwatches. The app offers users the ability to automatically receive two-way sync medication reminders and provides the ability to record medication doses.Users wearing either the LG Android Wear, Samsung Gear Live or Moto 360 smartwatches, who also have the MediSafe...
BlazeMeter Offers Scriptless App Performance Testing
Monday, July 7, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
BlazeMeter, a provider of the JMeter-based performance testing cloud, has launched FollowMe, which offers scriptless performance testing for its cloud-based platform. FollowMe helps speed up and simplify performance testing by eliminating complex, costly and time-consuming scripting procedures. The product eliminates the need to write load testing scripts on applic...
Make Your Apps Load Faster With Golgi and Kill The Spinning Wheel!
Thursday, May 22, 2014 by Richard Harris
After spending time polishing your latest app, you want it to succeed and part of that relies on the user experience of how quickly they get from starting it up to actually using it to get stuff done. It has been shown that if an app fails to load after 2 times, 4 out of 5 times it will get uninstalled. So, every second matters. Golgi wants to help ensure it l...
SOASTA and CA Technologies to Partner for Integrated Test Web and Mobile Testing Platform
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
SOASTA, a cloud and mobile testing provider, has entered into a technology and distribution partnership agreement with CA Technologiesa to integrate SOASTA’s Cloud based Web testing solution, CloudTest, with CA Service Virtualization and CA LISA Test software suites. The solutions will be offered by CA Technologies as a new integrated solution, CA LISA Cloud Test, ...
Spirent Offers New SaaS Vulnerability Scanning and Load Testing Platform
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Spirent Communications, a provider of network, devices and application testing solutions, has launched ArmorHub, a cloud-based vulnerability scanning service for website owners, application developers, and API managers.ArmorHub, together with Blitz.io, delivers a set of cloud-based services for security assessment and load testing offered as a subscription-based Softwar...
May 2014 Issue of ADM is Here!
Friday, May 2, 2014 by Richard Harris
Okay first a little gloating, I'm proud to announce the 12 issue of App Developer Magazine, May 2014! The issue is over 80 pages and contains some excellent resources including everything from using Facebook to help promote your app, to knowing where to invest in the mobile industry, it's all right here!Here is the complete lineup:FEATURESGuide: Using Facebook To G...
Load Impact Releases Cloud Based App Load Testing Software as a Service
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Load Impact has released its cloud-based load testing Software as a Service for mobile apps, APIs and websites that can simulate traffic generated from a variety of mobile operating systems, popular browsers, and mobile networks including 3G, GSM and LTE.According to the company only about half of companies with mobile sites or apps today currently test their mobile cod...
Guide: How to Publish from Xcode 5 To The Apple App Store
Friday, October 25, 2013 by Richard Harris
The process of publishing an app from Xcode has a changed a bit with xCode 5, and if you aren't savvy to the change you could get locked into an endless circle of "no identities are available for signing", or Xcode crashes. We have broken down how to get an app to the Apple App store including the latest changes in just 9 steps;1. Verify that you are using a distributio...
7 developer mistakes using ads for monetization
Thursday, November 29, 2012 by Richard Harris
There are so many options for app developers to consider when using adds to monetize their app traffic. Unfortunately there are also a few things that need to be considered before picking an ad network to use that are often overlooked.Mistake#1: Not segmenting your inventory effectivelyWhen it comes to inventory segmentation for advertising, developers usually do ...
