Lightning Platform Mobile from Salesforce aims to futureproof apps
Thursday, January 24, 2019 by Austin Harris
Adding another lego to the wall between native programmers and low-code app builders, Salesforce has just announced the new Lightning Platform Mobile, a set of tools and services that aim to empower business users to build quick, connected and future-proofed mobile apps.
Consumers today expect their mobile experiences to be immersive and easy-to-use. But with a...
UI version control system has been developed by Applitools
Monday, September 17, 2018 by Austin Harris
Applitools announced a new UI Version Control system, empowering developers, test automation engineers, and product managers to view the entire history of their web and mobile application user interfaces (UI) to understand what’s changed, when, and by whom. This lets R&D and product teams more intelligently guide app development by providing a visual record of...
Creating multilingual apps with GitHub and Crowdin
Saturday, January 20, 2018 by Khrystyna Humenna
For millions of developers, GitHub is a perfect place to share code, build software, and grow businesses. This fall GitHub opened a Marketplace where you can find the right tools to add to your workflow and get the job done. To extend your app's reach, there’s a tool like Crowdin, a localization management tool that easily integrates with your repository, so you ca...
Kendo UI Builder v2 is now compatable with Electron Shell framework
Monday, August 7, 2017 by Richard Harris
Progress has announced the latest version of Progress Kendo UI Builder, a responsive web UI toolkit for rapidly delivering beautiful and intuitive web experiences. The new release introduces browser compatibility with Electron Shell, an extended library of built-in templates, the ability to customize screens with Blank View and enhanced data connectivity.“Today, the ult...
Focus on subcutaneous test
Thursday, April 20, 2017 by Austin Harris
Editors note: Guest submission from Head of Mobile at Future Platforms, Douglas HoskinsLooking to boost test coverage on a legacy system but don't know where to start? With a background in mobile app development, Douglas Hoskins, Head of Mobile at Future Platforms shares his insight on how you can maximize your efforts and engender greater confidence in your system...
Appvance Releases Software Quality Assurance Test Automation Solution
Sunday, May 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
Appvance has introduced Appvance UTP an DevOps friendly software quality assurance (SQA) automation solution for enterprise software and application testing.The UTP platform unifies all quality assurance (QA) automation with the Appvance write-once methodology to advance continuous integration and delivery of applications. It streamlines QA and expand collaboration and ...
Embarcadero Releases New AddOns UI for Delphi and C++Builder Developers
Wednesday, July 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
Embarcadero Technologies has released two new add-on solutions for developers -CodeSite and Konopka Signature VCL Controls. These product introductions are a result of Embarcadero’s recent acquisition of Raize Components.The Embarcadero CodeSite is a developer logging solution for Delphi, C++Builder and Visual Studio that helps developers debug deployed Windows applicat...
Apple Updates Developer Human Interface Guidelines for Apple Watch
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 by Richard Harris
Apple has updated its Human Interface Guidelines for the Apple Watch to help mobile developers better understand the foundations on which Apple Watch itself was designed and best practices for creating Apple Watch apps.These new Human Interface Guidelines provide an overview of the functionality behind gestures, force touch, digital crown, and side button. It also cover...
Progress Releases Updates to Telerik App Development Platform
Friday, January 16, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Progress has released the latest version of Telerik, its device and OS agnostic mobile development platform that combine UI tools and cloud services to build apps. This comes on the heels of the Progress’s announcement that it had finalized the purchase of Telerik AD in December 2014.The Telerik Platform offers tools and services that can be adopted individually or as a...
Why is Android Good for Enterprise
Monday, March 3, 2014 by Catherine Merzlova
Android has gained a reputation as a very reliable and
convenient mobile operating system both for users and developers in the
consumer segment.
And now Google wants to move beyond its place as the most
popular operating system among consumers (Google reported more than 1 billion device
activations through September 2013), but also to make Android a trustwor...
New App Monetization Opportunity Available for Developers Through New Linkify SDK
Thursday, February 27, 2014 by Richard Harris
New startup Linkify has announced the general availability of its SDK which provides developers the ability to recognize, extract and convert “things of interest” to a user and connect them with relevant information from the web as opposed to submitting a traditional word-based query via a search engine.The company coined a term for this service - “Semantic AR...
Why Android is Good for the Enterprise
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 by Catherine Merzlova
Android has gained a reputation of being a very reliable
and inexpensive mobile operating system both for users and developers, but so far has lacked credibility in the enterprise.As it stands today most enterprise apps are developed on Apple's iOS, but Google isn't throwing in the towel just yet and now their aim is to make it's Andro...
The Future of PhoneGap
Saturday, December 28, 2013 by Marko Lehtimaki
Adobe, the
current owner of the popular HTML5 hybrid app framework PhoneGap, has
traditionally focused on the creation of multimedia and creativity software
products. In more recent years, Adobe has been betting heavily on HTML5. It
remains that creative professionals are Adobe’s bread and butter, and this
focus sometimes requires product decisions which might not ...
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...
Are you over thinking your app UI design
Monday, January 7, 2013 by Richard Harris
We have a saying around here and it is "big chief tablet". It simply implies keep things simple enough where you can use crayons and a big cheap tablet to explain it. Many times this is also true when it comes to app development.Being developers one of our characteristics is that we tend to dig into the subterranean level of system architecture in order to reverse...