Advantages of 5G for the mobile app development industry
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 by Austin Harris
In an era where the internet is integral to our daily lives, from finding the nearest grocery store to having those groceries delivered to our doorstep, the role of mobile applications is more crucial than ever. With the advent of 5G technology, the mobile app development industry stands on the brink of a transformative period. This new generation of wireless technology...
Most hated apps in every country
Monday, August 29, 2022 by Richard Harris
According to a recent study by DotNek, smartphone users worldwide collectively download 250 million apps daily on average. While app usage is higher than ever, customer satisfaction with mobile apps has fallen in recent years, driving many mobile users into a love-hate relationship with their smartphones and the apps that populate them.
There is a multitude of reason...
Fastest growing crypto apps in Europe are MetaMask and KuCoin
Friday, May 20, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
Recent data from Cryptomonday.de indicates that KuCoin and MetaMask are the Fastest Growing Crypto apps in Europe. They had a combined 3M Installs in the first quarter of 2022.
KuCoin and MetaMask are the fastest growing crypto apps in Europe
Cryptomonday.de CEO Jonathan Merry attributes the faster growth rate of these apps to solid user growth in Russia, Turkey, ...
OutSystems launches Project Neo platform
Thursday, November 18, 2021 by Austin Harris
OutSystems has unveiled an application platform that enables development teams to build state-of-the-art cloud applications. Today, more than 14 million people use apps created on the OutSystems platform. Customers rely on OutSystems to build everything from mobile apps and consumer websites to workgroup apps and extensions of other core systems like Microsoft, SAP...
Developer edition of Incognia fraud prevention solution has launched
Tuesday, May 4, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Incognia announced the launch of its Developer Edition, a free version of Incognia’s mobile fraud prevention solution for mobile app developers. The offering allows mobile developers to add frictionless fraud prevention to fintech and mcommerce apps, enabling superior UX design and account security within their apps. Developers benefit from Incognia’s rapid ...
What you are missing about DevOps
Friday, July 24, 2020 by Richard Harris
DevOps and Kubernetes has challenges but most of them are centered around common misunderstandings or rushing into things too quickly. Kevin Crawley is a Developer Advocate at Containous and offers his thoughts with ADM about how you can overcome many of the challenges, along with some sharing some best practices, and even the solution to the prisoner’s dilemma.
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Android P developer notes
Wednesday, August 8, 2018 by Austin Harris
The official Android Pie release has been announced in a Google blog post which promises the rollout of some pretty substantial changes to authentication, navigation UI, task prediction, and more. With the software currently in beta and waiting for its official release, it’s important that developers get ready to start planning their next moves in order to strike ...
Tunity launches SDK to let developers build TV audio streaming apps
Tuesday, August 7, 2018 by Richard Harris
Tunity announced the debut of Tunity SDK for Audio. An SDK that gives any customer-facing business, from restaurants to gyms, airports, and universities, the ability to implement a white-labeled version of Tunity’s deep learning TV audio streaming technology. This allows users to hear live audio from muted televisions directly on their existing mobile devices. Tun...
MoveWith is using Feed.fm now
Monday, April 9, 2018 by Austin Harris
Feed.fm has announces that MoveWith is utilizing its music-as-a-service product to provide Movers (MoveWith users) with curated popular music to emulate the in-person experience of being coached by a boutique fitness instructor. Key to MoveWith’s innovative fitness approach is providing motivation from multiple coaches, helping MoveWith grow over 50% every month with a ...
Why enterprises will modernize their enterprise apps this year
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 by Richard Harris
Sapho and IDG Communications have released the results of a survey targeting 160 IT Directors and Chief Information and Technology Officers at enterprise companies with more than 1,000 employees. The results show an overwhelming number (78%) of respondents planning to upgrade their organization’s enterprise applications this year in an effort to provide employees with b...
Mobile apps are key to success in retail
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 by Richard Harris
Apps are the preeminent way for retailers to reach your customers. Whether you are getting consumers to your app, measuring their engagement, encouraging purchases, analyzing their sentiment or expanding to new markets, app data will fuel your mobile success and thereby your company’s success. From competitive benchmarking to international expansion, App Annie has ...
The evolution of APMs
Wednesday, September 27, 2017 by Shlomi Gian
The World Wide Web became publicly available in August of 1991. Within a few years, PCs became an essential household item and short after it was already clear that the existing infrastructure was not made to scale. Web pages featuring "404 error" codes were a common aggravating flow in the user experience.To help the web scale and ease user frustration, CDN (Cont...
Health and fitness apps usage report from Flurry
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 by Richard Harris
As health and fitness apps have become widely popular over the past few years (usage grew by over 330% in the last three years), this industry is opening new doors for app developers and advertisers alike. Flurry Analytics has a recently released their latest analytics report on the usage of health and fitness apps. Here are a few of their findings in the report:- Many ...
The mobile printing six best practices for developers
Monday, August 14, 2017 by Patrick Chen
When creating apps, a developer works hard to ensure optimal functionality and a great user experience - so it's critical that an app is truly the best it can be for its audience. These days, ensuring functionality and engagement means adding mobile print to an app. Mobile printing is an unmet need in many apps: According to an InfoTrends study, 95 percent of consumers ...
Fillr reaches 100 million monthly active users
Thursday, August 10, 2017 by Austin Harris
Fillr has announced that its mobile Autofill as a Service platform now reaches 100 million monthly active users worldwide. Providing one-click, accurate, and secure autofill for checkout forms, the Fillr Autofill as a Service (FAaaS) platform helps mobile digital commerce businesses take advantage of the exploding growth in mobile commerce, which claims 90 percent of mo...
Weather apps have the highest mobile ad eCPM finds new report
Thursday, June 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
A new Q1 2017 report from Smaato was just released. Titled the "Global Trends in Mobile Advertising Report", data was analyzed from 300 billion mobile ad impressions served on its exchange each month and found that mobile ad space is more valuable than ever before as global eCPMs grew almost 50 percent year-over-year.Fueled by explosive growth in the Asia-Pacific ...
FFTF to expose Senators who are voting to allow ISP's sell your information
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 by Richard Harris
Digital rights group Fight for the Future, known for organizing massive protests against SOPA and for net neutrality, has announced that - if the bill passes - they will unleash billboards with the names of every member of Congress who votes to gut the FCC’s Internet privacy rules that prevent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like Comcast and Verizon from selling their...
Insights on push alert frequency to improve new app user retention
Monday, March 27, 2017 by Richard Harris
Mobile growth company Urban Airship detailed industry findings from its mobile app retention study, spanning new users’ first 90-days of app usage within retail, media, sports & recreation and utility/productivity. By analyzing the frequency of messaging users received and their corresponding retention rates, Urban Airship provides a deeper understanding that dispel...
JBoss Fuse 6.3 integration services for Red Hat OpenShift released
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 by Austin Harris
Red Hat announced the latest update to the Red Hat JBoss Fuse-based integration service on Red Hat OpenShift. With the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud-based SaaS systems, and new data streams, organizations can face increasing pressure to more quickly deliver innovative new services. Traditional centralized, monolithic ESB-style integration approaches...
Women are the most serious about mobile dating apps
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 by Austin Harris
Liftoff has released an infographic (below) illuminating trends in mobile dating behavior. The data shows that North Americans are the most “swipe-happy” when it comes to mobile dating apps, with women in general being the most profitable users. The infographic also showcases trends around engagement and examines geographical differences between North America, Euro...
Sean Carron tells us about Team Smiles and HappinessasaService
Monday, December 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
Happiness-as-a-Service is an application that allows kids awaiting a transplant, or those who received a transplant, to request a wish, and then connects them with benefactors who can fund their wishes. It enables users to nominate a critically ill child, see a child’s wish in their local community, and donate - among other features. The users can create &ld...
Yahoo explains what communitainment is and how it's mobile's killer app
Tuesday, December 6, 2016 by Simon Khalaf
Last August, in Flurry’s app usage report, we declared that “Content is King: Again.” That report showed U.S. users’ time spent consuming media in apps had grown from 46 mins/day in 2014 to 96 mins/day in 2015, a whopping 108% year-over-year increase. Curious to clock this year’s usage, we ran the numbers again and found that time spent con...
What is offlinefirst application design anyway
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
Offline first application development is the latest iteration of progressive enhancement in application development. It means creating applications to work without internet access in the most resource constrained environments like underground train stations or in remote places abroad. Features can be added to make the applications more robust once internet access is ava...
Adobe finds enterprise mobile app usage and investment are on the rise
Thursday, October 27, 2016 by Austin Harris
Adobe released the results of its annual Enterprise Mobile Apps Survey report on the adoption and use of enterprise mobile apps, including opportunities and challenges for businesses looking to increase productivity and leverage apps as a competitive advantage.Key findings include:- Enterprise mobile app usage and investment are on the rise: 69% of company departments a...
Top 100 Apps Continue to See High User Engagement According Report
Sunday, August 28, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Opera Mediaworks had released its latest quarterly mobile marketing report - Mobile First Insights (MFI) - which for the Q2 focused on the growth of brand performance including direct response tactics for Fortune 1000 brands. The findings in the report are derived from app usage statistics on the Opera Mediaworks platform.From a user standpoint, the report shows a nearl...
Kony MobileFabric Release Offers New Microservices and Object Services Technology
Thursday, July 28, 2016 by Richard Harris
Kony has released the latest edition of its MobileFabric platform, the company’s mobile middleware solution designed to be used to rapidly build mobile backend applications. This release, MobileFabric 7.0, offers a new model-driven approach to mobile app development using microservices and includes object services that make it easier and cheaper to develop, maintain and...
Four Key Considerations to Get Past App Replacement
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 by Chris Klotzbach
Today, with over three million mobile apps available for consumers, app replacement - the deletion of an app due to alternative options - has become a major issue for developers looking to increase, let alone maintain, retention. In fact, according Yahoo’s research, nearly 50% of smartphone dominant users replace apps on a weekly basis. Furthermore, most apps are d...
Four Ways to Boost IT Performance with ApplicationAware Network Performance Monitoring
Thursday, June 16, 2016 by Amrutha Aprameya
In an era of unified IT, you can no longer afford to take a silo-based approach to monitoring and troubleshooting IT problems. It’s time for network engineers, server admins and application engineers to expand beyond their particular domains and department-specific tools. It’s time to embrace a new, integrated approach to network and application monitoring that lets you...
App User Abandonment Numbers Drop Slightly Year to Year
Friday, May 27, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Localytics has released its fifth annual app user retention study, which measures app loyalty and abandonment across its user base of 37,000 apps.To conduct the research, Localytics measured the user retention and app abandonment. User retention was defined as the percentage of users who return to an app eleven or more times. User abandonment was defined as the percenta...
Five Common Mobile App Security Vulnerabilities And How to Fix Them
Saturday, April 30, 2016 by Seth Jaslow
Mobile app security leaves much to be desired. That was the conclusion of a 2016 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) study which found that a staggering 96 percent of 36,000 mobile apps failed at least one of 10 privacy checks. Three years ago, a similar HPE study found that 97 percent of 2,000 apps reviewed held insecure private information. As mobile app usage conti...
Flurry's Insights on the "7 year itch" and What it Means to Developers
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
Chris Klotzbach, Director Flurry from Yahoo, reached out to us to talk about the affect of “seven year itch” on the mobile industry, focusing on how Flurry has seen mobile growth plateau over the last 7 years.ADM: At your Mobile Developer Conference in February, Flurry shared that mobile growth is plateauing. Can you elaborate on that more?Klotzbach: In 2015, overall ap...
Microsoft Cloud App Security is Now Generally Available
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
The Microsoft Cloud App Security platform is now generally available offering a cloud-delivered service built for cloud apps.The platform offers two main components: (1) Discovery of cloud usage in a company using log-based traffic analysis and (2) Granular control for sanctioned apps leveraging API-based integration. With platform’s tools to help uncover Shadow IT, ass...
Companies Are Falling Short in Meeting Consumer Mobile Expectations
Thursday, March 31, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
According to a recent research study, companies are still finding it difficult to create mobile experiences that meet consumer expectations. The study was conducted by Sitecore which polled 4,500 consumers in 11 countries about their attitudes toward mobile interactions, expectations, and experiences. We recently visited with Scott Anderson, CMO of Sitecore, to dis...
Here's How to Maximize Your App's Potential Using Data
Monday, March 28, 2016 by Itamar Benedy
Congratulations! Development and testing are done, and your app is ready to release. Before you enter the highly competitive mobile market, you need to realize that over 2,500 apps are submitted to the 3 biggest stores daily, and 70% of apps generate less than 5,000 downloads each. In the PC era, we couldn’t update a game or any other product after its release, nor...
SOOMLA Report Reveals Insight Into Mobile Gaming Monetization
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 by Gur Dotan
Approximately a month ago, App Developer Magazine published an article following a Flurry report on the growth of app usage. It showed some interesting stats, including a staggering fact that app usage grew 58% in the last year alone, while time spent on phablets grew 334% year-on-year, proving to be the dominant form factor.What was left out of that report was the Game...