Business solution built for Unity 3D
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 by Richard Harris
One of the greatest challenges faced by game-makers is balancing precious resources: it is the tension between creating what they and their players love, and the need to include complex business functionality. Launching today, Beamable is a new enterprise that enables game-makers to turn their products into scalable, sustainable businesses by incorporating best-of-class...
New features from WSO2 API Manager
Friday, April 10, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
APIs are the core building blocks of digital businesses—assembling data, events and services from within the organization, throughout ecosystems, and across devices. This is driving demands to maximize adoption and reuse across internal and external portals and API marketplaces; ensure API security; and support modern architectures, including containers, microserv...
Lightning Platform Mobile from Salesforce aims to futureproof apps
Thursday, January 24, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
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...
Kony now supports making progressive web apps
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 by Richard Harris
Kony, Inc. announced new enhancements of its Kony AppPlatform to support Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). Kony is the first vendor to support enterprise-grade, low-code PWA development for mission-critical apps. Developers can use Kony’s visual low-code platform to develop PWAs, while leveraging backend services and third-party integrations for building enterprise app...
Box Elements for developers powers content experiences in their apps
Friday, July 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
Box, Inc., a cloud content management company, has introduced Box Elements, a new set of tools for businesses of all sizes to bring their content experience into any application built with their Platform. The first set of tools, UI Elements, is generally available and includes four pre-built, customizable components of their user interface. The company also announced th...
What's happening at IBM Interconnect 2017
Monday, March 20, 2017 by Richard Harris
At IBM Interconnect, IBM’s largest cloud computing event of the year, they have announced a whole laundry list of new news items - like client adoption, tech breakthroughs and work they are doing to arm the next gen of cognitive developers. Here's a brief overview on what you might be missing at their latest event:IBM Cloud announcementsNew software and services designe...
The hidden hazards of mobile app development
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 by Burley Kawasaki
The transition from desktop to mobile computing is not a question of if, but when. According to Gartner, within the next five years, 70 percent of software interactions in enterprises will occur on mobile devices. Little wonder, then, that organizations that are just embarking on their mobile app development journeys can often be tempted to assume the voyage will be smo...
Why MicroApps are an emerging development trend to watch in 2017
Monday, January 30, 2017 by Paul Swaddle
With SMEs(Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) emerging every day, the apps world has seen a swift growth in the enterprise apps category. MicroApps help users restructure, streamline, and in turn manage a crucial business processes. MicroApps provide a highly focused, task-based functionality that let users access the app, interact and then close the app all with maximu...
Just what is the DroneDeploy app market
Monday, November 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
PwC has predicted the global market for commercial drone technology to reach as much as $127 billion by 2020, and the FAA believes at least 543,000 drones will be in civilian hands by 2020. Developers will play a critical role in helping business adopt drones on every job site - whether it’s to monitor construction sites, improve farming methods, verify insurance claims...
Axway just released AMPLIFY so you can run and scale APIenabled services
Thursday, November 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
Axway, a catalyst for transformation, has introduced Axway AMPLIFY, a new data integration and engagement platform that empowers organizations to unlock business value from a vast array of data sources to transform the customer experience. Developers, architects and administrators can use AMPLIFY for everything they need to power their unique inventions, from apps, conn...
5 app monetization strategies to remember in 2016
Monday, October 31, 2016 by Dickey Singh
Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, deep learning and user interfaces, our mobile devices are more accessible and user-friendly than ever before. People are downloading more apps and spending more time in those apps. There are now over four million apps in the Apple and Google app stores – Apple received 75,000-80,000 app submissions per month in last few mon...
HPE AppPulse Web Released to Help You With User Experience Problems
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
Hewlett Packard Enterprise just released HPE AppPulse Web, a new web-based module for HPE’s Application Performance Monitoring (APM) software solution - HPE AppPulse Suite.HPE AppPulse Web helps developers quickly analyze, identify, and correct problematic areas of the user experience by providing them with a holistic view of key performance monitoring analyti...
Kony MobileFabric Now Offers Enhanced Support for Apps on AWS
Monday, August 15, 2016 by Richard Harris
Kony has announced enhanced support for applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and updates to its offerings in AWS Marketplace. The announcement includes new support for AWS Mobile and IoT offerings that make it easier and faster for mobile app developers using Kony MobileFabric to develop, build and deploy apps on the AWS Cloud.Kony MobileFabric 7 provides a...
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...
NS1's Kris Beevers Discusses DevOps Need for Dedicated DNS
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 by Richard Harris
We spoke with Kris Beevers, CEO of NS1, to learn more about how DevOps is changing the way applications are developed and how DNS technology is evolving to keep up with today’s application delivery challenges. These developments form the background for the introduction of NS1’s new offering, Dedicated DNS.Dedicated DNS is a managed DNS service for enterprises, service p...
Facebook Is Shuttering the Parse App Development Platform
Monday, February 1, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Facebook’s Parse development platform will be fully retired after a year-long period ending on January 28, 2017, according to an announcement on the Parse blog. The company is providing a migration tool to take data from Parse apps and move it to another MongoDB database platform. Parse is also open sourcing the Parse server.Here is a portion of the Parse announcement, ...
Security Brief Protecting Against the OWASP Mobile Top 10
Thursday, January 7, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
There are over 1.6 million Android apps in the Google Play store. Over 1.5 million apps are in the Apple App Store. For mobile app hackers, today’s mobile environment has never offered a more fertile landscape to phish for user information or implant mobile malware. And never in history has more information been available to exploit.To understand how mobile application ...
The Unsung Side Of Mobile Apps: Bootstrapping Development With Mobile Backend Services
Monday, December 7, 2015 by Mike Thompson
There’s more to a successful mobile app than a slick UI and cross-platform availability. Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) makes developing compelling, full featured apps faster and easier.When building applications, every budding developer knows the temptation of fixating on the UI at the expense of algorithms, data structures and state management. After al...
Kony's MobileFabric Cross Platform Development Solution Available on AWS Marketplace
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Developers looking to leverage the advantage of cross-platform development in a cloud based environment can now take advantage of Kony MobileFabric in AWS Marketplace, which includes the availability of a free Developer Edition.Kony is an enterprise mobility solutions company which provides one of the leading cloud-based mobile application development platforms (MADP). ...
Marmalade Offers New BackendasaService for Cross Platform Game Developers
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Marmalade is now offering Marmalade Game Services offering a new backend service powered by GameSparks, a cross platform Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider for games. Through the GameSparks platform and integration via their C++ SDK, Marmalade Game Services allows developers to build the server-side features of their game, offering the ability to connec...
Amazon's New API Gateway Offers New API implementations on AWS
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 by Richard Harris
Amazon’s new API Gateway is a pay-as-you-go service which offers the opportunity to build and run application backends and connect applications to API implementations that run on AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), or a publicly addressable service hosted outside of AWS. The platform allows companies to implement APIs that wrap around, enhance, and effe...
Kony Launches MobileFabric Backend Mobile Infrastructure on AWS
Monday, July 13, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Kony has released new versions of its Kony MobileFabric backend mobile infrastructure in the AWS Marketplace, including a free Developer Edition. The new release caters to developers who are building mobile and IoT apps on AWS by providing access to Kony MobileFabric to address their backend infrastructure needs while developing a mobile front-end with support for ...
New Startup Mode Announces the Release of its IoT Cloud Platform
Monday, May 18, 2015 by Richard Harris
San Mateo, California based startup Mode has announced the introduction of its new IoT cloud platform that connects mobile applications with hardware devices in real time. The platform provides a cloud API for devices, mobile clients and application servers. IoT developers can utilize MODE as the backend infrastructure throughout the entire development cycle, from proto...
Embarcadero Releases New App Analytics Platform for Connected Devices and IoT
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Embarcadero Technologies has launched Embarcadero AppAnalytics, a hosted backend service to provide application developers with detailed information on how users are interacting with desktop, mobile, and wearable applications built with RAD Studio XE8. The component enables developers to create better apps by tracking anonymous user events within existing VCL Windo...
SOA is Not a Mobile Backend
Friday, May 1, 2015 by Bill Appleton
The rise of mobile devices finally pushed the adoption of web services into the mainstream of application development. But years before this, companies used web services to build sophisticated service-oriented architectures for application development and integration. Some of the API management companies have even tried to adopt SOA systems for the new world of mobile d...
AnyPresence Launches JustAPIs Platform to Build and Deploy RESTful APIs
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AnyPresence, an enterprise backend-as-a-service (MBaaS) provider, has released a new service called JustAPIs - a solution for building and deploying modern RESTful APIs.JustAPIs is designed to solve the API building challenge from the perspective of the enterprise app developer. The platform provides a quick, easy way to define and deploy APIs with specific signatures (...
Create and Manage Your Own API With Dell's New Boomi Platform
Thursday, March 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
Dell Software has announced that its Dell Boomi platform has released full API lifecycle management, creating a multi-purpose Platform as a Service (PaaS) that supports major integration use cases, master data management (MDM) and API management. It enables companies to integrate any combination of cloud and on-premises applications without software, appliances or codin...
Embarcadero Technologies Grows its RAD Studio Platform with Acquisition of Castalia for Delphi and Usertility from TwoDesk Software
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Embarcadero Technologies is expanding its suite of software solutions for application and database development by acquiring Castalia for Delphi and Usertility from TwoDesk Software. Embarcadero will incorporate the productivity features of Castalia into its RAD Studio integrated development environment (IDE) to enhance and optimize the coding experience for both Ob...
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...
Suhas Uliyar, Vice President of Mobile Strategy with Oracle, Provides His Predictions on the Future for App Developers and the Mobile Enterprise
Thursday, January 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
I recently had a Q&A session with Oracle’s Suhas Uliyar, who serves as the company’s Vice President of Mobile Strategy. During the talk Suhas provided insights into what app developers can expect as it relates to the mobile enterprise. Richard: Will there ever be a standard development approach for the enterprise or mobile in general? Suhas: In general, no...
AppDynamics Offers Developers a Freemium Version Its Mobile App Behavioral Analytics Platform
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 by Richard Harris
AppDynamics is releasing a self-service freemium version of its Mobile Real-User Monitoring (RUM), a solution for collecting mobile application behavioral analytics and managing the 24/7 performance of mobile applications in real time. After 15 days free use of the full featured trial product, the mobile crash analytics capabilities remain free forever, with a data rete...
Intel’s Latest XDK HTML5 Mobile Development Platform Release Focuses on Cordova Plugins and Mobile Monetization
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Intel has launched the latest release of its mobile development XDK, which provides a HTML5 and Javascript platform for mobile development. In this release, the company has focused on Cordova plugins and mobile monetization.The Intel XDK now offers full support of Cordova APIs and plugins on iOS, Android, and Windows 8. Developers can take advantage of the number of plu...
Parse Releases PHP SDK Offering a Company First for Server Side Language
Monday, August 11, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Parse has released the Parse PHP SDK, which will enable Parse integration for a whole new class of apps and different use cases. This is the company’s first SDK for a server-side language and the first to be truly open-source.Before the new SDK, if a developer wanted to access Parse from PHP, the REST API was the only option. Now everything needed to build PHP...
KidoZen Announces HTML5 App Designer Platform
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 by Richard Harris
KidoZen has announced the release of its HTML5 App Designer, a visual drag-and-drop tool to build prototype and production-ready, cross-platform HTML5 applications. The HTML5 App Designer is a new feature enhancement to the KidoZen enterprise mobile platform. HTML5 App Designer offers jQuery support with the ability to choose from over 30 jQuery Mobile po...
Qt 5.3 Offers New Version of Cross Platform App and UI Development Framework
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Qt, a cross-platform application and user interface (UI) development framework, is now available under version Qt 5.3 which offers improved documentation and new coding. The Qt for Windows Runtime port has now reached the supported Beta state. The platform upgrade also offers several improvements on desktop application development including the introduction of...
