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iOS app pre-ordering process guide

Monday, June 2, 2025 by Richard Harris

Pre-ordering apps on the iOS App Store is a powerful tool for developers looking to build excitement and gauge interest before a product's official release. Apple provides a robust system that enables developers to make their apps available for pre-order, allowing users to view the product page, learn about the features, and place a pre-order that automatically down...

Publisher Portal for in game audio ad monetization from Odeeo

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 by Richard Harris

Odeeo has launched its new Publisher Portal which gives games publishers access to industry first comprehensive features, such as analytics and reporting tools previously only available for traditional display and video ads, including impressions, revenue and engagement rates. Previously across the in-game audio ad industry, publishers had limited control over ad pla...

EV charging station app from LeapCharger out now

Tuesday, November 21, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger

LeapCharger, the electric vehicle (EV) charging company announced that its app is now available for download on the Google PlayStore. The launch comes on the heels of a series of beta tests conducted in numerous key and target markets to ensure proper mobile connectivity and availability, including Dubai, the United States, Canada, and India. According to LeapCh...

Huawei and Bitrise partner to enable App Developers

Friday, November 5, 2021 by Freeman Lightner

Bitrise, the Mobile DevOps company that organizations use to get mobile apps to market faster, has announced its work with Huawei. The global smart device provider has tapped Bitrise as part of its mission to attract the world’s best mobile apps into its 530M+ user AppGallery, in turn enabling app creators to more easily enter the restrictive Chinese market. ...

Ubuntu Impish Indri lands from Canonical

Monday, October 25, 2021 by Freeman Lightner

Canonical released Ubuntu 21.10, the environment for cloud-native developers and AI/ML innovators across the desktop, devices, and cloud. "As open source becomes the new default, we aim to bring Ubuntu to all the corners of the enterprise and all the places developers want to innovate. From the biggest public clouds to the tiniest devices, from DGX ser...

Mobile ads SDK Vungle updates to deliver a better experience

Thursday, July 18, 2019 by Austin Harris

Vungle unveiled updates to its software development kit with new features including Cache Optimization, which aims to deliver Vungle's creatives faster than ever. Additionally, the company also announced support for a new medium sized rectangle (MREC) ad format that adds Vungle's quality video ad content while maintaining the in-app user experience. The ...

Kintone's redesigned mobile app

Friday, June 21, 2019 by Austin Harris

Kintone announced a newly redesigned mobile app with a brand new user interface, better search and navigation capabilities, more intuitive workflows, updated notifications, and more. Kintone’s new mobile app was rebuilt to provide a more seamless experience for business users on the go. The challenge most no-code solutions face is delivering a coherent experien...

App localization done right

Thursday, December 27, 2018 by Neal Thoms

Mobile devices are everywhere, and so are the apps that run on them. Vast numbers of smartphones mean vast numbers of users – and irrespective of the language they speak or where they live, these users demand a wide range of specialized applications. If you’re a mobile app developer, you may have already considered adapting your product to other markets. ...

Common mobile app testing mistakes to avoid

Friday, December 7, 2018 by Rob Mason

Consumers downloaded more than 175 billion mobile apps in 2017. The cost of developing a mobile app can exceed $1 million, with the median cost falling in the range of $100,000 to $500,000. Multiply those numbers together and it’s apparent that a startling amount of resources are spent yearly on mobile app development. The bad news? Most of those resources are ...

Mobile game developers get another playable ads platform choice

Thursday, August 16, 2018 by Richard Harris

A playable ads solution has been launched by Synative, which is now available to all game developers. The Synative playable ad platform allows users to design and create their own ads, eliminating the expensive and time-intensive process of working with outside designers and web coders. “Synative is reinventing the way mobile game developers design and create p...

Postman update gives developers more freebies

Thursday, August 2, 2018 by Austin Harris

Postman has announced updates to their free flagship app. Starting immediately, all Postman free users will be able to create Postman teams, use team workspaces and use all of Postman’s valuable collaboration features. Prior to this update, teams were available exclusively to customers of Postman’s paid plans, Pro and Enterprise. With this release, all Postm...

Vita finalizes secure NDA for public beta testers

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 by Austin Harris

Vita Mobile Systems, Inc. has announced the Company is finalizing its plans to begin public beta testing across the US. The Company has worked with its legal team to finalize a secure non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to be used with the select public beta testers. The VITA app has already been undergoing internal beta testing and utilizing large social media influencers a...

DeviceID reset fraud is now top ad fraud method

Wednesday, September 27, 2017 by Richard Harris

AppsFlyer has introduced the general availability of a holistic, integrated solution - Protect360 - that helps immunize advertisers against the cost and loss of mobile install fraud. In beta testing with select clients, Protect360 revealed DeviceID Reset Fraud was more widespread than previously known, and will cost advertisers an estimated $1.1-$1.3 billion in 2017 whi...

iOS 11 developer tips to maximize your opportunities

Friday, August 4, 2017 by Mark Price

One decade after the launch of the first iPhone, Apple is set to introduce the latest iOS. Deemed by the tech behemoth as the world's most advanced mobile operating system, iOS 11, still in public beta test, is packed with capabilities designed to help developers create cohesive and immersive user experiences. Following are new features and long-anticipated upgrades inc...

How mobile app testing has changed

Friday, August 4, 2017 by Richard Harris

Technologies are rapidly evolving and ways of testing them are changing too. But one thing remains true - product quality must be high. Therefore, it is important to have a clear vision on how you will guarantee that your product is working as planned. Depending on the project, you can build your own testing team, hire professional consultants or do a combination of bot...

What VR developers need to know when creating educational apps

Thursday, May 25, 2017 by Baptiste Grève

From dissecting frogs without the guilty consciousnesses, taking a history class in ancient Rome, or swimming with marine animals in the Galapagos islands, VR is offering modern students a more authentic and immersive learning experience, in which they can interact with dimensional environments and place themselves in different times and locations.While the initial hype...

Repealing and replacing excel for marketers with AppsFlyer's new Pivot

Monday, March 27, 2017 by Richard Harris

Match Group (the world’s leading provider of dating products, with over 45 brands including Match, OkCupid, Tinder and more) found that they were wasting lots of marketing team time trying to align front-end and back-end data to make spend optimization decisions for their app marketing campaigns. They approached AppsFlyer to develop a tool to he...

Bugsee emerges from stealth to make finding bugs in mobile apps easier

Tuesday, January 24, 2017 by Richard Harris

New bug fixing tool allows app developers to spend more time improving functionality and user experience and less time logging, explaining and fixing buggy apps.Bugsee announced its corporate launch and the general availability of its bug reporting and crash analytics tool for mobile app developers. Bugsee is the only bug reporting solution that continuously captures vi...

Catching up With the Developer of the New Microskin App

Thursday, September 8, 2016 by Richard Harris

The company Microskin just launched one of the most sophisticated skin matching iPhone apps in the app store. Microskin creates personalized, color-matched line of waterproof "second skin" products. We caught up with the developer of the app, Don Fletcher of Vinclaro Pty Ltd. to discuss his history in the app store, and a bit about his approach to development.ADM:...

Sequel Launches API Integration for its Chatbot Platform for Messaging Apps

Thursday, June 2, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson

Sequel has launched out of beta its chatbot platform that provides the ability to build conversational personas for entertainment and media. The platform provides the ability to build bots for media and entertainment on messenger platforms such as Facebook Messenger, Kik, and Telegram. New features added prior to the launch out of beta include natural language processin...

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...

Testing Processes within App Development Agencies

Wednesday, March 2, 2016 by Martin Poschenrieder

Over the past couple of years I have worked with both traditional “in-house” app development teams, and with several app development companies that focus on client projects, which I will call ‘app agencies’. From my experience and dialogue with both parties, I have seen that app agencies have their own development and testing challenges, compared with in-house developme...

AWS Releases Amazon Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift for Game Development

Monday, February 22, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson

AWS has launched two new products for game developers, Amazon Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift.Amazon LumberyardAmazon Lumberyard is a free, cross-platform, 3D game engine for developers to create games, connect their games to the compute and storage of the AWS Cloud, and engage fans on Twitch. With Amazon Lumberyard’s visual scripting tool, even non-technical users can a...

CircleCI CEO Jim Rose Discusses New Continuous Integration and Deployment Platform

Thursday, December 17, 2015 by Richard Harris

We recently visited with Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI, about the company’s recent release of its new CircleCI Enterprise solution which offers a continuous integration and deployment platform that provides security and configurability that comes from running inside a private cloud or data center.ADM: Can you tell us about CircleCI?Rose: Put simply, we help modern software ...

ARM mbed OS for the IoT Now In Beta

Tuesday, September 22, 2015 by Richard Harris

ARM has announced the ARM mbed OS is now available for beta testing. In addition to the OS release, ARM has announced the mbed Device Connector Beta, mbed Client Beta, mbed Device Server 2.5, and mbed TLS 2.1.0 are scheduled to be released over the next few weeks. Here is a full rundown of the releases:mbed OSThe beta mbed OS is an open source embedded operating sy...

Android Developers Can Now Do Staged Rollouts of Google Play Apps

Saturday, August 1, 2015 by Richard Harris

Google has announced new functionality to help developers beta test their Android apps. Currently, the Google Play Developer Console lets developers release early versions of an app to selected users as an alpha or beta test before pushing updates to full production (much like Apple's TestFlight). The select user group downloads the app on Google Play as normal, bu...

TestNest Lets You Experiment With Your Icons, Screenshots, and More

Wednesday, July 22, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson

TestNest is beta testing a new platform which facilitates App Store page A/B testing, providing developers with the ability to run an experiment and see which icon, screenshots, description, video preview and more are the most attractive to an audience and bring the most installations for an app. Using TestNest, developers can create a web landing page that looks s...

Applivery Offers Prerelease Distribution System for iOS and Android Apps

Wednesday, April 29, 2015 by Richard Harris

Applivery is a new platform for distributing iOS and Android applications for beta testing beyond the traditional testing model. It allows app developers to create white label distribution sites customizing the distribution method (public, registration or password protection).Developers get an app URL - applivery.com/yourapp - that provides the opportunity to manage app...

Pre Production App Monitoring as a Quality Assurance Tool

Friday, April 24, 2015 by Jon Spencer

With the increasing complexity of mobile/web applications and their service-oriented architectures, the elevation of user expectations to levels that were unimaginable only a few years ago, software development teams are more challenged than ever before. Budgets and release cycles are tight, and everyone from finance managers to marketing and sales staff want high-quali...

Site24x7 Launches Beta Version of Android Mobile APM

Tuesday, March 3, 2015 by Richard Harris

Site24x7, a cloud infrastructure monitoring service, has launched a new beta version of its Mobile Application Performance Management (APM), a feature that helps mobile developers manage their mobile apps. The Site24x7 Mobile APM provides visibility into mobile application behavior and helps resolve performance issues that affect end-user experience. Site24x7 helps...

How to Save the Enterprise App after the End of TestFlight

Sunday, February 22, 2015 by Ran Rachlin

When Apple officially shutters its TestFlight beta testing service on February 26, many development teams who have been working with TestFlight will be forced to switch their testing processes to the iTunes Connect Testing service or to search for other alternatives.As builds from old TestFlight versions will not be transferred automatically, developers will need to set...

Apple's TestFlight Is Upgraded to Improve the Ability to Manage External Testers

Tuesday, February 17, 2015 by Richard Harris

Apple’s TestFlight platform has announced it is now easier to manage external testers using the platform. Improvements have been made to provide the ability to organize testers into groups to quickly send builds, provide separate instructions on where to focus, and to apply an action to several testers at once in TestFlight.Apple acquired the TestFlight platform when it...

AMASE Analogy: This Is What a Profitable App Looks like

Monday, January 19, 2015 by Josh Cline

Mobile-app development, marketing, and monetization are all extremely difficult to do well – it’s why very few mobile apps end up being successful.In this article from The Cline Group (I’m the President and CEO), my goal is to provide end-to-end insights into the mobile-user lifecycle. Let’s start by defining a successful mobile app as one that has achieved sustained pr...

Lifestreams Technologies Beta Testing New SaaS Private Label Timeline Service for Web and Mobile Apps

Tuesday, October 28, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson

A new SaaS private-label timeline service has been launched in beta by Lifestreams Technologies. The company has announced the Timeline SDK for web developers and content providers to integrate cloud-based timelines (activity streams) into web and mobile app experiences.The SDK helps developers integrate Lifestreams’ timeline cloud service and includes RESTful, JavaScri...

Mobile Developers Can Invite Up To 1,000 Beta Testers Through Apple’s iOS TestFlight App

Friday, October 24, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson

Apple has announced that developers can now invite up to 1,000 testers to beta test iOS apps by sending them an email invitation through iTunes Connect. Once the individual has accepted the invitation, testers can install the beta app on their iOS devices, get updated builds, and provide feedback, all facilitated through the dedicated iOS TestFlight app.To get an app re...