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Modern cross browser testing helps engineers test faster

Thursday, October 1, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

Applitools announced an industry report empirically proving that modern cross browser testing powered by Visual AI helps engineers test 18.2x faster across the full test cycle including writing, running, analyzing, reporting, and maintaining tests. Data for the report was sourced from 203 engineers across 75 countries who spent 3,112 hours completing the Ultrafast Cr...

Mobiconf 2018 will return to Poland

Tuesday, July 24, 2018 by Austin Harris

Mobiconf 2018 will soon be coming to Krakow, Poland inside the Multikino cinema theater. Taking place on the 4-5th October, the mobile developer conference will boast topic titles like “What Mom Never Told You about Multi-threading (mobile edition)” and “Application Security in Agile Mobile Development.” And featuring talks from Fernando Cejas, D...

Research suggests a diverse need for video communications PaaS

Friday, December 1, 2017 by Austin Harris

Vidyo in collaboration with WebRTC ventures has released a report titled “The Rise of Embedded Video Communications: Trends in Video-Enabled Apps.” The report shows that communications platforms-as-a-service (PaaS) is a top choice for those who are planning embedded video projects, with 49% of respondents saying that they plan to use a communications PaaS to initiate an...

First annual Cookie Jam on Cookie Day

Wednesday, November 29, 2017 by Richard Harris

Jam City, a Los Angeles-based mobile game developer, announced the first annual Holiday Cookie Jam. Holiday Cookie Jam is a cookie competition between social media superstars and sisters, Justine and Jenna Ezarik, as they vie to have their cookie recipe featured in Jam City’s hit mobile game, Cookie Jam.Starting today, viewers can vote for their favorite cookie recipe o...

How one company can improve your social interaction through VR

Tuesday, January 3, 2017 by Austin Harris

Virtual Reality(VR) was the latest and greatest concept of 2016, but Christmas shopping reports of 2016 saw that the VR industry underperformed its predictions. Because VR is still in its infancy, many companies, who have lagged behind, are scrambling to make more realistic content for users to provide the best possible experiences. But let's face it, in VR every detail...

Developers Can Create HTML5 and Native Content for New Ubuntu Phone

Wednesday, February 11, 2015 by Richard Harris

Canonical has announced the first phone running the open source OS Ubuntu, the Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition, which is available in limited quantities in Europe from the Spanish device maker BQ. Availability of the phone will be announced through @Ubuntu and @bqreaders on Twitter as well as Ubuntu G+ and Ubuntu Facebook.The Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition abandons the app mod...

What Web Developers Need to Know About Opera Mini 8 for iOS

Monday, June 30, 2014 by Richard Harris

Opera’s new Opera Mini 8 for iOS is a completely redesigned product that, for the first time, offers three different browser modes, two of which save time and money for the consumer or get them connected on slow networks that other browsers can’t handle.For those who have upgraded from the previous version, it will start in Mini mode. New installs will open in Turbo mod...

Hybrid Web Applications: The Best of All Worlds for Mobile Application Development

Tuesday, April 1, 2014 by Tuukka Ahoniemi

Mobile application developers face a dilemma. The mobile device landscape is fragmented and fast-moving. To be sure of covering as much of the market as possible, applications need to support multiple operating system environments, such as Android, iOS and BlackBerry OS. But these environments have different architectures and application programming interfaces (API...

Original Intel HTML5 Web App XDK to Disappear in February

Tuesday, January 21, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson

A number of big tech companies are seeking the holy grail of an HTML5 web app mobile platform that will unseat Apple and Google. Intel is one of these, and they are busily working to update their offering as recently outlined by Joe Wolf, Product Manager for the Intel XDK.From a blog post by Joe, “We intend to end-of-life the original Intel XDK (originally called t...

Eight Elements To A Successful Game

Sunday, August 4, 2013 by Carlos Icaza

I get to see a lot of your great games all the way from inception to being released on the App Store and/orAndroid Market by working at Lanica.A lot of you send me your games to figure out a problem here and there, or ask me questions about how to do XYZ or this-and-that. Some of you send me assets without blinking; other of you are reluctant to send me your assets...

Google Babel: What Is It

Monday, April 22, 2013 by Richard Harris

It's a messaging service by Google that when fully released, could change the way we all communicate across our devices. It's is rumored to be available on Android, Web, iOS, Blackberry, and others.Messaging so far has a fundamental flaw and that is fragmentation. We get messages on our mobiles in many ways, SMS, MMS, Email, Skype, then on the desktop there are an entir...

Facebook Home: A Trojan Horse for Future Changes

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 by Richard Harris

As an app developer watching the Facebook Home platform roll out to the public, there is an underground river of questions I have as it pertains to the overall concept itself. Things like, will there eventually be a Facebook app store that could diminish the overall Android Play store? Will there be a VoIP part of the device? What about all of the Facebook Games al...