WWDC24 highlights from Apple
Friday, July 26, 2024 by Austin Harris
Apple recently showcased a series of groundbreaking updates and innovations at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2024 (WWDC24), captivating the developer community with a week of insightful sessions. The event highlighted the latest advancements across various domains, including machine learning, Swift, SwiftUI, spatial computing, and more.
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Get your hyperlocal news fix with the Patch
Wednesday, November 21, 2018 by Richard Harris
Patch has launched a new app for iOS and Android. The Patch app allows users to subscribe to a personalized newsfeed from multiple cities and towns across the U.S. Following a soft launch earlier this year, the app already has over 233,000 downloads and averages a 4.5-star rating on both the Apple and Android app stores.
“Everyone has a different idea of ...
The Android screen notch guide for developers
Monday, August 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
The screen notch on the iPhone X screen was unavoidable with the inclusion of the edge-to-edge OLED screen because the camera and sensors get in the way. So manufactures have to contour the screen around the sensors and camera area, which created the somewhat odd, but always funny “screen notch”.
Until now iOS developers were the only ones that&...
Mobile app design tips for all generations
Thursday, July 12, 2018 by Janani Vasudev
The way we use technology to communicate varies drastically based on age, perhaps most conspicuously within family circles. Communication between a brother and sister, or another generational peer, is typically a much more fluid experience than with a parent, grandparent or distant relative. While younger generations have commonly adopted social media platforms to stay ...
CoachGuitar teaches you guitar and lets us look under the hood
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 by Richard Harris
CoachGuitar is a five-year old, France-based company that offers a unique method of teaching guitar enthusiasts of all skill levels how to play their favorite songs. Using the visual guitar teaching app, millions of students from around the globe download video tutorials and learn to play along. With a typical traffic of 2,000-3,000 downloads per day - and even reaching...
Kony introduces us to AppPlatform V8
Thursday, August 24, 2017 by Richard Harris
Businesses big and small are feeling the mounting pressure of increasing demand by their clients, employees and partners for mobile apps. Many of them struggle to meet this demand. Especially with limited budgets and lack of in-house developer skills, which seem to be the biggest hurdles.To help solve this mobile app dilemma, Kony recently launched its Kony AppPlatform ...
4 proven ways to reduce churn with a mobile app
Thursday, February 23, 2017 by Justin Dunham
Have you read all of the 23,000 articles out there about reducing churn?There are some really great ideas about how to improve your onboarding, how to communicate better, how to segment better. Even how to save customers right before they click the “cancel” button.The underlying problem that these tactics address is the same. Users churn because they don&rsq...
Mobile Marketing Consultant mCordis is Launching new Native App Marketing Course
Thursday, July 28, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
mCordis has announced a new portal for online mobile marketing training courses. The first course available will be “An Introduction to Native Apps,” sponsored by app development company stable|kernel. The Native Apps course starts August 1 and will be available free of charge. Registration is available here.The short course provides an overview of native mobi...
Microsoft Offers Developer Updates for Microsoft Office and Azure Services
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
In addition to the announcements we covered here during the Microsoft Build 2016 developer conference, there is now new functionality for developers to leverage Microsoft Office, Xamarin’s capabilities in Visual Studio Community, and new Azure Services.Microsoft Office PlatformAmong the new opportunities for developers to build on the Office platform includes ...
Google Releases Android M Developer Preview
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 by Richard Harris
Google has released the Android M developer preview, offering a clear timeline for testing and feedback plus more updates to the preview build. For the M release, Google reports they have focused on improving the core user experience of and making big changes to the fundamentals of the platform.The M Developer Preview includes an updated SDK with tools, system images fo...
DevCon5 Will Delve Into HTML5 Concepts, Tools and Design in New York July 20 22
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 by Richard Harris
DevCon5 provides attendees with thought leadership on HTML5 concepts, tools and design best practices as well to provide insights into leveraging HTML5 to ensure a superior user experience through JavaScript frameworks, user metrics, responsive design, web services and more.The event will feature cross platform development experts and providing insight into the best app...
Leadbolt's New SDK Version 5.0 is Optimized for iOS 8
Friday, September 26, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The release of iOS 8 with its new features and enhancements brings several new opportunities and some new code level changes for iOS App developers. Leadbolt’s new SDK version 5.0 has been optimized to take advantage of these changes in iOS 8 to help developers maximize their opportunities through the Leadbolt app discovery and monetization platformWhen designing apps a...
Five Questions to Ask Before Taking on Your Next Business App Project
Monday, September 15, 2014 by Gottfried Sehringer
App development is still a hot topic. Whether for business process improvements or for customer engagement, every enterprise is looking to innovate, differentiate, or streamline costs through the release of new apps. But despite growing business demand, enterprise IT teams are expected to do more with less and deliver quicker than ever. On top of that, users expec...
Cloud4Wi Releases New Beta SDK for Wi Fi Marketplace Platform
Sunday, May 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Cloud4Wi, a provider of cloud Wi-Fi solutions, has released a new SDK to allow third-party developers to design apps for its Wi-Fi marketplace platform.App Developers can use the SDK to access the Cloud4Wi Wi-Fi marketplace platform for monetizing Wi-Fi. Anyone can develop consumer applications and business solutions, such as CRM apps, over the Cloud4Wi platform.With th...
Equal Access App Development: Create an App with Assistive Technology
Monday, March 31, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
You probably have not thought about making sure that your app is accessible to everyone, even those users with some type of disability. Not to worry, the Microsoft App Builder team has been thinking about it and have provided a number of things to think of, no matter what operating system you are using.As they point out, by designing apps with assistive techno...
Enough Flappy Bird Knockoffs: Apple Encourages Better Apps with New Designing Great Apps Hub
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
On million apps and going strong is a ubiquitous thing. Lots of apps - lots of great apps not so much.So you might have heard the Apple has published a new portal to help developers make better apps. The “Designing Great Apps” site is an obvious attempt to prod developers to do a better job of submitting higher quality apps.On the heals of an onslaught of Flap...
BlackBerry’s Has Updated the Built for BlackBerry App Developer Program
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 by Richard Harris
BlackBerry is enticing app developers to participate in its Built for BlackBerry program by creating a more friendly interface/process and dangling free swag in the form of a limited edition red BlackBerry Z10
The new developer checklist better explains the criteria and steps to create a Built for BlackBerry designated app or game. Language support has now expanded fro...
