City Guide app by Foursquare to be replaced with new Swarm app
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
Foursquare has announced that it will officially sunset its City Guide app on December 15, 2024, marking the end of an era for the platform that has long served users in discovering local businesses, venues, and attractions. The decision, while difficult, is driven by the company’s intent to concentrate efforts on its companion app, Swarm, which will now become th...
Is this the age of the singlepurpose App
Monday, December 11, 2017 by Ronnie Rios
Any time there is more than one way to do something, there will be debate about which way is best. The topic of building apps for mobile platforms has been subject to such discussions for years now. Systems architects, industry experts, developers and others have verbally tussled over whether it makes more sense to build multiple single-purpose apps or one multi-purpose...
Creating apps for iPhone X with newly opened doors
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 by Evan Rosenbaum
Over the past ten years of new iPhones, Apple has introduced features - some with little fanfare and others as marquee parts of the new phones - which cause a seismic shift in user behavior. Shifts in user behavior create opportunities for app developers to create enduring brands and experiences.The Apps of TomorrowAn analysis of some of these features and the enduring ...
How Will Pokemon Go Change the Way Developers Build Apps
Tuesday, August 23, 2016 by Richard Harris
Guest Submission by TJ VanToll, developer advocate for Progress It seems like everyone is playing Pokémon Go, the Pokémon collecting application that took the world’s mobile devices by storm. While the gaming phenomenon is all the rage among individual users who have got to catch ‘em all, the app’s innovative combo of GPS and augmented reality (AR) technologie...
User Acquisition: The Hidden Driver Behind the Unbundling Trend
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 by Adam Foroughi
There’s no doubt that unbundling or launching specialized apps has been a sound strategic move for incumbent apps (think Twitter’s Vine and Periscope and Instagram’s Hyperlapse and Layout, not to mention Facebook’s Messenger), as has specializing from the get-go - the extreme examples being Yo, or IFTTT’s Do. This is for good reason. Streamlined, single-function ap...
Deeplink Invites App Developers to Participate in Private Beta of Deeplink Marketplace
Monday, October 27, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Deeplink has announced the private beta of its The Deeplink Marketplace, a functional deep link marketplace (with API, SDK and other tools) to find deep links based on specific functions, enabling apps to serve content and deep links for other apps on a users’ phone. Mobile developers can use the Deeplink Marketplace for app marketing, app monetization as well as t...
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...
Pebble Comes to Android Store Plus Brings On New Partners
Friday, March 7, 2014 by Richard Harris
Pebble has announced their App Store is available on Android devices, plus they have new partners including eBay, Evernote, and Time Warner. Android users can access the Pebble appstore inside the Pebble app, which is available for free in the Google Play store, to easily discover, search and install apps and watchfaces right to their wrist. The Pebble Ap...
You Dream It, We Build It Competition Offers Up $50k To App Developers
Monday, February 24, 2014 by Richard Harris
Ice House, a global design and development firm today announced its official North American debut and its partnership with LAUNCH Festival (San Francisco, Feb 24-26) in the $50,000 ‘You Dream It, We Build It’ competition. Ice House is the global design and development services specialist in applied mobile technologies with portfolio expertise in micro-location, geo-fen...
Introducing Pebble Steel and the New Pebble App Store
Monday, January 6, 2014 by Richard Harris
Today, Pebble announces Pebble Steel, and the Pebble App Store along with several new partners.Pebble Steel is a new, premium smart watch that takes everything users know and love about Pebble -- the same e-paper display, 5 to 7-day battery life and waterproof design -- and wraps it into a smaller, sleeker package. Starting today, you can order your watch from...