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OneSignal to delete inactive app users by October 31st unless you pay

Thursday, October 12, 2023 by Richard Harris

OneSignal, a company that provides a push notification service for mobile and web applications, just announced they are going to start deleting subscribers that are in-active for over 18 months unless you choose a paid subscription plan. In an email to developers, they said: "If you'd like to retain all your push subscriptions (players), you can upgrade...

How to get app reviews the right way

Monday, August 23, 2021 by Justin Welter

You’re playing a game on your phone and just finished a tough level. Or maybe you’re not into mobile games, but you are repeatedly swiping left if you know what I mean. Then a pop-up appears. “Like using our App? Rate us!” It stops your experience in its track to wait for a decision. What is driving these rating prompts, and why? As Apple has ...

SignEasy earns Innovator title again from Aragon Research Globe

Tuesday, February 4, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

SignEasy has once again been named an 'Innovator' by Aragon Research Globe in the category of Digital Transaction Management (DTM). The report, released annually, evaluates 20 major DTM providers in a market that has become known as the best way to automate legacy paper-based transactions. SignEasy offers a mobile-first approach and intuitive interface, in ad...

iOS developer changes in iOS 13 you missed

Friday, October 25, 2019 by Richard Harris

We recently caught up with George Deglin, CEO and Co-Founder at OneSignal who says the team at OneSignal has been tracking code changes in iOS 13 since June, and they identified several technical changes that Apple had not formally announced elsewhere. In Xcode 11 Apple changed the results of a function that many developers were using to get push tokens. More unann...

iOS 13 testing challenges

Wednesday, October 2, 2019 by Eran Kinsbruner

The arrival of Apple's new operating systems, iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, represent big releases with multiple updates and features that represent good news for consumers, such as the increased security and privacy features, enhanced user experience, and consolidated single sign-on. For app developers, it presents some exciting opportunities for innovation. For anyone ...

What Apple iOS developers can expect from iOS 13, iPhone, and more

Tuesday, September 10, 2019 by Richard Harris

Unlike the WWDC held by Apple every year, today is the Apple event any gearhead wants to sit and watch - even if you aren't a developer. New iPhones, new iPads, new Macbooks - there will be no shortage of hardware news coming from Steve Jobs Way, Cupertino, CA. Here is all we know so far, which is largely speculatory -but some of this is founded on actual re...

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 ...

eBay launches HeadGaze so you can use head movements to navigate

Tuesday, September 11, 2018 by Richard Harris

eBay has announced a new technological innovation coming out of its Computer Vision team that they hope will transform the way users can physically navigate through different applications. It's called HeadGaze and it uses Apple’s ARKit and the iPhone X camera to track your head motion so you can navigate your phone easily without using your hand...

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&...

July is the deadline for all iOS apps that don't support iOS 11

Monday, May 7, 2018 by Richard Harris

Apple reminds us that iOS 11 is now in the hands of hundreds of millions of people around the world, and starting July 2018, all new iOS apps and updates submitted to the App Store must be built with the iOS 11 SDK, plus support iPhone X. Also, all new iOS apps and updates for iPhone, including universal apps, must support the Super Retina display of iPhone X.iOS 11 SDK...

Open Sesame technology changes the world for paralyzed people

Friday, December 15, 2017 by Richard Harris

Sesame Enable seeks to open a new door to independence for millions of quadriplegics and people with disabilities around the world through the development of the first touch-free smartphone and tablet app called Open Sesame.Open Sesame technology works by tracking user’s head movements using the front-facing camera of a smartphone or tablet. Users activate the app throu...

Learning ARKit for the average iOS developer

Monday, November 6, 2017 by Angela Yu

Augmented Reality is not new and developers already have tools to create augmented reality (AR) apps. But with Apple’s brand-new ARKit, we’re going to see a massive shift in the landscape as this new framework simplifies the process of building AR experiences for iPhone and iPad. With ARKit in their arsenal, developers are presented with a golden opportunity a...

Speeding up your iOS app with a few lines of code

Wednesday, October 18, 2017 by Kanwal Sarwar

Susie Wee, CTO of Cisco DevNet, blogged about the Apple and Cisco partnership just a few months ago. The announcement covered the DevNet Fast Lane Validation for iOS developers and how just adding a few lines of code to an iOS app can get it priority on an enterprise network!This is important. When deploying new services, enterprises want to make sure that the appl...

EdTech offers free courses for DACA Dreamers

Thursday, October 5, 2017 by Richard Harris

OpenClassrooms has announced the launch of its curriculum in the United States. Learning opportunities for prospective students at every level - from novice to seasoned tech pro - are now available for the following career paths: iOS Developer, Android Developer, Ruby Developer, Front-end Developer and Product Management, enabling students to land careers in some of tod...

Bringing LEGO minifigures to life using AR and emotion recognition

Wednesday, May 3, 2017 by Richard Harris

Goran Vuksic, an iOS developer for Tattoodo, has made a unique new application that is helping make childhood dreams come alive. The app uses emotional AI and Augmented Reality SDK's that help transform miniature LEGO characters into interactive models. The project responds to a user's facial features by analyzing and projecting the user's current mood onto the LEGO cha...

The NBC TODAY show app makeover from ObjectiveC to Swift

Tuesday, January 10, 2017 by Richard Harris

The TODAY show has created a sleek new mobile app to share a mix of the best moments from the good old days, to those fresh off-the-press stories. They have covered everything from the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the inauguration of every president since Harry Truman. And now, the show TODAY show team wants to share all of those historical memories with its vie...

How Apple's mandatory iOS App Transport Security (ATS) change will affect you

Wednesday, November 30, 2016 by Dominic Tancredi

Major changes are ahead for the mobile industry and as per the usual, Apple holds the keys to all major requirements and changes. In 2015 Apple released iOS 9 and introduced the App Transport Security (ATS) security feature which requires an app to connect to web services over a secure HTTPS connection rather than an HTTP connection. When this feature was released it wa...

Partnership Between Developers, Publishers and Platforms Is Key Says New Report

Monday, September 12, 2016 by Richard Harris

The Application Developers Alliance has released the result of a global survey of mobile app developers and publishers: Competition in the Mobile App Ecosystem. The report shows a healthy mobile app market and an industry that is concerned about being misrepresented and sees unnecessary intervention from external authorities.In the context of the European Commission’s o...

New Apple App Store Review Guidelines

Friday, September 2, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson

Apple has announced that the Apple App Store Review Guidelines have been updated to include information on offering in-app digital subscriptions, SiriKit, and iMessage. iOS Developers planning on releasing apps for the upcoming releases of iOS 10, macOS Sierra, watchOS, and tvOS, should be sure to read these updated guidelines.Apple has also announced a couple of c...

Twitter's Crashlytics Now Catches out of Memory Crashes for iOS Apps

Thursday, August 18, 2016 by Richard Harris

Twitter has announced a brand new feature in Fabric's Crashlytics kit — out of memory crash reporting on iOS (OOM). Crashlytics is already the most powerful crash reporting solution available. But app crashes aren't always caused by bugs in the code. Crashes can also be caused by the user's device being out of memory, forcing the app to shut down. This is a problem...

Dynamsoft Releases Barcode Scanning SDK for iOS Apps

Wednesday, July 13, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson

Dynamsoft has released a new software development kit (SDK) for iOS developers to that provides the ability to integrate barcode scanning into iOS apps. The new SDK supports 1D and 2D barcode reading. Dynamsoft’s Barcode Reader for iOS SDK supports reading single barcodes from images and smartphone cameras. Synchronous and asynchronous barcode decoding are su...

iOS Developers Can Now Integrate With Agile CRM

Friday, May 20, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson

Agile CRM has released a new software development kit (SDK) that allows iOS developers to integrate their apps with Agile CRM’s contact management platform.Agile CRM’s iOS SDK provides the code libraries, samples, documentation and tools needed to connect with the Agile CRM platform. Some of the iOS integrations that the SDK offers include:- Contacts: Allows mobile...

Tad Johnson Discusses JAMF Software's Focus on Apple Devices

Thursday, May 5, 2016 by Richard Harris

Tad Johnson, marketing campaign manager at JAMF Software, reached out to us to discuss why the company has focused solely on offering solutions for Apple devices and how that strategy has evolved.ADM: Who is JAMF Software and what does the company do?Johnson: Since 2002, JAMF Software has been solely focused on helping organizations succeed with Apple. In fact, we offer...

iOS Developers Can Now Get Weekly App Analytics Email Reports

Thursday, March 10, 2016 by Richard Harris

iOS developers can now opt in to receive a weekly App Analytics email report for their most frequently downloaded apps, with data on App Store Views, App Units, Sales, Sessions, and Crashes. Also available in the report is how much each of these metrics has changed between last week and the previous week. In other quick hitting Apple developer news:- iOS 9.3 beta 6...

Security Risks for iOS Apps That Use Alternate Solutions for Hot Patching

Thursday, February 18, 2016 by Richard Harris

Nothing comes free. There is always a give and take with anything and the iOS app store is no exception. With such an inherently closed ecosystem the benefits for users include the relative assurance that, from a security standpoint, iOS apps are safe to use.This is a benefit for iOS app publishers as well as their apps profit from the halo affect this perception provid...

Learn How to Use Windows Bridge for iOS

Tuesday, February 2, 2016 by Richard Harris

The Windows dev team has created a series of blog posts to help developers dive into using the Windows Bridge for iOS to create Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps that can run on Windows 10 devices using iOS APIs and existing Objective-C code. Getting Started with Windows Bridge for iOSTo get started with the bridge developers need to Install Visual Studio. Thos...

Microsoft Brings New Tools to Windows Bridge for iOS

Monday, November 23, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson

Released in August of this year, the Windows Bridge for iOS is an open-source project that provides an Objective-C development environment for Visual Studio and support for iOS APIs to allow iOS developers to make Windows apps by reusing existing Objective-C code and their iOS development skills .Microsoft has continued to add functionality to the platform since its rel...

RealTimes Stories SDK Allows Mobile Developers to Integrate Video Stories

Friday, November 13, 2015 by Richard Harris

RealNetworks has released the RealTimes Stories SDK that will allow developers to integrate RealTimes Stories platform into native mobile apps. Android and iOS developers can use the SDK provide users with the ability to create video montages and add functionality when organizing and share images.The RealTimes platform provides the ability for an app to automatically pi...

New XcodeGhost Malware Variation Discovered By Symantec

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 by Richard Harris

A new XcodeGhost malware variant has been discovered by the security team at Symantec. It was found in apps created with unofficial downloads of Xcode, which are hosted regionally, and can be attractive to developers because of the faster download speeds available when compared to the official version (due to the large file-size of Xcode).When these unverified versions ...

Gap Between iOS and Android Continues to Grow

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson

According to App Annie’s Q3 2015 Market Index the gap in performance between the iOS App Store and Google Play continues to grow. Its not a one sided affair however, as Google Play’s overall market share continues to dwarf iOS, but from the app revenue side, Apple is a clear winner over Google.In Q3 2015 the report shows that worldwide downloads on Google Play were abou...

C++ Developer Tools From JetBrains

Friday, October 2, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson

Many of you are familiar with JetBrains, which provides the development community with a myriad of tools that automates common, repetitive tasks as well as help developers explore and familiarize with code bases faster.JetBrains has tools for a number of environments including Android, iOS, Java, .NET, Ruby, Python, C++, and many more. From IDEs, Code Editing Tools, Iss...

AWS Offers Easier to Way Transfer Data Between iOS apps and Amazon S3

Tuesday, August 25, 2015 by Richard Harris

AWS has released the new Amazon S3 Transfer Utility for iOS, a new solution that allows an easier way for iOS Developers to transfer data between iOS apps and Amazon S3.The AWS team notes that the new S3 Transfer Utility for iOS is a move forward from the S3 Transfer Manager for iOS, which was one of the most used components in their SDK. Two of the most requested featu...

Microsoft Provides First Look at Windows Bridge for iOS

Monday, August 10, 2015 by Richard Harris

In its continuing effort to encourage app developers to embrace cross platform development, Microsoft continues to roll out its bridging technologies to allow developers to bring existing code and skills for iOS, Android, web and desktop to the Windows Store.As part of that effort, Microsoft has released an initial version of the Windows Bridge for iOS (previously known...

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...

Top Five Ways to Get Your Apps Ready for Windows 10

Friday, July 10, 2015 by Brian Alexakis

With the full release of Windows 10 right around the corner, now’s the time to ensure your app is ready for Microsoft’s biggest release ever. And here’s how you can do it.Expect Big Consumer Adoption Rates for Windows 10Microsoft expects that Windows 10 will see huge adoption rates by its millions of worldwide customers, from home users to small business and large enter...