Best mobile testing practices for 2020 from Testlio emerges
Monday, January 27, 2020 by Richard Harris
Today, users access mobile apps through devices that offer thousands of combinations of screen sizes and operating systems, leaving app QA managers with a challenging decision of how many and which devices to prioritize.
Recently, managed app testing company, Testlio released new mobile device testing data from a recent query of its client base, providing a unique lo...
Android devices fail twice as much as iOS devices says new report
Wednesday, December 6, 2017 by Richard Harris
Each quarter, mobile experts compare the features and performance of iOS and Android smartphones. In the third quarter of 2017, Apple’s iPhones came out victorious in the battle, with the Android device failure rate (30 percent) being nearly double that of the iOS device failure rate (16 percent), according to the Q3 2017 State of Mobile Device Performance and Health re...
Androids failing at double the rate of iPhones
Thursday, September 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
As the two main players in the mobile space, the Android and iOS operating systems are at constant odds with one another for market share and performance. In the second quarter of 2017, Android devices struggled to keep pace with the performance of iPhones. In fact, Android devices had a failure rate worldwide of 25 percent - that is more than double the failure rate of...
Unity revealed its Q3 Games by The Numbers report
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 by Richard Harris
Unity revealed its Q3 Games by The Numbers report based on nearly 5B installs across 2.4B devices in Q4. Key highlights can be found below.Play frequency: Android and iOS players have nearly the same average number of sessions per day (2.4 vs. 2.38)Daily playtime: the average Android player spent 26.6 minutes on average playing Unity games every day; for iOS it was 19.8...
Embarcadero RAD Studio 10 Allows Developers to Build Delphi and C++ iOS Apps
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 by Richard Harris
Hot on the heals of its recent release of version 9 of the RAD Studio Seattle rapid application development platform (offering support of iOS 9), Embarcadero Technologies has released RAD Studio 10 which allows developers to build Delphi and C++ iOS applications that will run on iOS 9 32-bit and 64-bit devices, with debugging support for both.RAD Studio offers a softwar...
Embarcadero Technologies RAD Studio Now Supports iOS 9
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Embarcadero Technologies has launched the latest version of its RAD Studio 10 Seattle cross platform application development platform now offering support for iOS 9. Using RAD Studio 10 Seattle, developers can build Delphi and C++ iOS applications that will run on iOS 9 32-bit and 64-bit devices, with debugging support for both. RAD Studio provides the ability for ...
Mobile Application Usage Continues to Redefine Performance
Friday, October 2, 2015 by Joe Schulz
With both mobile device usage and user expectations continuing to escalate, application performance is becoming more important than ever. At the same time, the complexity of the devices themselves, paired with rising security precautions that are locking users out of public Wi-Fi networks, are making it more challenging for developers to ensure consistent performance un...
The Big News for App Developers is New Apple TV Store
Thursday, September 10, 2015 by Richard Harris
The prognosticators pretty much got it right on their predictions for Apples annual fall announcement which featured the new iOS 9 operating system, new iPhone 6 offerings, a redesigned Apple TV and updates to Apple Watch.Probably the biggest news for developers is the Apple TV store which provides a new opportunity to market apps. Here is a rundown of the all of the an...
Phablets Owners Are Overtaking Android Says New Flurry Report
Monday, May 4, 2015 by Richard Harris
A recent study into the impact of the iPhone 6 Plus by Flurry has shown that Phablet owners are becoming a dominant category for app consumption, but the big impact has been on Android device ownership. Flurry recently examined 1.6 billion devices it tracks every month to explore usage by screen size. Flurry focused on the top 875 devices which accounted for 87 per...
