Swift Student Challenge 2025 announced by Apple
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 by Richard Harris
Apple is excited to introduce the Swift Student Challenge, a program dedicated to empowering the next generation of developers, creators, and entrepreneurs. This initiative has allowed thousands of student developers to exhibit their creativity and coding skills through app playgrounds while acquiring valuable real-world experience that can benefit their future careers....
Conversational AI platform Loora to break down language barriers
Monday, March 4, 2024 by Richard Harris
Loora announced that it raised $12M in a Series A financing round from lead investor QP Ventures, with participation from new investor Hearst Ventures and existing investors Emerge and Two Lanterns Venture Partners, among others. The new funding, which comes just eight months after Loora’s launch from stealth with a $9.25M seed funding round, will enable the compa...
Scripts app gamifys language learning using finger swipes
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 by Austin Harris
Drops has launched Scripts for iOS and Android. With just a few swipes of a finger, users will be able to write Japanese Kana, Korean Hangul, and traditional Hanzi characters. In the coming months, Scripts will add simplified Hanzi, Thai, Kanji, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian Cyrillic, and Hindi.
In the past few years, Americans have expressed significant interest in learni...
FileMaker not for dummies
Thursday, September 21, 2017 by Andy LeCates
Organizations large and small are looking for cost-effective alternatives that will provide the agility and productivity they need on the path to digitization. Hence the growing popularity of low-code and no-code development platforms. As more vendors come to market with these platforms, it can be tempting to dismiss these as "dumbed down" or amateur app development. Th...
New Survey Provides Insights Into Most Popular Languages for Translating Apps
Thursday, June 9, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
One Hour Translation has released the results of a new survey which provides insights into the most popular languages that English-language apps are translated into by app publishers in the United States and United Kingdom.The data was collected in first quarter of 2016 and shows that 28% of all mobile applications written in English by U.S. developers are int...
AWS Device Farm Now Tests BrowserBased Apps on iOS and Android Devices
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Amazon Web Services launched the AWS Device Farm this July to provide support for testing native and hybrid applications on iOS and Android devices. The AWS Device Farm provides the ability to test apps in the cloud against a large collection of real phones and tablets without the complexity and expense of deploying and maintaining device labs and automation infrastruct...
AWS Offers Android and Fire OS Testing Device Farm
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
With the new AWS Device Farm developers now have the opportunity to test Android and Fire OS apps in the cloud against a large collection of real phones and tablets without the complexity and expense of deploying and maintaining device labs and automation infrastructure. Developers can use the AWS Device Farm by uploading an app and the service runs tests on ...
Why You Should Localize Your App (And What Exactly Localization Is Anyway)
Thursday, June 26, 2014 by Tobias Scherf
The question that we encounter at PTIGlobal most often is this: "Do I really have to localize my app?" On second thought, the question that we actually encounter more often is an unspoken one that folks are too embarrassed to ask: "What exactly is localization?"This is the first of several articles on app localization that will answer both of these quest...
Microsoft Shares Source Code for MS DOS And Word
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 by Richard Harris
Before you jump up and down, the source code give away of MS-DOS and Word for Windows is for versions of the programs that are over 20 years old! DOS 1.1 and 2.0, and Word 1.1a is what you'll get. The Computer History Museum is largely to credit for making the source code available (in corporation with Microsoft of course), even though it's nothing more t...
List of Completely Free Programming Books
Thursday, September 26, 2013 by Richard Harris
Developers and programmers alike need resources, and if you are looking for a free way to dive into programming, I've got the source for you. Head on over to stackoverflow and check out this growing list of books online or offline that you can use to either get started with or sharpen your app development mastery.
Everything from C# essentials...
Exadel Announces OEM Partnership with Progress Software
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 by Richard Harris
Progress® OpenEdge® Mobile App Builder product, powered by Exadel’s Tiggzi, now available through Progress to more than 1,500 independent software vendorsWalnut Creek, CA (February 20, 2013) – Exadel, a leading enterprise mobile software development company, today announced an OEM partnership with Progress Software (NASDAQ: PRGS), a global software company that simplifi...
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