Automate native app testing with Applitools new test cloud
Tuesday, June 29, 2021 by Richard Harris
Applitools announced the most revolutionary advancement in automated testing for native mobile apps in over a decade at Future of Testing: Mobile event. Applitools previewed its Ultrafast Test Cloud for Native Mobile, which provides the ability to run functional and visual tests faster, more reliably, and more securely via its unique Visual AI powered Ultrafast Test Clo...
Headless web architecture will change the internet
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 by Richard Harris
With the rapid shift to a digital-first world brought on by the pandemic, the pressure put on companies to provide strong digital experiences has only accelerated - from the need for fast-loading, responsive websites and highly accurate personalization to providing consumers with a consistent and seamless experience across channels. Delivering on these demands can be ch...
Build applications at speed with Cohesity Agile Dev
Thursday, September 12, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
Cohesity has announced the launch of Cohesity Agile Dev and Test, a new solution that addresses key bottlenecks organizations face in building applications at speed. It moves away from the request-fulfill model where developers request access to production-grade data and wait sometimes weeks for IT operations teams to provide the data needed to build...
Enterprise grade low code platform arrives from Kony
Thursday, March 14, 2019 by Richard Harris
Kony Inc has a lot to talk about these days. Along with recently being named a leader in The Forrester Wave: Low-Code Development Platforms for AD&D Professionals, Q1 2019, they also sent notice to us that they launched Kony Quantum, a new brand with enhanced capabilities for its next-generation low-code app development platform that aims to deliver rich digita...
Perforce to acquire Rogue Wave
Monday, January 28, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
Perforce Software backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Rogue Wave Software, an independent provider of cross-platform software developer tools and embedded components.
The combination of Perforce and Rogue Wave delivers a full suite of solutions that measurably improves developer productivity while fuelin...
App developer and software jobs might be declining says new report
Thursday, January 17, 2019 by Richard Harris
If your title is app developer, or work if you work in the software development field and are starting to feel like the Jedi are dying off - you might be on to something.
According to a new report put out by Freelancer.com, the software developer job title, and a few others including app developer, and app designer, have seen a dramatic decrease in popularity since l...
Creating native mobile apps without writing native code
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 by Richard Harris
Native programming can strike fear into the heart of anyone that doesn't know how to write it. While we as programmers understand our limits and capabilities, we still like to brag about the complicated function or route we just wrote. But just drop the words "Objective C, or Android Java" into the next conversation you have with fellow programmers and see...
To make a progressive web app or not
Thursday, September 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
Mobile users are spending 80 to 94 percent of their mobile use time in apps, so you’d think the mobile web would be a thing of the past right? But the average mobile user also visits 100 different websites each month, and only half of all mobile users don’t download any new apps during that same period.
In order to achieve the speed and ease of use p...
QT wants app developers and designers to play nice together
Monday, July 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
There is no democracy in design, and developers have typically had a difficult time always pulling off in the code, what interface designers have drawn up. So Qt has introduced their Design Studio solution to help collaboration between graphic designers and software developers on user interface (UI) creation to help ease the pain. Qt Design Studio allows desig...
Building native mobile apps with Creo
Thursday, June 21, 2018 by Richard Harris
A new mobile app development platform for MacOS has been released by Creolabs named Creo. Creo combines the Design and Development process into a single application. Traditional mobile app creation process is split between the design process and the development process, the platform merges the two separated steps into a single tool which helps reduce development time.
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Glance announces mobile app sharing for omnichannel visual engagement
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Glance has announced the general availability of Glance Mobile App Sharing, rounding out the industry’s only true omnichannel visual engagement platform. The announcement was made at the Gartner Customer Experience & Technologies Summit in London. “For the past two years, TurboTax has used Glance’s cobrowse, screen share and agent video to help power TurboTax o...
Mobile website or mobile app, the changing tides
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
Programming with native mobile languages has been the keystone way of producing a rock-solid mobile app since the beginning of the mobile app stores, and there’s good reason. After-all, programming as close to the hardware layer as possible is usually your safest bet, and using the language the manufacture fully supports will get that job done with less headaches.But in...
Progressive web apps vs native apps: Showdown in 2018
Thursday, March 1, 2018 by Andrew Gazdecki
Apps have become an integral part of any brand's digital marketing efforts. You'd be hard-pressed to find a company that hasn't, at the very least, thought about developing an app. It would be even more difficult to find a company willing to deny the tremendous impact that an app can have on a brand's engagement and customer experience.
Given th...
Oracle weighs in on chatbots for enterprise developers
Tuesday, December 5, 2017 by Richard Harris
From self-service to instant payments, the chatbot industry has seen great things from the latest advents in the field of AI. That's why we sat down with Oracle to learn more about how with all these new changes in the messaging industry enterprise can see the value that can be attained by adoption.We recently had a conversation with Suhas Uliyar, Vice President, A...
1APP launches a new way to access apps
Monday, December 5, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
1APP has announced general availability of OneOS, the first cloud-based mobile operating system that enables instant access to native mobile apps without the need to download. By rendering an app as a simple weblink, apps can be instantly accessed, embedded, or shared inside any web-connected environment. Existing apps can be uploaded to the 1APP cloud in a pr...
Realm explains the benefits of realtime collaboration for mobile apps
Monday, October 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
Realm is a mobile platform company, with a focus on helping developers build better mobile apps, faster. Launched in 2014, the Realm Mobile Database is the most popular third-party database in the world, and the mobile database enabling high-performance, highly engaging end-user experiences for more than a billion users of mobile apps. The Realm Mobile Platform, which c...
Angular 2: What's good, what's bad, what's next
Thursday, October 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
Angular 2 is the full-platform successor to Google’s Angular 1 web application framework, made for building complex applications in browsers and beyond. First announced in October 2014, the complete and final version of Angular 2 was just released in September 2016. Angular 2 is a big step forward for the Angular framework, but how exactly is the second edition of the f...
DevOps Pros Reveal Their Most Challenging Digital Performance Problems
Monday, June 6, 2016 by Richard Harris
SOASTA has released the results of a recent outreach survey conducted to determine common pain points and digital performance challenges facing the DevOps community, as well as a bonus question on their presidential candidate preferences.The survey was fielded among 45,000 technology professionals and found that Bernie Sanders is a favorite with DevOps pros – 34 percent...
Kony Makes Updates to Visualizer Cross Platform Solution
Thursday, March 17, 2016 by Richard Harris
Kony has released a number of updates to the cloud-based Kony Visualizer application design and development solution offered through Kony’s Mobility Platform. Enabling cross-platform mobile app development, the release of Visualizer 7.0 includes updates to simplify and accelerate the mobile app development process, enabling developers to build connected, omni-chann...
Site24x7 Releases Updates to Mobile Application Performance Management Platform
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Site24x7 offers a cloud monitoring service for DevOps and IT operations that provides the ability to monitor and troubleshoot applications, servers and network infrastructures, including private and public cloud instances.The company has announced the general availability of a new real user monitoring (RUM) solution and updates to its mobile application performance mana...
Synchro Labs Releases Cross Platform App Creator Using JavaScript
Monday, December 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Synchro Labs has released its new solution that allows developers to create cross-platform native mobile apps using JavaScript and Node.js. All of the application code, including client interaction logic, runs in the cloud on Synchro Labs client-server platform.Synchro is built on Node.js, and Synchro apps run in a Node environment. Developers create apps in JavaScript,...
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...
Fuse Releases Cross Platform UX Tool Suite
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
Fuse has announced that its UX tool suite is out of beta and now available for download. One of the advantages of the platform is its ability to provide developers with a prototyping tool that outputs working native code, instead of slideshows and GIFs.In closed beta for a year, the Fuse platform allows developers to create user experiences for native mobile apps. It us...
Bomgar Platform Updates Secures Cloud Users Against Cyberattacks
Monday, September 14, 2015 by Richard Harris
Bomgar has released the latest version of its Privileged Access Management solution, which provides security professionals with the ability to control, monitor, and manage access to critical systems by privileged users and third-party vendors. Bomgar’s approach allows companies to enable controlled system access and defend against cyberattacks without requiring com...
Progress Telerik Platform Adds Enterprise Functionality for Mobile Web, Native and Hybrid Apps
Thursday, May 21, 2015 by Richard Harris
Progress has added new enterprise functionality to its Telerik Platform, a cross-platform mobile application development solution for creating mobile web, native and hybrid apps. With this latest release, the Telerik Platform adds enterprise elements to better enable low code development options for both the developer and technical business user; enterprise mBaaS f...
Telerik Launches JavaScript Open Source Network for Web Developers to Build Native Apps
Monday, March 16, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Telerik announced the beta availability of NativeScript, an open source framework enabling developers to use JavaScript to build native mobile apps running on all major mobile platforms, including Apple iOS, Google Android and upcoming for Windows Universal. The NativeScript framework is designed to be familiar to developers who are comfortable with web technologie...
Progress Releases Updates to Telerik App Development Platform
Friday, January 16, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Progress has released the latest version of Telerik, its device and OS agnostic mobile development platform that combine UI tools and cloud services to build apps. This comes on the heels of the Progress’s announcement that it had finalized the purchase of Telerik AD in December 2014.The Telerik Platform offers tools and services that can be adopted individually or as a...
New RhoMobile Suite V5.0 Offers Enterprise App Development Using CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript and Ruby
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Motorola Solutions has released RhoMobile Suite 5.0, the latest version of its set of mobile app development tools for creating OS and device-agnostic enterprise-class mobile apps, with a new pricing option featuring per-developer subscription pricing. In an effort to align application developer needs with budget pricing, the new price structure allows develop...
What’s in the New Google Play Services 5.0 Announced at Google IO
Thursday, June 26, 2014 by Richard Harris
At Google I/O a new version of Google Play services was revealed that brings new capabilities and the latest optimizations to devices across the Android ecosystem. Here is what Google says about the New Google Play Services 5.0:Services for Android wearables: Apps can more easily communicate and sync with code running on Android wearables through an automatically s...
Build Apps That Can Take Signatures Using DocuSign's New SDK
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 by Richard Harris
At WWDC this week, DocuSign, Inc. (DocuSign®) announced the availability of the industry’s first Mobile SDK for iOS that enables mobile developers to build Digital Transaction Management (DTM) and electronic signing capabilities natively into mobile apps. Built on DocuSign’s industry leading DTM platform, the DocuSign Mobile SDK is optimized for rapid development so dev...
Saleforce Introduces Imbedded SOS button for Mobile Apps
Friday, April 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Salesforce has launched Salesforce1 Service Cloud SOS, a new service that provides the ability to put imbed an SOS button, similar to the Amazon Kindle Mayday button, directly inside any mobile app. Currently, for many mobile users who need assistance, they must exit an app or wait until they get to back to a desktop to find help. With Service Cloud SOS, compa...
What Mobile Experience Management Means for App User Engagement
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 by Richard Harris
As markets grow and mature, trends emerge and these trends receive names to describe that trend. Connecting a bunch of stuff to the Internet, you get the Internet of Things (first used by Kevin Ashton executive director of the Auto-ID Center).Artisan Mobile has developed the term “Mobile Experience Management” to describe its integrated suite of tools and...
App Developers: 8 Things You Can Do With Deeplinks To Drive Traffic To Your App
Monday, March 3, 2014 by David Lee
Deeplinking will soon
be the primary way new users discover your app and the content within it. Being
featured in the App Store can launch your app to stardom, but most apps won’t
have that opportunity. Deeplinks however, offer a proactive way to expose the
content within your app to potential users who may discover your content
through searches or social media. Sa...
Xamarin Releases SAP SDK for Native Enterprise App Development
Monday, February 24, 2014 by Ron Beaman
Xamarin has announced a partnership with SAP to help developers create native mobile apps to integrate enterprise data and processes. The jointly-developed Xamarin SAP SDK provides a native .NET interface to the SAP Mobile Platform allowing Developers to authenticate against SAP Mobile Platform endpoints and use native C# objects to access their SAP business o...
Xamarin Test Cloud Brings Cross Platform Automated UI Testing to Mobile Developers Worldwide
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 by Richard Harris
AUSTIN, Texas, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- XAMARIN EVOLVE CONFERENCE — Xamarin, the company that empowers more than 300,000 developers to build fully native mobile apps for iOS and Android, today announced Xamarin Test Cloud, an automated user interface testing service that enables mobile developers to easily test their apps on hundreds of mobile ...
