Next generation low code platforms snub citizen developers
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 by Sumit Sarkar
Analysts have touted the growth of high productivity application development platforms which are attractive to many enterprises unable to find the necessary digital talent. These evolving platforms, also described as no or low code, focus on increasing productivity over traditional software development by expanding the pool of talent that can deliver apps. Many professi...
Guest Post: It's Not a Web App, It's An App You Install From the Web
Monday, January 7, 2019 by Richard Harris
We received an email…
"I heard about Forecast, but I couldn’t find it in the App Store. How do I get it?"
"You don’t get it from the App Store: just go to http://forecast.io/ on your phone, and you’ll be given instructions on how to download it."
"Wow, this is great! I didn’t know you could get apps outsid...
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...
Investing in websites instead of apps
Thursday, October 26, 2017 by Shioupyn Shen
Since the dawn of the first iPhone, Apple has been shaping the mobile narrative to suit its interests. Apple is able to maintain its dominance over the mobile market by brainwashing much of the technology industry into thinking that businesses need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars creating and maintaining mobile apps to reach their target audiences. In fact, up...
Adobe will be stopping updates for Flash by 2021
Friday, July 28, 2017 by Richard Harris
Adobe has announced its plans to stop updating and distributing Flash Player at the end of 2020. As open web standards like WebGL and HTML5 rapidly advanced to offer many of the web game development capabilities provided by Flash, it became clear that Flash's lifespan was limited.As a result, Facebook has partnered with game developers to support their HTML5 efforts, he...
Angular and VS 2017 support from Progress comes with new UI components
Thursday, February 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
Release of Telerik DevCraft R1 2017 enhances offerings for modern web and mobile UI developmentProgress announced the latest release of the Progress Telerik DevCraft suite, a complete UI toolbox for web, mobile and desktop development. New capabilities support the latest programming frameworks and IDEs, including Angular, Visual Studio 2017, jQuery 3, ASP.NET Core and X...
How Field Workers Use Industrial Mobile Apps in Real World Environments
Wednesday, August 10, 2016 by Richard Harris
Retriever Communications is a provider of mobile automation solutions for industrial enterprises and has announced the results of a recent study to investigate the effectiveness and efficiency of existing usability heuristics for mobile applications when applied to the industrial sector. The research examined the experiences of field technicians in depth, considering no...
SmartBear Releases New Agile Development Test Automation Tool
Friday, April 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
SmartBear Software has released a new developer focused test automation tool, TestLeft which allows developers working in an Agile and continuous delivery environment to create tests within IDEs, which helps reduce test creation and maintenance time.TestLeft is a testing tool for developers who are testing in Agile teams. It fully embeds into standard development IDEs s...
Orasi Extends Expertise to Kony's CrossPlatform Enterprise Mobile Solutions
Monday, November 16, 2015 by Richard Harris
Orasi Software has partnered with Kony to expand its software, support, training and consulting services to provide a complete suite of services for the application lifecycle. With the partnership, Orasi will provide sales, implementation services, training, consulting and support for Kony’s mobile development solutions. The partnership is part of Orasi’s expansion...
Sauce Labs Adds Real iOS and Android Devices to Mobile App Testing Platform
Monday, September 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Sauce Labs is moving beyond automated iOS & Android emulators to real devices with the launch of its public beta of its Real Device Cloud. The new platform will provide the ability to test with virtual and real devices. The new offering will first provide access to real Apple iPhone 6 and Samsung Galaxy 4S and 5S phones with other models to be offered in the future....
Mobile Web and Hybrid Approaches to Trump Native Technologies for 2015
Thursday, April 30, 2015 by Richard Harris
An interesting survey from OutSystems and TechValidate indicates that mobilization strategies, at least for the enterprise, are leaning more towards the mobile web and hybrid approaches than to native technologies.The survey was answered by more than 200 IT decision makers at enterprises worldwide who were asked about the kinds of applications they plan to build in 2015...
Microsoft Releases Azure App Cloud Service to Build Web and Mobile Apps
Saturday, March 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released the Azure App Service, a new cloud service that enables developers to build web and mobile apps for any platform and device. App Service is an integrated solution by Microsoft to help developers streamline development while enabling integration with on-premises and SaaS systems.The Azure App Service brings together the capabilities from Azure Webs...
Suhas Uliyar, Vice President of Mobile Strategy with Oracle, Provides His Predictions on the Future for App Developers and the Mobile Enterprise
Thursday, January 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
I recently had a Q&A session with Oracle’s Suhas Uliyar, who serves as the company’s Vice President of Mobile Strategy. During the talk Suhas provided insights into what app developers can expect as it relates to the mobile enterprise. Richard: Will there ever be a standard development approach for the enterprise or mobile in general? Suhas: In general, no...
The Enterprise Mobile Dilemma: I Don’t Know Whether to Laugh or Cry
Thursday, December 11, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Every once in a while it’s nice to have a good laugh and when I saw the photo shown here on Phunware's blog I had to laugh. It’s a picture from the company’s holiday party and as you can see, they definitely have a sense of humor about mobile development. There is also a grain of seriousness communicated by the image, because the mobile industry is introd...
You Can Now Add A Facebook Like Button In Your App
Monday, October 6, 2014 by Richard Harris
At f8 this year, Facebook let developers preview the Like Button on iOS mobile devices. And now the company has announced they are making the Like Button available to all Android and iOS mobile app developers. People using a mobile app can now directly Like the app's Facebook Page, or any Open Graph object within the app, and share on Facebook. The mobile Like Butt...
New Kony Visualizer Offers Multi user Collaboration for Creating Cross Platform Apps
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 by Richard Harris
Kony’s new Kony Visualizer is a new mobile app design solution that enables business users, designers and developers to collaborate and create native and Web mobile app experiences for iOS, Android, Windows and the Web. The next generation Kony Visualizer 2.0 will be available for limited release next month. It provides a single solution that enables coll...
The Wealth of Mobile Users with Not So Obsolete Devices
Thursday, June 12, 2014 by Jeff Fritz
There’s nothing like new car smell. It’s the scent of innovation, hard work and the commitment you’ve made to drive the same vehicle for the next “umpteen” years. We are dedicated to the investment in our vehicles and the ground-breaking technology of the time. But when it comes to mobile devices, consumers are quick to put aside the smart phone or tablet, for which the...
Mozilla Announces New Dual Core App Developer Reference Phone, Firefox OS PhoneGap Integration
Monday, February 24, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
It’s going to be a week of announcement overload as companies try to maximize their access to media at the Mobile World Congress so hold on as a cornucopia of mobile news is served.Mozilla joins the fray with a number of announcements, including a 4.5-inch dual-core reference phone, enabling developers to test new Firefox OS features and apps against different memo...
New Telerik Platform Brings First End to End Platform for Hybrid, Native and Web Development Across All Devices
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 by Richard Harris
Telerik announces a new Telerik Platform today, an end-to-end platform for hybrid, native and web development across all devices that adapts to any development approach—web, hybrid or native, as well as to ever-evolving app development requirements. Instead of forcing developers to choose between native, hybrid or web like most vendors, Telerik provides the first p...
Hexaware Technologies and Experitest Launch End To End Mobile Test Automation Solutions
Friday, December 13, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Hexaware Technologies has announced that it has partnered with Experitest to provide SeeTest, a solution for end-to-end mobile application test automation.
SeeTest mobile test implementation capabilities include same test runs on multiple devices with no jail-breaking required, local mobile device connectivity or through an on-site cloud, multiple object identificat...
pCloudy in Beta Offering Android Device Testing for Native and Web Browsing
Friday, October 25, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
In an effort to combat the rising complexity of testing for the multitude of Android driven devices now in the marketplace, pCloudy is offering a beta version of its cloud based device testing service.
Using a web interface, the company says that it can test all 9+ OS, OS versions, 8+ screen resolutions, 10+ display sizes and 5+ aspect ratios. The testing is done on re...
TestPlant launches eggOn for full control mobile app testing
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 by Richard Harris
TestPlant launches eggOn for full control mobile app testingeggOn gives full device control of iOS and Android mobiles without jailbreakingLondon, UK, and Boulder, CO – February 20, 2013 – TestPlant (www.testplant.com), the automated software testing company, today announced the forthcoming release of eggOn, a new development in mobile app testing te...
How did Facebook speed up it's new app
Thursday, December 13, 2012 by Richard Harris
Facebook released an update to it's Android mobile app and everyone is taking notice of how much faster it is. So how'd they do that?They completely wrote the app largely in native Android code. The previous version was a hybrid of native and web code. They also reduced garbage collection while using the app which helped it's overall memory usage. The developer tea...
The Native or Web app argument
Friday, December 7, 2012 by Richard Harris
Developer Tech is going to get the last word in for 2012 on the war of the native vs. web apps. This is a nice report and covers most of the associated pro's and con's. In the end I think there is plenty of room for both platforms because each offers a unique experience and delivery mechanism.It's a fairly long comparison but is worth the read -especially if you are not...
