Spark AR gets new tools
Wednesday, December 4, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
Spark AR is releasing some of the most-requested creator tools and capabilities — Target Tracking, Native Slider, Actions and Templates for Spark Studio — for Instagram.
Since Spark AR opened publishing on Instagram earlier this year, we’ve seen an amazing response from our creator community. These new tools and capabilities offer more options for c...
Kendo UI Web development toolkit lands from Progress
Friday, September 27, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
Progress, the provider of application development and digital experience technologies, has announced the latest release of Progress Kendo UI, the most complete UI toolkit for web development. The release includes a series of new components for Angular, React and jQuery, as well as major enhancements for some of its most popular existing components. &...
Google Flutter comes out of Beta to help speed up native development
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 by Richard Harris
For cross-platform mobile development, developers generally have to choose between either building the same app multiple times for multiple operating systems, or to accept a solution that trades native speed and accuracy for portability. Flutter provides a solution that gives developers the best of both worlds: hardware-accelerated graphics and UI, powered by native ARM...
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...
Focus on subcutaneous test
Thursday, April 20, 2017 by Austin Harris
Editors note: Guest submission from Head of Mobile at Future Platforms, Douglas HoskinsLooking to boost test coverage on a legacy system but don't know where to start? With a background in mobile app development, Douglas Hoskins, Head of Mobile at Future Platforms shares his insight on how you can maximize your efforts and engender greater confidence in your system...
Progress Telerik UI goes open source
Thursday, February 9, 2017 by Richard Harris
Progress has announced that it has open sourced Progress Telerik UI for Universal Windows Platform (UWP), a set of native UI controls for building Windows apps, and is in the process of donating to the .NET Foundation in an effort to help foster the open development of the .NET ecosystem. Progress Telerik UI for UWP is popular within the 2.1 million strong Progress deve...
Why MicroApps are an emerging development trend to watch in 2017
Monday, January 30, 2017 by Paul Swaddle
With SMEs(Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) emerging every day, the apps world has seen a swift growth in the enterprise apps category. MicroApps help users restructure, streamline, and in turn manage a crucial business processes. MicroApps provide a highly focused, task-based functionality that let users access the app, interact and then close the app all with maximu...
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...
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 ...
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...
RoboVM Lets Developers Use Java to Build iOS Apps Using native UI’s With Full Hardware Access
Thursday, April 2, 2015 by Richard Harris
RoboVM Lets Developers Use Java to Build iOS Apps Using native UI’s With Full Hardware AccessRoboVM has released the first stable version of its coding platform which lets developers reuse Java language and tools skills to build iOS Apps using native UI’s and with full hardware access.RoboVM is setup as a platform with multiple components:- The ahead-of-time (AOT) compi...
A Review of Database Technologies and Frameworks for Mobile Developers
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 by Marcin Warpechowski
Mobile app developers are continuously feeling the pressure to bring apps to market and update them faster and faster. This demand will only continue in 2015 and beyond. Many mobile app developers need a hard-working database behind the scenes for processing real-time data like transactions, inventory or users. This article offers insight on how mobile developers can im...
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...
AppGyver and built.io Team Up for Enterprise App Development Using HTML5
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
AppGyver is combing its front end tools with built.io’s back end to offer a new option for enterprise app development using HTML5.AppGyver’s Steroids SDK utilizes native UI components with navigation and animations, together with the HTML5 wrapped application to create hybrid apps. AppGyver Prototyper can be used to build app prototypes which can be tested and demo...
Xamarin Releases Xamarin Including Enhancements to Xamarin Designer for iOS in Visual Studio
Sunday, June 1, 2014 by Richard Harris
Xamarin has released Xamarin 3, which includes four major improvements to the Xamarin platform:1. Xamarin Designer for iOS in Visual Studio: The Xamarin Designer for iOS is a visual designer for iOS, allowing developers to quickly lay out UIs, intuitively add event handlers, take advantage of auto-layout, and see live previews of custom controls. No more gray boxes, dev...
Hybrid Web Applications: The Best of All Worlds for Mobile Application Development
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 by Tuukka Ahoniemi
Mobile application developers face a dilemma. The mobile
device landscape is fragmented and fast-moving. To be sure of covering as much
of the market as possible, applications need to support multiple operating
system environments, such as Android, iOS and BlackBerry OS. But these
environments have different architectures and application programming
interfaces (API...
AppGyver Launches Steroids HTML5 Hybrid App Development Platform
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 by Richard Harris
AppGyver Steroids, an HTML5 Hybrid App development platform for iOS and Android has officially been fully released.AppGyver’s Marko Lehtimaki blogged, “We've been building Steroids for almost 18 months with our team of nine people. The first production-ready apps were built with our platform already a year ago. We have listened to thousands of developers, built mul...
