Kony now supports making progressive web apps
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 by Richard Harris
Kony, Inc. announced new enhancements of its Kony AppPlatform to support Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). Kony is the first vendor to support enterprise-grade, low-code PWA development for mission-critical apps. Developers can use Kony’s visual low-code platform to develop PWAs, while leveraging backend services and third-party integrations for building enterprise app...
MeshKit launches so you can send data to apps even without Internet
Tuesday, February 28, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Open Garden, Inc. announced the release of MeshKit, a new platform for app developers. MeshKit is built on Open Garden’s technology in enabling peer-to-peer offline connectivity.The number of smartphones around the world is expected to reach over 6 billion by 2020. Yet many people are not able to use popular apps and services, particularly across Asia, Africa and Latin ...
What is offlinefirst application design anyway
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
Offline first application development is the latest iteration of progressive enhancement in application development. It means creating applications to work without internet access in the most resource constrained environments like underground train stations or in remote places abroad. Features can be added to make the applications more robust once internet access is ava...
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...
New Release of Sencha Space Offers Offline Application Support
Monday, February 23, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Sencha has released Sencha Space 1.3, the latest version of its application management platform which provides the ability to deploy business applications to desktops, tablets, and smartphones in a secure web application environment that encrypts and segregates proprietary apps and data on the device. Space consists of two parts:- An app that end users download and...
The Right and Wrong Strategies When Taking Your App Offline
Monday, February 9, 2015 by Martin Heller
Once there was an elevator inspector. Into an elevator shaft he climbed with his tablet, taking pictures and making notes. Twenty minutes later, he climbed down, went into the hall, and his tablet got service. His inspection app immediately tried to synchronize his notes and pictures with his company’s inspection database. After a couple of minutes, he saw an error...
New Alpha Anywhere Version 3.0 Offers Cross Platform Offline Mobile Business Applications
Monday, October 6, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Alpha Software Corporation has announced its application development and deployment environment now offers built-in offline support, without added time or cost. This built-in capability in Alpha Anywhere 3.0 allows a transactional business app to operate effectively while disconnected from a network.With full featured mobile off-line availability, users can work anywher...
Firbase Introduces Production Grade Hosting for Developers
Monday, May 19, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Firebase’s new Firebase Hosting options offers production-grade hosting for developers designed for use with mission-critical sites and apps. The platform offers one-command deploy and one-click rollback allowing servers to serve a single optimized set of static assets to all clients. These static assets can then be placed on a geographically-distributed ...
Offline, Online – Who Cares You Just Need Your App to Always Work
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 by Regev Yativ
We’re so anxiety stricken about not being connected, we take our smartphones everywhere. The thought of being in a “dead zone” can bring chills to the normally calm executive. But sometimes connectivity just isn’t there. You may be visiting a manufacturing facility where the roof interferes with reception. You may be on a sales call to a hospital, which has intentionall...
Weekly Roundup: Apple Developer Outage, Jellybean 4.3, Amazon and Windows Phone, Unity and Blackberry 10, and GDC 2014
Saturday, July 27, 2013 by Richard Harris
From the Editors DeskThis weekend is the last weekend before the August issue release and there has been no shortage of news to cover! From the Apple outage, to the Android 4.3 Jellybean update this week has been one for the books! We won't be publishing a podcast this week, while put all of our efforts towards putting the finishing touches on the August issue, but we'l...
Mobiforms Announces Support of HTML5 Offline Apps
Saturday, July 27, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
The latest version of the MobiForms 7.0 now allows developers to create HTML5 offline apps for any mobile device with a web browser capable of supporting Web SQL and Javascript including Windows Tablet, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Google Android, and Apple iPhone, iPod and iPod.
Advantages of the platform upgrade utilizes the SQLite database engine embedded as Web SQL ...
