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AI no-code web app launched by Hostinger

Thursday, March 20, 2025 by Richard Harris

Hostinger is globally launching its AI-powered no-code web app solution, Hostinger Horizons. This new product unlocks web app creation for businesses and individuals with great ideas but no coding skills to bring them to life. Unlike other AI-powered coding tools, Hostinger Horizons does not require third-party connections to publish and host web apps. With just a fe...

Real time security software development from Symbiotic Security

Friday, November 22, 2024 by Richard Harris

Symbiotic Security launched a real-time security for software development that combines detection and remediation with just-in-time training – incorporating security testing and training directly into the development process without breaking developers’ workflows. Backed with $3 million of seed funding from investors including Lerer Hippeau, Axeleo C...

Github Spark introduces a tool for creating web apps using plain English

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

GitHub has announced a groundbreaking tool, GitHub Spark, designed to empower developers by enabling the creation of web applications through plain English instructions. This innovation marks a significant stride in the evolution of coding, as it allows users to describe the desired functionality of an app in natural language, and the tool translates these descriptions ...

AI code personalization tool from Anima

Monday, February 5, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger

Anima announced AI Code Personalization which leverages generative AI in their code-generation engine. This feature empowers developers to automatically customize the code they produce so it resembles their coding style, significantly saving editing time. Anima’s code personalization is now available in the Anima Figma Plugin and in Figma’s Dev Mode. ...

WaveMaker Autocode aims to end development team grunt work

Wednesday, December 27, 2023 by Richard Harris

WaveMaker has been named Major Contender by the global research firm Everest, in its Low-code Application Development Platforms PEAK Matrix Assessment 2023. This validates the strategic investment by WaveMaker in upgrading its technology platform to meet the needs of customers who want to leverage the latest web and mobile technologies along with AI to rapidly mode...

App developer trends for 2024 according to Kochava

Tuesday, December 12, 2023 by Richard Harris

Ethan Lewis is the CTO of Kochava, the real-time data solutions company for omnichannel attribution and measurement, and Vaunt, an open-source community engagement tool that helps organizations grow their developer communities. He discusses the rapid growth of the app industry and what’s next for application developers. What’s next for software developers...

Blockchain app builder SDK from thirdweb

Tuesday, November 14, 2023 by Richard Harris

Ava Labs and thirdweb are expanding AvaCloud’s offerings and improving time-to-market for apps that need a custom, highly performant blockchain. AvaCloud already offers fast, simple custom blockchain deployments. Thirdweb’s robust SDKs, smart contracts, and other tools enable AvaCloud builders to go beyond infrastructure and easily launch high...

Telerik and Kendo UI R3 updates from Progress

Tuesday, November 7, 2023 by Richard Harris

Progress the provider of application development and infrastructure software, recently announced the R3 2023 release of Progress Telerik and Progress Kendo UI, the most powerful .NET and JavaScript UI libraries and tools for application development. From modernizing legacy projects to building new applications, this new release equips developers with the tool...

Robots and app development predictions for 2023 from Mobot

Friday, January 13, 2023 by Richard Harris

Eden Full Goh from Mobot explains why mobile adoption is continuing to rise, how companies are increasingly becoming mobile-first, why QA is more critical than ever, what the role robotics is playing in relation to mobile app development, how companies can use plug-and-play to simplify tech stacks, and tons more. Everyone is becoming a mobile-first company. Althou...

Speed up your Java development with kits from Vaadin

Monday, October 24, 2022 by Richard Harris

Vaadin announced the release of four Acceleration Kits designed to make it faster and easier to build and modernize Java applications for enterprise use. These new Acceleration Kits speed the integration of custom applications built with Vaadin Flow into enterprise authentication, observability, and Kubernetes environments. Vaadin Flow is a unique framework that le...

App Stability Index of top mobile apps

Wednesday, August 31, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger

SmartBear, a provider of software development and visibility tools, has released its 2022 App Stability Index Report measuring the stability of the top 250 mobile and web apps used by Bugsnag customers worldwide. Using Bugsnag data from a 30-day period, the third annual report shows mobile apps are continuing the release trend of once per week, moving from a weekly rele...

NET MAUI and the end of IE

Thursday, August 4, 2022 by Richard Harris

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced the general availability of .NET MAUI, enabling developers to build cross-platform applications from a single codebase, saving costs, and eliminating the need to maintain multiple codebases. According to Microsoft, the primary goal of .NET MAUI is to enable developers "to deliver the best app experience as designed speciall...

Automation Cookbook introduced by Applitools

Thursday, April 15, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

Applitools announced the launch of its “Automation Cookbook,” featuring free bite-sized videos aimed to upskill developers and test engineers of all experience levels. Anyone looking for quick answers to their test automation questions can use recipes to solve everyday challenges and also practice in the Test Kitchen for free. The initiative is led by Angie ...

Why Low Code No Code will become the mainstay in 2021

Sunday, January 10, 2021 by Richard Harris

2020 has been a year that taught us to let go of old beliefs and embrace change. Traditional businesses that were quick to transform and move online had increased revenues owing to newer business models. Being online and connected, businesses can be run successfully. The COVID-19 pandemic changed the mindset from “plan and act,” to “act and adapt.&rdqu...

Try to make web apps like native apps in 2021

Wednesday, January 6, 2021 by Freeman Lightner

Consumers will want to work seamlessly between desktop and mobile. We will continue to see an accelerated trend towards modifying web apps to exhibit mobile app-like functionality and bring rich desktop features to the phone. Addressing system-switching fatigue Businesses will seek more integrated solutions to reduce the number of portals users must log in to, whe...

Anvil extends web app development

Wednesday, May 6, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

Software startup Anvil announced a major extension of its powerful web app development environment, which makes it simple for Python developers to quickly design, build and ship web apps in minutes. By making its runtime engine open source, any of the 8 million developers worldwide who know the Python language can now choose to deploy their apps on their own machines...

Temenos acquires Kony and strengthens its leadership team

Friday, August 30, 2019 by Richard Harris

Temenos, the Switzerland-based banking software company, has agreed to acquire Kony, Inc., the digital banking SaaS company, for $559 million and an earn-out of $21 million, subject to regulatory approvals. The acquisition enhances Temenos’ scale and capabilities in the US, adds significant digital expertise, and accelerates Temenos Infinity, the b...

INTUITION.DEV wants to help developers survive the coming tech crash

Tuesday, August 20, 2019 by Richard Harris

Hacker News announced the release of a first working version of INTUITION.DEV. INTUITION.DEV is a completely free and open source low-code tool specifically designed for professional developers, not citizen developers. Bubble (a commercial low-code tool for citizen-developers) estimated savings of ten to 50 times on traditional development costs through low-code, and...

Playable gaming ads lands from Luna Labs

Friday, August 2, 2019 by Richard Harris

Luna Labs has officially launched the Luna toolkit, which allows developers building in Unity to streamline the development process, and easily create lightweight experiences for HTML5 game platforms and the next generation of playable ad creation. “Luna was born in a gaming studio, where we saw first hand that there was an increasing need for HTML5 conte...

Blockchain developers get a new ABT wallet from ArcBlock

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger

ArcBlock has officially released its ABT Wallet giving every user access to their own decentralized identity and the ability to take back control of their digital-selves. Using ArcBlock's unique interconnected blockchain network ABT Network, and Forge Blockchain Application Framework, any developer can now add the ability for any application or service to use decent...

Mobile apps that use big data better do the data science too

Friday, March 29, 2019 by Richard Harris

Data science has emerged as a new powerhouse for organizations, turning mountains of data into actionable business insights that impact every part of the business. However, not all data science platforms and methodologies are created equal. The ability to use data science to make decisions with transparency and accountability comes down to many factors, including whethe...

JavaScript based low code platform emerges from Progress

Wednesday, March 20, 2019 by Richard Harris

Progress has revealed its strategy and approach for enabling high productivity application development. As part of this strategy, Progress announced the latest release of the Progress Kinvey platform, delivering a combination of high productivity, full developer control over the app experience, and operational efficiency for modern workloads with dynamic scale. As bu...

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...

Push notification value increases with intensity

Monday, March 4, 2019 by Richard Harris

Marfeel has released the results of an extensive study that measured the value of push notifications to publishers and identified optimized strategies for increasing the value of push notifications by up to 40 percent. The research defined a new metric, Subscriber Lifetime Value, or SLTV, to evaluate push notification strategies for customers using Marfeel’s au...

SendBird raises $52M

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 by Richard Harris

SendBird announced the closing of a $52 million series B round of fundraising led by ICONIQ Capital and joined by existing investors, Shasta Ventures, August Capital, Y Combinator, and Funders Club. SendBird will use the funding to rapidly scale the company to fully address today’s $4.2 billion service addressable market for user-to-user messaging services. SendBi...

Ember.js video documentary released

Wednesday, February 13, 2019 by Richard Harris

Honeypot.io based in Berlin has released an open-source documentary on the story of Ember.js. The documentary was filmed with Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale, the co-creators of Ember.js and shot in Portland, New York, Amsterdam, Dublin and Munich. It tells the story of how Ember.js came to be and the life-altering decisions that go into making open-source software. Besi...

Android Studio update fixes over 200 reported bugs, here's what's new

Tuesday, January 15, 2019 by Richard Harris

Google has just announced the release of Android Studio 3.3, an update on Project Marble, which is the Android Studio team’s focus on improving fundamental user-facing features and product polish. In a recent blog post, Jamal Eason says: "Android Studio 3.3 kicks off the broader quality focus area for the year, which we call Project Marble. Announced at th...

The benefits of single page applications as Adobe sees it

Thursday, January 10, 2019 by Gabriel Walt

Most people currently use a SPA every day without realizing it. Google Maps, Twitter, and Gmail are just a few examples of the abundance of SPAs in use today. While SPAs have been around for a while, technology advances have caused interest in them to soar over the past couple of years. Still, some misconceptions exist about the technology, many based on limitations in ...

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...

Testing your app for the holidays

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 by Eran Kinsbruner

It’s almost the most wonderful time of the year and retailers of all sizes have already been busy preparing - and in some cases bracing - for the upcoming surge in traffic that is expected to hit their websites and mobile shopping apps this holiday season. Salesforce is predicting that mobile devices will drive 68 percent of all holiday shopping traffic this year,...

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...

Cross channel analytics and marketing automation solution get updated

Monday, November 12, 2018 by Richard Harris

Pyze, who says they are now powering over 300,000 mobile / web apps, announced the general availability of its latest growth Intelligence platform release featuring, what they claim, is the most advanced cross channel analytics solution in the industry. The release also features customizable user dashboards, and a new user interface. Driven by customer de...

Single Page Application security help

Tuesday, October 23, 2018 by Richard Harris

Single-page applications, or SPAs, are web apps that load a single HTML page and dynamically update that page as the user interacts with the app. Their origins are unclear but the concept was discussed as early as 2003 according to the archives on Wiki. SPAs use AJAX and HTML5 to create fluid and responsive Web apps, without constant page reloads - that literally means,...

The differences between web apps and native apps

Thursday, October 18, 2018 by Richard Harris

Even in 2018, years past the origional question, the debate rages on across the land, in office spaces and conference rooms every day - should we build a full-blown native mobile app, or is distributing over the web good enough? By now everyone knows the “mobile-first” mentality because statistics like 50% of web searches being done from a mobile dev...

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...