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...
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...
Marvell Expands JavaScript Based IoT Development Platform
Thursday, July 2, 2015 by Richard Harris
Marvell has added to its solutions for embedded and Internet of Things (IoT) product prototyping with its latest JavaScript offering and two new hardware prototyping products.Marvell’s JavaScript Sixth Edition contains more than 400 individual changes to make the language more concise, improve performance, and integrate support for modules. Kinoma’s XS6 JavaScript engin...
New 3DR Platform Allows Developers to Create Custom Drone Apps
Monday, April 6, 2015 by Richard Harris
3DR, North America’s largest personal drone manufacturer, has announced the release of DroneKit, an open platform for drone app development. DroneKit represents years of 3DR’s flight control R&D into a single extensible platform which developers can use to create mobile and web-based drone apps as well as apps onboard the drones themselves. DroneKit works with any v...
Why Mobile App Development Requires More than an SOA
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 by Coco Jaenicke
If you plan on building mobile apps, you probably want a pluggable framework that allows you to easily use and reuse mobile services. You can then effortlessly access back-end systems, rapidly assemble new apps, and easily update individual services.Déjà vu I hear you cry – isn’t that what my service-oriented architecture (SOA) gives me? Yes and no. A SOA gives yo...
Xangati Introduces Application Aware Infrastructure Intelligence
Thursday, August 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
Xangati has announced the latest release of Xangati Product Suite XSR12 designed to enhance the user experience for Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop or web-based apps. XSR12 also integrates fully with infrastructures designed on the FlexPod converged infrastructure, providing native support of Cisco Unified Computing System’s (UCS) Virtual Interface Card and NetApp stora...
InterSystems Introduces Zen Mojo for Enterprise Mobile Web App Development
Sunday, July 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
InterSystems has announced Zen Mojo, a new technology for the development of Web-based apps for mobile and desktop environments. According to InterSystems, Zen Mojo was designed take advantage of the functionality and responsive user interfaces of mobile devices, when creating data-rich, enterprise-class Web apps. The open source plugin framework allows adopti...
Sencha Takes GXT 3.1 for Creating HTML5 Apps Out of Beta
Monday, May 12, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
As we reported a couple of months ago with its beta introduction, GXT 3.1 is an enterprise-class UI framework for building web-based apps with Java. And now Sencha has announced that it has taken GXT 3.1 out of beta. GXT 3.1 offers a new Theme Builder tool and support for Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 2.6 which allows developers to create apps using HTML5...
APPNATION V Special Offer For App Developer Magazine Readers!
Friday, November 15, 2013 by Richard Harris
As an App Developer Magazine Reader -- we invite you to join APPNATION V in San Francisco, Dec 3-4, 2013 -- at no extra cost!App Developer Magazine Readers are now eligible to receive a free full access conference badge ($495 value) to network with over 2,500, attendees, access all sessions and get into the official APPNATION Party on Tuesday, December 3rd! APPNATION V ...
People going mobile more changes app development
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 by Richard Harris
There’s no denying that smartphones and tablets have changed the way we find and install the applications we use, and what we expect from them. Added to this is the increasing desire to use these devices for work purposes, driving a need for enterprise applications.Previously we’ve only relied on our phones for calls, texts and maybe emails. But with the rapid adoption ...
