Everything You Need to Know About AirPlay-Enabled Apps
Apple has been a dominant force each and every year with their new products and innovative ideas. Their first quarter of 2015 is a testament to this – with $18 billion in net profit, they’re up 38% from 2013. They show no signs of slowing...
How We Built A Touchless Payments Platform (Before Google Did)
There’s been a lot of chatter about Google Hands-Free Payments since it was announced at Google I/O 2015. Truly touchless payments? Not having to even touch your device to pay? It’s a pretty exciting idea...
App Monetization Strategies for TVE & Media
Back in February, a House of Cards episode featured Frank Underwood playing a game called Monument Valley on his tablet. The effect of the feature was almost immediate, with the app jumping significantly in major app stores. But what if there was more to it? What...
The Future of Retailing
For those of you who had the chance to catch up with us at IRCE 2015, you’ve seen our take on the future of retailing. The concepts we came up with were prompted by a slew of “next big thing” articles that we found a...
Apple Pay Will Now Support Loyalty Programs: WWDC 2015
Yesterday at WWDC 2015, Apple announced a number of key developments related to Apple Pay. The highlights at a high level were: Rebranding of “Passbook” to “Wallet” Apple Pay to be introduced to the UK in July Square launching a reader in the fall so...
3 Awesome Tools That Increase Transparency in Agile Development
Following our post on the importance of transparency in the agile development process, we received a number of questions about the “how”. While we can’t speak for everybody, we can give insight into our process. Here are a list of the tools we use to...
How to Get Your App Approved in the App Store
Last week, we wrote a step-by-step guide to App Store submission. Since then, we’ve had a number of questions about timelines and submission rejections. So we decided to do a follow-up post outlining: The timeline for App Store approval How to avoid your app submission...
The Top 5 Reasons Transparency is Important in App Development
Transparency, in any project, means open and honest communication of a project's status in as close to real-time as possible. In our agile mobile app development process, it ensures an open forum where stakeholders and the entire delivery team are given total access to the status of all...
How To Submit An App To The App Store
App submission is often an afterthought. But ensuring you submit your app to the App Store properly (a service included in our end-to-end development) is an important first step to ensure exposure and entice users to download. That’s why we made this step-by-step guide to App Store...
Open vs. Closed Loop Mobile Payments
It seems that for any major tech development, both open systems and closed systems are in play and in opposition. In the hotly contested mobile payments space, once again we are seeing this debate manifest. Except in this context, it is a matter of open vs....