22 Technologies That Every Mobile Developer Needs To Know
Anyone with experience in mobile knows that the technology advances quickly. Anything from OS versions to new devices to emerging technologies are testament to this. Staying up-to-date is key to remaining competitive, for companies and developers alike. Every new mobile technology can pose a threat or...
The Top 4 Reasons You Should Be Using J2ObjC
We recently wrote a post on J2ObjC and the benefits of using it for cross-platform development. It went over some of the advantages of using J2ObjC, but we’ve had some follow-up questions since. Rather than fielding these one-by-one, we decided to do a follow-up post...
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...
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...
Stories vs. Spec Docs
As any experienced product owner, business analyst, or project manager knows, product definition can be an arduous process. Finalizing product details, prioritizing what needs to be completed, even relaying the specifications to the development team all takes time. The question is, how can all of...
Using J2ObjC for Cross-Platform Development
What comes to mind when you hear the words “cross-platform project”? Do you get shivers up your spine? Remember those long nights trying to get all the platforms to follow the same business logic? Cross-platform projects can have up to 70% of code that gets...
Using a Horizontal ListView to Display Images
Being able to display images in a slide show is a very common feature in apps. There is a good chance that you will at some time – if you haven’t already – need to implement this feature, but perhaps you haven’t found any good...