Category Apps

How do you go about designing an app? Well, first things first: Since there are so many apps out there already, it would be good to know what the curret trends and future prospects of the mobile app market are, right? Also, the process behind building an app should not be underestimated — there are a lot of things to keep in mind. Don’t worry, we’ve got your back!

Reasons Your Mobile App Retention Rate Might Be So Low

by Suzanne Scacca

19 min read
No meows just yet

October 18, 2018 — It’s an exciting time when your mobile app is ready to launch, but be careful. No matter how high you see those app store downloads go, don’t go rushing to celebrate just yet. There’s a more ... Read More…

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Matthew Soucoup wrote

Saving Grandma’s Recipes With Xamarin.Forms

October 11, 2018 — When creating mobile apps, you have to create and maintain the user interface and app logic for both iOS and Android separately: Objective-C/Swift with XCode and Java with Android Studio. That can quickly turn into a pain. With Xamarin.Forms, however, the UI and app logic … Read More…

Rachid Sakara wrote

How To Build A News Application With Angular 6 And Material Design

October 3, 2018 — In this article, we’re going to build a news application using Angular 6 and Google’s material design in combination, which will help you to make your future applications with Angular look great in web browsers and mobile devices. Read More…

Lachezar Petkov wrote

The New Framer X: Initial Impressions

October 1, 2018 — The Framer team recently changed course with the announcement of a new prototyping tool, Framer X. Lachezar Petkov got to play with it during the beta phase and discusses its brand new features in this article. Read More…

Ahmed Bouchefra wrote

Building A PWA Using Angular 6

September 20, 2018 — Throughout this tutorial, we’ll be using Angular 6 to build a Progressive Web Application, step by step, implementing the core tenets of PWAs using Angular CLI v6. Read More…

Kaya Thomas wrote

Preparing Your App For iOS 12 Notifications

September 5, 2018 — With the launch of iOS 12, there are several new notification features such as new authorization options, dynamic quick actions and user interaction within notifications. Learn more about how to implement these features and if they are right for your app. Read More…

Alvin Wan wrote

Building A Room Detector For IoT Devices On Mac OS

August 29, 2018 — In this tutorial, you build a desktop app that predicts which room you’re in using a simple machine learning algorithm: least squares. The code applies to any platform, but we only provide dependency installation instructions for Mac OSX. Read More…

Vivek Maskara wrote

How To Improve Test Coverage For Your Android App Using Mockito And Espresso

July 25, 2018 — Frameworks such as Espresso and Mockito provide easy-to-use APIs that make writing tests for various scenarios easier. Let’s cover the fundamentals of testing and frameworks which developers can use to write unit tests. Read More…

Ahmed Bouchefra wrote

Building Mobile Apps With Capacitor And Vue.js

July 2, 2018 — In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Capacitor and cutting-edge web technologies such as Vue.js and Ionic 4 web components to build cross-platform mobile applications for Android and iOS. Read More…

Garrett Dimon wrote

Everything You Need To Know About Transactional Email But Didn’t Know To Ask

June 27, 2018 — When sending transactional emails, you may be missing out on some of the more advanced best practices without even knowing it. This guide will help you make sure that you haven’t overlooked anything. Read More…