Continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), and continuous deployment have drastically changed the mobile software development cycle, especially with the different continuous integration tools developers now use to ship their apps. As software development cycles are becoming faster, time to deploy apps and delivery cycles are becoming shorter and shorter. Instead of companies shipping new app…
You’re launching your first app, or maybe it’s been a while since the last time. Submitting an app to the App Store isn’t as simple as pushing a launch button, but it’s not as complicated as it may seem either. This step-by-step post assumes that you are already enrolled in the Apple Developer Program, your…
While powerful on its own, Swift can always be improved with different libraries and frameworks. It usually starts with a developer finding difficulties or not being able to do a certain thing, and finds a creative solution to the problem that others can use. Whether you’re still starting out as an iOS developer or you’re…
Whether you are just starting out or you’re a seasoned Android developer already, you know how difficult it is to perform seemingly simple tasks. Thankfully, many have been there before you and created Android libraries and frameworks to help you develop with ease. I asked our Android team what they thought were the essential Android…
Back in April 2020 (which feels like 20 years ago now), everyone was rightly focused on the pandemic going on, and it completely dominated the news cycle. Something that seemingly slipped a bit through the cracks was Google’s decision to follow Apple’s lead and tackle shady app subscriptions on the Google Play Store. This very…
In today’s global world, mobile app localization has become a must. When implemented well, it has helped some apps improve their app store ranking, increase downloads by up to 200%, and enhance revenue by almost 30%. Now that mobile app developers and project managers are becoming more aware of these facts, the need for a…
Congratulations, you’ve finished your development process and now you’re looking to deploy your React Native app on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. While React Native is a great cross-platform development tool, it doesn’t automate the process of deploying your app to the stores. We will take you through the steps of having…
While you can use spreadsheets as a way to manage test cases for a small team, it can quickly turn into a huge burden as your team grows and you iterate on your app. Other tools like JIRA can be configured to support test cases management, but will not offer testing-specific features. Eventually, you will…
Mobile App Intelligence tools give you access to mobile app market data. Details include everything from app downloads, user retention, and activity to historical rankings, ratings, reviews, keywords, as well as advertising campaigns, creatives, and impressions. This makes mobile app intelligence tools perfect to keep an eye on your competitors, compare your app to theirs…
Mobile commerce has been on a steady rise for the past few years, and according to Statista, it is projected to make up 72.9% of all e-commerce by 2021. And with 85% of consumers preferring apps over mobile sites and mobile apps holding the lowest cart abandonment rate at 20%, e-commerce apps are rapidly gaining…
Being a mobile product manager is a little like being a detective. A super-cool, ultra-modern, geeked out techno-detective. You’ve got to use the tools you have at your disposal to uncover clues about who your app users are and why they do what they do. You’ll have to make inferences from quantitative and qualitative data…
How do you get your app to produce the most amount of love for the least amount of back-breaking effort? What are the goals you should shoot for during the early development stages of your app? Today, let’s take a look at the idea of the minimum lovable product and discuss how you can create…