The Google Play store is the biggest source Android users go to for downloading apps, and having your app featured prominently on it ensures more downloads. This guide will show you how to submit and release your app on the Google Play store. Prerequisites Have an app! Your app will need a unique Bundle…
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 app A/B testing tools allow you to create randomized experiments using two or more variants to compare the performance of different alternatives and figure out which one works best for your mobile app. These alternatives can be anything from buttons to copy, images, buttons, and more. This can help you improve your mobile app’s…
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, but will not offer testing-specific features. Eventually, you will need…
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. 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 your…
Mobile app design is a crucial phase during development and a mobile app’s UI can make or break the application. Delivering a great user experience should be your number one priority as a mobile app developer as it has a powerful and direct impact on your user engagement, conversion rates, and consequently revenues. There are…
By Blake Sirach For many companies, software releases are stressful, nail-biting, teeth-gritting stretches of time when the whole enterprise is looking at your team and just waiting for something to go sideways: a major bug on an untested Android device, poor customer response, or unmet stakeholder expectations. But they don’t have to be that way!…
Note: This post was originally published on Oct. 22, 2018 and was updated on Dec. 3, 2018 to include more awesome examples of React Native apps. React Native is a cross-platform native mobile app development framework created by Facebook based on their React JavaScript library. React Native mainly uses JavaScript with JSX, an extension…
Thanks to the flexibility and control it gives developers over their apps, feature flag tools are seeing wide adoption in the industry. They allow for quicker development and enable you to experiment, A/B test, and personalize your app to different users. However, using an in-house solution for feature flagging can be too time-consuming to implement…
React Native lets you build mobile apps using only JavaScript. It uses the same design as React, letting you compose a rich mobile UI from declarative components. For mobile apps, a lot of the same UI elements are used across almost all apps, like icons, buttons, tabs, and forms, to name a few. That’s why instead…
Xamarin is a cross-platform mobile app development framework owned by Microsoft based on Mono, a free and open-source .NET framework, to create native apps using C#. Xamarin is the new standard for enterprise mobile development. No other platform enables businesses to reach 2.6 billion iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows devices with 100% fully native apps from a…