iOS 12 was announced in early June at the Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2018, and with it came a lot of changes, leaving developers everywhere wondering about how the new changes with the iOS 12 App Store would affect their apps. Apple’s App Store was launched ten years ago and currently has over two million…
Mobile app analytics are a developer’s best friend. They help you gain understanding about how your users’ behavior and app can be optimized to reach your goals. Without mobile app analytics, you would be trying out different things blindly without any data to back up your experiments. That’s why it’s extremely important for developers to…
Mobile app internationalization (I18n) is the process of customizing your code so that it’s ready for localization and able to be modified and released in multiple languages. Mobile app internationalization needs to come one step ahead of the mobile app localization process as your code needs to be ready to handle the localized content when…
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. With React Native, you don’t build a “mobile web app”, an “HTML5 app”, or a “hybrid app”. You build a real mobile app that’s indistinguishable from an app…
Xamarin is one of the most popular cross-platform frameworks at the moment. Xamarin development allows you to develop Android, iOS, OS X, and Windows applications using Visual Studio and C#. It allows you to share code between your Android and iOS app and compile it into native code. It also provides the advantages of native…
Deciding on a bug tracking tool to use for the development of your app can be confusing. The sheer amount of tools that have surfaced in the recent years and the similar functionalities they offer can make it difficult to determine which one will be best for you and your team. Bug trackers are essentially…
As a mobile app developer or marketer, one of your main goals will always be to increase your app’s visibility and exposure. This automatically leads to an increase in the app’s MAU (monthly active users) and, ultimately, your revenue. To really maximize your potential reach, you’ll want to customize your app to serve different users…
So you’ve received your app’s first bug report, congratulations! Now what? You have to find the best way to handle your bug reports to make sure all the effort you and your testers have made pays off. Let’s take a look at an app bug’s life cycle from the moment it is reported until it is…
What is the difference between alpha vs beta apps, and nightly vs production builds? With so many names and varying definitions across industries, identifying the purpose and process of mobile app builds can get confusing. Here, we will discuss what a build is and examine alpha, beta, nightly, and production builds: their position in the…
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…
Keeping up with the world of React and React Native can be a tough job. You need to have a reliable set of React and React Native blogs or content sources to stay up-to-date with all of the news, updates, and announcements in React. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the top React and…
When you’re a developer, staying up-to-date with the technologies, programming languages, developer tools, software practices, and application development platforms is crucial for your success. And while there is a lot of material for all the different platforms out there, it might be harder to find Xamarin blogs and content in general because it’s relatively new and not…